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Shout out to Maria Giura whose workshop was recently featured in @StatenIslandAdvance: "Memoir writing workshops include how to capture food and cooking – the Italian way"
https://www.silive.com/dining/2022/06/memoir-writing-workshops-include-how-to-capture-food-and-cooking-the-italian-way.html
What My Father Taught Me
What My Father Taught Me Poetry. Women's Studies. In WHAT MY FATHER TAUGHT ME, Maria Giura writes richly and candidly about growing up Italian-American Catholic from her earliest days as the daughter of immigrant parents and a workaholic father to her coming of age and onward int...
This week's Feature Friday is "Wonderful Disaster" by Rosemary Cappello!
Order your copy with Small Press Distribution: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781599541471/wonderful-disaster.aspx
This book blooms. The poet takes us on a walk through time, from the old neighborhood with its palimpsest of paese, to the mature juicy voice of the lover poet who plays piano nocturnes and faces the night penning love poems with "the pleasant flutter of an eager heart."
—Annie Rachele Lanzillotto
Rosemary Cappello is a poet, painter, prose writer, community organizer, and editor whose work has appeared in such venues as Philadelphia Poets, VIA:Voices in Italian Americana, Poet Lore, Avanti Popolo, Schuylkill Valley Journal, Poetry Ink, and Autumn Sky, to name a few.
Also find your copy of "Wonderful Disaster" at Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/wonderful-disaster/9781599541471
West Trade Review Online Exclusives: Summer 2022 Collection
West Trade Review: Fearless. Crafted. Impassioned.
Oggi alle ore 18: presentazione del libro di Sara Fruner “La notte del bene” edizioni Bollati Boringhieri. Alla presenza dell’autrice modera Gian Pietro Gentilucci Leonardi, studioso indipendente di letterature anglofone e curatore del sito Queerographies. #sara fruner #bollati
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This week's Feature Friday is "Only Sons" by Fred Misurella!
Order your copy of the book from Small Press Distribution: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781599540429/only-sons.aspx
"Only Sons" begins at an Italian-American wedding in the 60s and reaches into the new millennium through the story of two families, the Salvaggis and Maresciallos, living in the mountains of northeastern Pennsylvania.
Read more about it in The Christian Science Monitor: https://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0415/p09s01-coop.html
Fred Misurella is a writer, Fulbright Scholar, lover of newspapers, books, movies, and most things French or Italian (especially novels and opera). He has published fiction and nonfiction in many journals, including The New York Times and Village Voice.
Keep up with Fred here: https://www.fredmisurella.com/index.htm
And find "Only Sons" on Bookshop:
https://bookshop.org/books/only-sons/9781599540429
Submissions are still open for the 2022 Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize — with judges George Guida, Maria Famà, and distinguished judge Kathleen Ossip.
Learn more and submit here: https://bordigherapress.submittable.com/submit
Coming soon to Bryant Park!
https://bryantpark.org/events/2022/07/12/poetry
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This week's Feature Friday is "An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus: October 13-14, 1992" by Robert Viscusi.
There are only a limited supply remaining of the original printing, buy your copy from Small Press Distribution here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/1884419003/an-oration-upon-the-most-recent-death-of-christopher-columbus-october-1314-1992.aspx
Viscusi's ORATION, written in response to protests of the 1992 Columbus Day, eloquently takes into account all the complexities and contradictions of the figure of Columbus.
“Bob Viscusi's Columbus rhapsody is vivid vernacular voluble and full of nervous verve.”
—Allen Ginsberg
Robert Viscusi, Ph.D., was a Professor of English & executive officer of the Wolfe Institute for the Humanities at Brooklyn College. He was a novelist, critic, scholar of Italian American literature and culture, and author of the epic poem “Ellis Island,” among many other works.
Watch Viscusi read his ORATION here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVdOt7pbKRg
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Get to know the people behind a growing movement! This Thursday: Italian American Writers Association - https://mailchi.mp/iambooksboston.com/events-5-24-22
“Grief does not have five stages. Grief is the collapse of your formerly level world into a fractured mountain scape…. The stages are an image in words. A sketched-in staircase to hold onto when a thousand things, seen and unseen, threaten to pitch you lower…. Above all, we need to be open to the strangeness of things, on guard against the deadening assumption that our assumptions will hold.” —from the Note from the Editor, by Greg Harris. Visit Pangyrus.com to get your copy. #litmag #pangyrus #stories #poetry #essays #comics
This week's Feature Friday is "Resistenza Rap: Music, Struggle, and (Perhaps) Poetry/How Hip-Hop Changed My Life" by Francesco "Kento" Carlo.
