Writing Your Way Home with Daniele Pantano

12303 USF Genshaft Drive,Tampa FL 33620

13 September, 2022

Description

The Humanities Institute welcomes USF alumnus, Daniele Pantano for a week of class visits, lectures, and readings. This will be Pantano’s first visit to USF in fifteen years and will coincide with the publication of his newest poetry collection: Home for Difficult Children (Broken Sleep Books/ Black Lawrence Press, 2022). Join us on Tuesday, September 13 at 6:00 PM in CWY 206 for a reading and Q&A with the guest speaker. Refreshments and a book signing will follow the event. Pantano is a Swiss poet, essayist, literary translator, artist, critic, editor, and publisher. His poems, essays, and translations have appeared widely, and his poems have been translated into a dozen languages, including Albanian, Farsi, French, German, Italian, Kurdish, Russian, Slovenian, and Spanish. His conceptual and visual literatures as well as his noise poetry have been exhibited nationally and internationally. After graduating from the USF Departments of English and Philosophy, as well as the Honors College (now the Judy Genshaft Honors College), Pantano taught and directed the Writing Center at the University of South Florida. He later served as the Visiting Poet-in-Residence at Florida Southern College, and taught at Edge Hill University, where he was Director of Creative Writing and Reader in Poetry and Literary Translation. He is currently Associate Professor (Reader) and Programme Leader for the MA Creative Writing at the University of Lincoln. The event is open to students, faculty, staff, and the public. For questions about this event, parking, or accommodations, contact Jade V. at [email protected]. Visit our website for more information on our Fall events: www.humanities-institute.usf.edu. Follow the USF Humanities Institute on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @usfhuman for event updates and announcements. Join our newsletter mailing list.