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IAWA-Boston Presents

 TIMOTHY GAGER & JANET SYLVESTER

Saturday, March 18, 2023

6-8 PM EST at  I AM BOOKS 124 SALEM STREET, BOSTON

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Janet Sylvester’s poems have been awarded the Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize, a Pushcart Prize, a PEN Discovery Award, and the Grolier Poetry Prize. Her previous two books, The Mark of Flesh (Norton) and That Mulberry Wine (Wesleyan), are now joined by And Not to Break (Bordighera Press). She teaches at Harvard Extension/Summer School and Endicott College.

Timothy Gager is a poet and fiction writer. His latest novel is Joe the Salamander. In 2023, Big Table Publishing published twenty years of his selected and new poetry and fiction, The Best of Timothy Gager. He hosts the Dire Literary Series and has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, the Massachusetts Book Award, The Best of the Web, The Best Small Fictions Anthology and has been read on National Public Radio.

Three Rules of IAWA:

Read each other, Write or be written, Buy our books

 IAWA New York Resumes 2^nd Saturdays

March 11, 2023 @ 2:30 PM @ Jefferson Market Library

425 6^th Ave, near 9^th St. 

Willa Cather Room

Featuring

Nick Matros & Frank Perero

& Open Mic

Saturday, March 11 @ 2:30 [sign up in LOBBY]-4:45 pm

Please wait in the lobby or Adult reading rooms until the room is open.

Adults are not allowed to be in the Children’s room.

Nick Matros is currently at work on a project tentatively titled Kidnapped by Communists: or How I learned to speak Italian. His poetry has appeared in Italian Americana, Feile-Festa, Avanti Popolo, Sweet Lemons 2, and many other publications.

He teaches Italian and Spanish language in Suffolk County, NY and has served as an IAWA board member. He earned a BFA in dramatic writing from NYU and an MA in Italian literature from Middlebury College.

Frank Perero will read from his inaugural collection Drive Through the Night  (Page Publishing, 2022), some of which appeared in The Third Seven Towers Anthology.  His poetry is based on the balladeer tradition of Robert W Service and epic ballads as The Village Blacksmith and The Highwayman. He earned a BA in creative writing at Queens College and a Masters in Rehabilitation Counseling from St. John’s University. Recently, he has worked in local politics.

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3 rules of IAWA: Read Each Other, Write or Be Written, Buy Each Other’s Books!

IAWA-Boston Presents

JULIET GRAMES & OLIVIA KATE CERRONE

Saturday, February 18, 2023

6-8 PM EST at  I AM BOOKS 124 SALEM STREET, BOSTON

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JULIET GRAMES is the author of The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2019), which was shortlisted for the New England Book Award and the Connecticut Book Award and which won the Cetraro Prize for Southern Italian Literature. Her second novel, The Lost Boy of Santa Chionia, will be published by Knopf in summer 2024.

OLIVIA KATE CERRONE is the author of The Hunger Saint, a historical novella. Winner of the Crab Orchard Review’s Jack Dyer Fiction Prize, she’s currently completing Displaced, which won the 2022 Novel Slices Contest and was longlisted for both the DISQUIET Literary Prize and the Masters Review Novel Excerpt Contest.

IAWA New York

Resumes 2^nd Saturdays

@ Jefferson Market Library

425 6^th Ave, near 9^th St.

Willa Cather Salon

Featuring

Antoinette Carone & Margaret Saraco

& Open Mic

Saturday, FEBRUARY 11 @ 2:30 [sign up]-4:45 pm

Antoinette Carone’s newest novel Hotel of the Siren (Scantic Press, 2022) follows Siren Shore, (Shakespeare & Company 2019); and her first book, Ciao Napoli: A Scrapbook of Wandering in Naples (CreateSpace, 2014) is based on her year of living in Naples. Recent work appears in Ovunque Siamo, Foxglove Journal, Ellipsis ‘Zine, Fudoki Magazine, and Real Women Write: Living on COVID Time. Carone is a member of IAWA, New York Writers’ Coalition, Women’s National Book Association; and is on the Board of the American Italian Cultural Roundtable.