Order your copy from Small Press Distribution here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781599541280/resistenza-rap-music-struggle-and-perhaps-poetryhow-hiphop-changed-my-life.aspx
The odyssey recounted within these pages traverses time and space to bear witness to an artist's development and commitment to political activism. Kento's sonic resistance offers a model in which an informed individual's action and artistry can contribute to a larger movement.
Francesco "Kento" Carlo is a rapper & activist from Reggio Calabria, winner of the Premio Cultura Contro le Mafie, and promoter of Hip Hop Smash the Wall, a project in collaboration & in solidarity with the Palestinian scene. He is on the board of LIPS—Lega Italiana Poetry Slam.
Learn more and follow on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/francescokento
And watch his interview with John D Calandra Italian American Institute: https://twitter.com/ItalicsTV/status/1093870307939635202?s=20&t=NiwzIORnXg9Gv9MX3uG0iQ
Join us Italian American Writers Association featuring Connie Post & Jeff Santosuosso SA May 21 @ 6 ... The Greek-American Writers' Association ... Jeff Santosuosso half #Greek! Bring on the ouzo and the poetry ...Please register @ iawa.net
This week's Feature Friday is "Moustache Pete is Dead: Evviva Baffo Pietro!" by Fred L Gardaphe.
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A collection of newspaper columns written over a four-year span, Gardaphé offers a glimpse into the world of the Italian immigrant. Through Pete, we see the difficulties many immigrants & their progeny have had, negotiating the dominant culture's (mis)understandings of an immigrant's culture of origin.
Fred L. Gardaphé is a Distinguished Professor in English and Italian American Studies at Queens College, and the John D Calandra Italian American Institute. Previously, he helped to create the Italian American Studies program at Stony Brook University, which he directed from 1998 to 2008.
Gardaphé is also Associate Editor of Fra Noi, an Italian American monthly newspaper, editor of the Series in Italian American Studies at SUNY Press, and co-founder of Bordighera Press.
Learn more about Fred Gardaphé's work here: https://calandrainstitute.org/the-institute/fred-gardaphe/
Also find your copy of "Moustache Pete is Dead" from Bookshop, along with other recent titles: https://bookshop.org/lists/books-by-fred-l-gardaphe
Our poetry bestsellers for April have arrived!
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This week's Feature Friday is "The Queen of Queens" by Jennifer Martelli.
Order your copy of this poetry collection from Small Press Distribution: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781599541808/the-queen-of-queens.aspx
In this tenacious collection, the drugs, music, rocket crash, and Martelli's “queens”—from Geraldine Ferraro to Madonna—embody the struggle with and resistance against gender oppression & ongoing threats to reproductive rights, while reminding us of the power of one strong woman.
Jennifer Martelli is the author of "My Tarantella," awarded an Honorable Mention from @IASA1966, selected as a “Must Read” by the Massachusetts Center for the Book, and named as a finalist for the Housatonic Book Award from WCSU MFA.
Order your copy here: https://www.spdbooks.org/Products/9781599541303/my-tarantella.aspx
Keep up with Jennifer Martelli’s work here: http://www.jennmartelli.com/
Also find the collection from I Am Books: https://iambooksboston.com/product/the-queen-of-queens/
And Bookshop: https://bookshop.org/books/the-queen-of-queens/9781599541808?aid=32433&listref=via-folios
ICYMI: Jennifer Martelli's poetry is blossoming all over!
In Talking Writing: https://talkingwriting.com/woman-who-visited-her-cornfield
In Scoundrel Time: http://scoundreltime.com/letter-written
May 2, 2022 Category: PoemsDistractionSurrealismPoetry by Jennifer Martelli The Woman Who Visited Her Cornfield for Cindy Veach I lay in bed too long into the morning, scrolling my phone to find out who squeezed the last bit of joy into the jelly-jar tumbler, the one with cartoons frosted all over ...
On May 26th at 7 PM, catch Maria Lisella, Julia Lisella, and Jenn Martelli discussing the work of Italian American Writers Association and building community in New York and Boston with I Am Books.
Register here!
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