Paola Loreto

Paola Loreto is the author of three books of poetry, L’acero rosso (The Red Maple, Crocetti, Milan, 2002), Addio al decoro (A Farewell to Decorum, LietoColle, Como, 2006), and La memoria del corpo (The Body’s Memory, forthcoming in 2007 by Crocetti). She has published poems in literary journals and magazines, such as ClanDestino, Ciminiera, La Mosca di Milano, La colpa di scrivere and Kritya. Some of her poems can be listened to at the Fonoscaffale della Poesia Italiana www.wordtheque.com; in English at Kritya. Her awards include the Premio Tronto (2003), the Premio Benedetto Croce (2003), a residency at the Centre de Poésie & Traduction of the Royaumont Foundation in Paris, a Copeland Fellowship (Amherst College, MA). She was a curator of LucaniaPoesiaFestival (2005) and of Suoni e Voci dal Vulture (2006). Since 2007 she has been a member of the jury of the Città di San Pellegrino Terme Festival poetry prize.

Paola was born in Bergamo (Italy), and is Assistant Professor of American Literature at the University of Milan. As a scholar, she has published two books, one on Emily Dickinson and one on Robert Frost, and has written a number of articles and essays on North-American and Caribbean literatures. She has translated poems by Emily Dickinson, William Carlos Williams, Philip Levine and Amy Newman. She is currently working on a book-length study of Derek Walcott’s book, Tiepolo’s Hound.