The poet & translator Geoffrey Brock will be visiting the University of Connecticut with a virtual reading and Q&A event via Zoom on November 11th at 5 PM. Geoffrey Brock is the author of two books of poems, the editor of The FSG Book of Twentieth-Century Italian Poetry, and the translator of numerous volumes of poetry and prose, most recently Giovanni Pascoli’s Last Dream (World Poetry Books, 2019), which received the 2020 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize from the Academy of American Poets, and Giuseppe Ungaretti’s Allegria (Archipelago, 2020). He teaches in the MFA program at Arkansas, where he edits The Arkansas International. This event is co-sponsored by World Poetry Books, the UConn Program in Literary Translation, and the UConn Creative Writing Program.