Master class with Kiki Petrosino: "Sweet New Styles: Petrarch & Calvocoressi"

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Join poet Kiki Petrosino for her master class: "Sweet New Styles: Petrarch & Calvocoressi" as she compares poems by Petrarch with new work by Gabrielle Calvocoressi.

Kiki Petrosino is the author of four collections of poetry: White Blood: A Lyric of Virginia (2020), a New York Times New & Noteworthy selection included on Publishers Weekly’s “Anti-Racist Reading List”; Witch Wife, a New York Times Best Book of 2017; Hymn for the Black Terrific, (2013); and Fort Red Border (2009), all from Sarabande Books. Her poems and essays have appeared in The Nation, The New York Times, Poetry, and the Best American Poetry series. The recipient of a Pushcart Prize and fellowships from the NEA and the Kentucky Arts Council, she is a Professor of Poetry at the University of Virginia.

Zoom event link here. 

Handouts:

• Excerpt from Rocket Fantastic 
• Petrarch 190