Peter Covino

Peter Covino is a poet-translator-editor whose most recent book, What Sex Is Death? Dario Bellezza, Selected Poems (2025) won the Wisconsin Press Prize for Poetry in Translation. He is an associate professor of English at the University of Rhode Island and author of three poetry collections including, The Right Place to Jump and Cut Off the Ears of Winter, both from W. Michigan UP; and a co-edited volume of essays on Italian American Culture. His awards include a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellowship and the PEN/American Osterweil Award.