Poets with Italian Surnames

Though I was rooting for the French, Vacation House, in its eternal wisdom, has arranged itself in perfect form to celebrate Italy's world championship with readings from two phenomenal poets who just happen to have Italian surnames. Come McNally Robinson tomorrow [Monday] and revel. No headbutts, i promise.

SARAH MANGUSO is the author of two poetry collections, *Siste Viator* and *The Captain Lands in Paradise.* Her first story collection, *Hard to Admit and Harder to Escape,* is forthcoming from McSweeney's Books in 2007. She teaches at the Pratt Institute and lives in Brooklyn.

Find work here, here, and here.

PAUL VIOLI's eleventh book of poems, *Overnight*, will be published this
winter. He is the recipient of the Zabel Award from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters and numerous other poetry awards. He teaches at Columbia and
in the MFA program at New School.

Find work here, here and here
Paul also has a modern american poet's page, for those of you who are planning on writing a paper about the reading...