2024.10.23 Alessandro De Francesco:
A Reading & Conversation

The Organism for Poetic Research, the Modern and Contemporary Colloquium, and the Program in Poetics & Theory warmly invite you to a poetry reading and conversation with Alessandro De Francesco and his translator Max Norman on Wednesday October 23rd 6:00 PM, in the Event Space at 244 Greene St. 

Light refreshments will be served! Please RSVP via this link

Alessandro De Francesco is a poet, artist, and essayist based in Turin. He holds a PhD in Poetics from the University of Paris-Sorbone, and has taught at the European Graduate School, the Sorbonne, the École Normale Supérieure, and elsewhere. He currently teaches at the Bern Academy of the Arts and the Albertina Academy of Fine Arts in Turin. His work has been featured at the Kelly Writers House at the University of Pennsylvania, Fondation Louis Vuitton, the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Strasbourg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Berlin University of the Arts, and the Kunsthalle Basel, among other venues. His recent books include: Continuum: Writings on Poetry as Artistic Practice (Uitgeverij, 2015), Remote Vision: Poetry 1999–2015 (punctum, 2016), ((( (punctum, 2021), And Agglomerations, of Trees (Mousse Publishing, 2022) and Continuum 2: Writings 2015–2022 (punctum, 2024).

Max Norman is an Associate Editor at The Drift, and writes about literature, art, and culture for various publications including The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal. He was formerly a culture correspondent for The Economist. He trained in Comparative Literature at Yale College, and completed his graduate studies in Modern Languages and Classics at Oxford and Cambridge.