Peter Covino is a poet, translator and editor. Covino’s recent book of translation, What Sex Is Death? (University of Wisconsin Press, 2025) by Dario Bellezza, won the Wisconsin Press Prize for Poetry in Translation, selected by Geoffrey Brock, and the 2025 Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize. Covino is also the author of the full-length poetry collections The Right Place to Jump (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2012) and Cut off the Ears of Winter (New Issues Poetry and Prose, 2005), winner of the 2007 PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award.

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