On November 1, 2021, Ann Pedone was named winner of the 2022 Press 53 Award for Poetry for her collection The Italian Professor’s Wife, which will be published by Press 53 on April 3, 2022.
Ann’s work is featured in BlazeVOX20, read her poetry here:
https://wp.blazevox.org/?portfolio=blazevox-20th-anniversary-special
Ann Pedone is a poet and translator in the San Francisco Bay Area. She is the author of The Medea Notebooks (spring, 2023 Etruscan Press), and The Italian Professor’s Wife (spring, 2022 Press 53), as well as the chapbooks The Bird Happened, perhaps there is a sky we don’t know: a re-imagining of sappho, Everywhere You Put Your Mouth, Sea [break], and DREAM/WORK. Her work has recently appeared in The American Journal of Poetry, Narrative, Chicago Quarterly Review, Carve Magazine, and Conduit.
Buy The Italian Professor’s Wife by Ann Pedone
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