Fall 2026 Lecture Series:
Cultural, Civic, and Church Life: Prospects for Renewal

Join renowned poets and translators A. M. Juster and Andrew Frisardi for a a discussion of poetry, translation, and the significance of Petrarch for our age, and a reading of Juster’s fresh and lyrical translation of the Canzoniere (Norton, 2026, introduction by Frisardi).

A.M. Juster is the former poetry editor of Plough and First Things. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Paris Review and The Hudson Review, and his work has won the Richard Wilbur Award, The Barnstone Translation Prize, and other recognition. His thirteenth book is Petrarch’s Canzoniere (W.W. Norton 2026). For his nonliterary work, he has won The Alzheimer’s Association’s Humanitarian of the Year Award, the Robert Ball Lifetime Achievement Award of the National Academy of Social Insurance, and other honors.

Andrew Frisardi is a poet, translator, independent scholar, and editor. A Guggenheim Fellow, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Hudson Review, The New Yorker, and many other publications. Frisardi’s annotated translations of Dante’s Vita nova and the Convivio were published by Northwestern UP and Cambridge UP, respectively. He wrote the introduction to A. M. Juster’s new translation of Petrarch’s Canzoniere (W. W. Norton, 2026). Born and raised in Massachusetts, he has lived in central Italy for many years.
Image: An Allegory of Passion by Hans Holbein the Younger, featuring an inscription from the Canzoniere; courtesy Getty Open Access Program