IPSA
Italian Poetry Society of America

The Italian Poetry Society of America is a not-for-profit Cultural Institution. Its fundamental aim is the promotion and support of Italian poetry in the United States. To this aim, the IPSA will:

• Stimulate the study for Italian poetry through courses, seminars, readings, book presentations, conferences, all aiming at reaching the America public interested in contemporary Italian literature and culture;

• promote the translation of important books of Italian poetry which are still unavailable in English;

• invite Italian poets to hold seminars on specific aspects of their poetry;

• organize exhibitions of manuscripts by 20th-century Italian poets;

• sponsor the IPSA literary prize, awarded yearly to a poetry book in Italian;

• found a library of/on 20th-century Italian poetry, and an archive of Italian poetry.

For more information contact: Prof. Luigi Fontanella
                                                                Department of European Languages
                                                                Stony Brook University
                                                                Stony Brook, NY 11794-5359
                                                                tel: (631) 632-7448/7440
                                                                e-mail: lfontanella@notes.cc.sunysb.edu