Paola Di Gennaro’s ‘Symbiotic’ Poetry. A Conversation

DOI: https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/7144
Keywords: Paola Di Gennaro, Poetry, simpoetry, literature and science, genre hybridization

Abstract

This interview with poet Paola Di Gennaro explores several epistemological aspects related to the so-called “sympoetry”: the intersection of literature and science, the relationship between humans and natural/technological environments, the use of collective pronouns as new lyrical subjectivities, genre hybridization.

 

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Author Biographies

Paola Di Gennaro, University of Suor Orsola Benincasa - Naples

Paola Di Gennaro was born in Naples, where she teaches English literature. She has lived in London, Tokyo and Paris, and has published essays in the fields of English and Comparative lìLiterature. Her first collection of poems in English, Destiny Please, was published in 2010. In 2016 she collaborated on the Premio Napoli poetry workshop at Secondigliano prison. Ancora storia (finalist for the 2021 Premio Nuovi Argomenti) was published in 2017. Basi (Industria&Letteratura) was published in 2024.

Beatrice Seligardi, University of Bologna

Beatrice Seligardi is Tenure-track Researcher in Literary Criticism and Comparative Literature at the University of Bologna. Her work focuses on literary theory and the relationships between literature and visual studies. She has authored three monographs and numerous essays published in journals and anthologies. She has also written a book of (non)poetry, Piccole immagini complete (2024), about which she speaks as little as possible.

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Published
2026-06-15
How to Cite
Di Gennaro, P., & Seligardi, B. (2026). Paola Di Gennaro’s ‘Symbiotic’ Poetry. A Conversation. Between, 16(31), 203-222. https://doi.org/10.13125/2039-6597/7144
Issue
Vol 16 No 31 (2026): Sympoetry: Morphologies of Global Romanticism
Section
Conversation Pieces / Interviews: Ed. Massimo Fusillo
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