Kimberly Campanello

UPCOMING EVENTS

• Women in Translation Month Pop-Up with Kimberly Campanello, Morgana Rubini and Aea Varfis-van Warmelo, Penguin Classics & Shreeji Newsagents Marylebone [Aug 28]

• Use the Words You Have at Well Read, Lisbon [Sept 10]

• Waterstones York Presents...Tidings: Poetry Quarterly featuring Kimberly Campanello, City Screen Picture House (The Basement), York [Sept 22]

• The Seacroft Canto at BBC Contains Strong Language Festival, curated by the National Poetry Centre, Salford [Sept 27]

• Poetry & translation with Nicoletta Asciuto for Ireland's EU Presidency Cultural Programme, Fingal County Council, Ireland [Oct 3]

• Poetry@Leeds and An Interesting Detail at Ilkley Literature Festival, Ilkley [Oct 11]

  I am now scheduling 2027 events. Contact Lewinsohn Literary or use the form on this site.

  For information on the activities of Poetry@Leeds, which I direct at the University of Leeds, see here.

PREVIOUS – 2025-2026

• Performance, Poetry Ireland Review Launch, University of Notre Dame Dublin Global Gateway, [Jan 21]

• Lecture-performance, ‘Descending into Detail: Meanwhile in Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K’, University College Cork Centre for Dante Studies Public Lecture Series [Feb 17]

• Lecture-performance, ‘A floating thing, a seed with wings: A performance from This Knot a new version of Dante’s Commedia with the Poet K’, Florida Gulf Coast University, [Feb 26 & 27]

• Northern Lights IN/FORM with Caroline Bergvall, Nasser Hussain, JR Carpenter, and more, HEART Centre, Headingley, Leeds [March 28]

• launch of An Interesting Detail (Bloomsbury Poetry), Rise @ Bluebird Bakery, Acomb, York [May 9]

• ‘Use the Words You Have to Get the Words You Need’, EUTERPE SUMMIT Susan Stanford Friedman Memorial Keynote performance-lecture, University of York [May 20 — open to the public] Reading with Sascha Aurora Akhtar, University of Sheffield Centre for Poetry and Poetics [May 22]

• lunchtime reading for York Centre for Writing, with Hasib Hourani [June 5]

• Use the Words You Have launch party (novel with Somesuch Editions) – [7 pm, June 12, Reference Point, London]Community Lyric (with Verity Spot and Anthony Vahni Capildeo) public reading at The Horse Hospital to coincide with Rethinking Lyric Communities [London, June 21; see here]

• Ledbury Poetry Festival:

  • Doing Dante Differently: Two Performances (with Philip Terry) [June 28]

  • Poetry & Transformation (with Sascha Akhtar) [June 29]

• ‘Disarticulating the Digital: Extraordinary Power tra i Confini’, a lecture-performance, Society for Italian Studies themed conference: Italian Studies at the Digital Turn. Practice, Methods, Interdisciplinarity, University of Leeds [June 24 — open to the public]

• A Kaleidoscope of Voices: the Wor(l)ds of Poetry with Aifric Mac Aodha, Silvio Perrella, Kimberly Campanello, Gian Maria Annovi, moderated by Viviana Fiorentino, Festival of Italian and Irish Literature in Ireland – FIILI, Instituto Italiano di Cultura, Dublin, Regent House-Trinity College Dublin; Italian & English w/simultaneous translation [Sept 27] – MORE INFORMATION

• Use the Words You Have (novel) with Daisy Hildyard (Emergency, Fitzcarraldo) chaired by Barry Pierce, Waterstones, London Islington [Sept 30] – TICKETS

• An Interesting Detail (poetry collection) at Kildare Readers Festival with Jessica Traynor chaired by Catherine Gander [Maynooth, Oct 14] – TICKETS

• Use the Words You Have (novel) in conversation with Jason Allen-Paisant, Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds [July 3]

• Use the Words You Have (novel) and Caleb Klaces (Mr Outside, Prototype Books), Rise @ Bluebird Bakery, Acomb, York [Nov 12]

• SNOW & THIS KNOT, with Jason Allen-Paisant HEART Centre, Leeds [Jan 21]

• An Interesting Detail at More Song Bradford [Feb 5]

• THIS PLACE, TO ALL PLACES LINKED: JOURNEYING WITH DANTE, ChapelFM Arts Centre Leeds, [Feb 27]

• An Interesting Detail at York Literature Festival [March 8]

• MOTHERBABYHOME and Use the Words You Have at Uppsala University [March 13]

• Dante Day, University of York [March 25]

• World Premiere Screening of The Seacroft Canto: A Documentary, Leeds Literature Festival in partnership with the National Poetry Centre, Damselfish Productions, Chapel FM Arts Centre, Poetry@Leeds and the Cultural Institute at the University of Leeds [June 14]

• Ledbury Poetry Festival, Use the Words You Have (Kimberly Campanello) & A Private Man (Stephanie Sy-Quia) [June 27]