University of Kansas professor Patrizio Ceccagnoli shares poems from his new collection of translated poems by the poet Milo de Angelis, Last Stops of the Night Journey. Joining him in reading is Lawrence poet and fellow professor Megan Kaminski. Books will be available for sale and signing.

Patrizio Ceccagnoli is a literary critic and translator, managing editor of Italian Poetry Review, and Associate Professor of Italian at the University of Kansas. For his co-translations of the poetry of Milo De Angelis (with Susan Stewart), he was nominated for the American Literary Translators Association Annual Award in 2014. He has translated several books by Anne Carson into Italian and one poetry collection by Michael Ondaatje (Garzanti, 2025). He also edited previously unpublished material by F. T. Marinetti (including the first edition of Venezianella e Studentaccio for the Oscar Mondadori series). His co-translation, with Susan Stewart, of Antonella Anedda’s Historiae received the Derek Walcott Prize and the 2024 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award.

Megan Kaminski is Poet and Professor of Environmental Studies at the University of Kansas, where her teaching and research live at the intersection of poetic practice, environmental advocacy, and community care. She is interested in the ways that place calls us into relationships of care for land, water, and the various human and nonhuman communities that reside there, and in the ways that call reaches across political and cultural differences. She is the author of three books of poetry, most recently Gentlewomen (Noemi Press).