Conversation with Jennifer Scappettone(10/3/21)

Exile and Creativity: The Two Amelia Rossellis, at the Institute of Italian Culture, NYC: Amelia Rosselli’s Disintegrated Cantons: Songs of a Community to Come

Jennifer Scappettone works at the crossroads of writing, translation, and scholarly research, on the page and off. She is the author of the cross-genre verse books: From Dame Quickly The Republic of Exit 43: Outtakes & Scores from an Archaeology and Pop-Up Opera of the Corporate Dump, and of the critical study Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice.

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Jennifer Scappetone's "From Corpse to Specter: Venice As Antagonist and Emblem of Modernity" Jennifer Scappetone is a poet, translator, and scholar. Killing the Moonlight: Modernism in Venice, her study of the outmoded city of lagoons as a crucible for twentieth-century aesthetic and political experiments, was published by Columbia University Press in 2014 and is a finalist for the Modernist Studies Association's annual book award.

in 3 parts comprising the following poets in order of appearance: Part 1 Mark Mirsky, Michael McClure, Maryrose Larkin, Peter Lamborn Wilson, Robert Kelly, Elaine Equi, Charles Amirkhanian, Charles Stein, Nancy Kuhl, Maria Damon, Vyt Bakaitis, Debrah Morkun, Eleni Stecopoulos, Lamont Brown Steptoe, Nada Gordon, Sam Truitt, Elizabeth Bryant, Carlos Soto-Roman, Jena Osman, Vincent Katz, Tinker Greene, Gerard Malanga, Alana Siegel, Jeffrey Robinson, Dorota Czerner, Barbara Blatner, Kenneth Irby Part 2: Jonas Mekas, Don Byrd, Jennifer Scappettone, Mark Mirsky, Burt Kimmelman, Hank Lazer, Sara Larsen, Lori Anderson Moseman, Ryan Eckes, Geof Huth, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Chris Funkhouser, Elaine Equi, Anna Moschovakis, Clark Coolidge, Jesse Glass, Rochelle Owens, Jerome Sala, David Brazil, Richard Deming, Rae Armantrout, Jacques Roubaud, Maureen Thorson, Joan Murray, Anselm Berrigan, David Wolach, Peter Cook & Kenny Lerner Part 3 Michael McClure, Amy Catanzano, Basil King, Jennifer Bartlett, Nancy Frye Huth, Marilyn Stablein, Michael Slosek, Robert Mittenthal, Bob Perleman, Deborah Poe, Chris Piuma, Kimberly Lyons, Frank Sherlock, Rachel Levitsky, D. H. Melhem, CAConrad, Patricia Spears Jones, George Economou, Lynn Behrendt, Julian Semilian, Rebecca Wolff, Robert Kelly, Will Alexander, Alana Siegel, Barbara Kremen, Kythe Heller, Torben Ulrich

Jennifer Scappettone, Professor of English at the University of Chicago, discusses the future of poetic expression. In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group.

Presentation of the first edition of: Venezianella e Studentaccio (1944) (Oscar Mondadori, 2013) by Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Edited by Paolo Valesio and Patrizio Ceccagnoli and Modernitalia (Peter Lang Publishing, 2012) a collection of essays by Jeffrey Schnapp edited by Francesca Santovetti Poetry reading and discussion with: Paolo Valesio (Columbia University)

Jennifer Scappettone reads as part of the 2012 Poets Forum Awards Ceremony. Scappettone was awarded the Academy's Raiziss/de Palchi Book Prize in 2012 for her translation of Amelia Rosselli's Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose." Recorded at the New School in New York City.

Mary Jo Bang (author of Elegy and the recent variations on Dante's Inferno) and Jennifer Scappettone (translator of the award-winning Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli and author of From Dame Quickly) explore the ways that their translation projects intersect with and enlarge their own poetics.

Book Presentation and Panel Discussion: "WHERE THE I IS THE PUBLIC": Amelia Rosselli in Translation A musician, musicologist, and self-defined “poet of research,” Amelia Rosselli (Paris 1930– Rome 1996) was one of the most important poets to emerge from Europe in the aftermath of World War II. Following a childhood and adolescence spent in exile from Fascist Italy between France, England, and the United States, Rosselli was driven to express the hopes and devastations of the postwar epoch through her demanding and defamiliarizing lines. Rosselli’s body of work synthesizes a hybrid literary heritage in which playful inventions across Italian, English, and French coexist with unadorned social critique. Rosselli aspired to compose stanzas characterized by a new objectivity and collective orientation, “where the I is the public, where the I is things, where the I is the things that happen.” Having chosen Italy as an “ideal fatherland,” Rosselli rendered the public multiple; she wrote searching and often discomposing verse that redefined the domain of Italian poetics and, in the process, irrevocably changed the Italian language. On the occasion of the publication of Locomotrix: Selected Poetry and Prose of Amelia Rosselli (University of Chicago Press, 2012), the book's editor and translator, Jennifer Scappettone (University of Chicago), presented aspects of her work on the formal and political research of Rosselli's oeuvre in conversation with Teresa Fiore (Montclair State University) and Gian Maria Annovi (University of Denver). Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò New York University April 5, 2012

Jennifer Scappettone, Editor of the book, leads a roundtable discussion on Amelia Rosselli's poetry. Reading of selected poems by Antonio Riccardi, Managing Editor of Mondadori Libri, and Jennifer Scappettone.

Filmed by a tripod on a Kodak 103EKZi8 at a July 4th celebration at the American Academy in Rome, July 2011.

Jennifer Scappettone est l'auteur de From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009), Err-Residence (Bronze Skull, 2007) et Beauty [Is the New Absurdity] (dusi/e kollectiv, 2007), et l'éditrice de Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse (Belladonna, 2009), qui rassemble ses écrits ainsi que ceux de Lyn Hejinian et Etel Adnan.

Jennifer Scappettone est l'auteur de From Dame Quickly (Litmus Press, 2009), Err-Residence (Bronze Skull, 2007) et Beauty [Is the New Absurdity] (dusi/e kollectiv, 2007), et l'éditrice de Belladonna Elders Series #5: Poetry, Landscape, Apocalypse (Belladonna, 2009), qui rassemble ses écrits ainsi que ceux de Lyn Hejinian et Etel Adnan.

"A Language for Every Latitude: The Poetry of Amelia Rosselli" - an international conference organized by Prof. Nelson Moe and hosted by the Center for Trans...