Margaret R. Sáraco is a poet who enjoys composing as well as performing her poetry. Her Pushcart Prize-nominated work appears in her first poetry collection, If There Is No Wind (Human Error Publishing, 2022). Her work appears in Kerning, Moonstone Press, The Path, Peregrine Journal, Ovunque Siamo. She has written non-fiction articles and columns on contemporary life, music, health and feminism for a variety of publications. She was a semi-finalist in the Laura Boss Narrative Book Contest. https://linktr.ee/margaretsaraco

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IAWA-Boston Presents

LISA DeSIRO & DIANE JOSEFOWICZ

Saturday, January 21, 2023

6-8 PM EST at  I AM BOOKS 124 SALEM STREET, BOSTON

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A novelist, historian, and editor, Diane Josefowicz grew up outside Providence, where she now lives with her family. Ready, Set, Oh is her first novel. Her second, L’Air du Temps (1985) is forthcoming in 2024 from Regal House. She serves as reviews editor at Necessary Fiction, associate fiction editor at West Trade Review, and director of communications for Swing Left Rhode Island, a progressive organization focused on electoral work.

Lisa DeSiro is both a writer and a musician. Her collections include Simple as a Sonnet (Kelsay Books, 2021), Labor (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), and Grief Dreams (White Knuckle Press, 2017). She is a professional accompanist and also does freelance editorial work. Read more about her at thepoetpianist.com.

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Read each other, Write or be written, Buy our books

 IAWA New York

Resumes 2^nd Saturdays

Jan. 14, 2023 @ 2:30 PM

@ Jefferson Market Library

425 6^th Ave, near 9^th St.

With Award-winning Authors:

David Messineo & Camilla Trinchieri

& Open Mic

Saturday, JANUARY 14 @ 2:30-4:30 pm

New Jersey poet David Messineo kicks off our 2023 season by launching his Golden Anniversary Tour this afternoon, celebrating 50 consecutive years of poetry writing with the debut of his new collection, Golden (Freedom-of-the-Press, 2023 – available for $25 cash at this reading).  The author of 12 books, he is also among the 20 longest-serving poetry editors and literary magazine publishers still active in America, and received a 2009 New Jersey State Jefferson Award for Public Service for his work as Publisher/Poetry Editor of Sensations Magazine.  Other recent titles: Twenty Minutes of Calm (The Poet’s Press, 2019) and Flashes, a novella (DAYDREAM Press, 2021)  amazon.com

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Of Camilla Trinchieri’s third mystery in her Tuscan series, Murder on the Vine (Soho Press), wrote Publisher’s Weekly “Trinchieri makes crime solving adventuresome, fun, and flavorful. This is the best in the series so far. Bring in number four.” Other titles in the series are Murder in Chianti, and The Bitter Taste of Murder. Trinchieri has published 14 novels, including eight under the pseudonym Camilla Crespi. All are mysteries except Seeking Alice, which won the Italian American Studies Association Prize in 2017.

When living in Rome, she worked dubbed Italian films with Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Lina Wertmuller.

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IAWA-Boston Presents

 JOY BAGLIO & THOMAS DEFREITAS

Saturday, November 19, 2022

6-8 PM EST at  I AM BOOKS 124 SALEM STREET, BOSTON

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JOY BAGLIO’S fiction appears in The Missouri Review, Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. She’s received fellowships from Yaddo, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, The Elizabeth George Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and The Kerouac Project, and is the founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Find her online at www.JoyBaglio.com and follow her on Twitter @JoyBaglio.

THOMAS DeFREITAS’S books include Longfellow, Tell Me, Kelsay Books (2022) and a chapbook Winter in Halifax, Kelsay Books (2021). His poems have appeared in Pensive, Plainsongs, Dappled Things, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Thomas is an associate member of the Academy of American Poets, and is an active member of the New England Poetry Club. Find Thomas on line at thomasdefreitas.me

IAWA New York presents a Zoom Salon:

Award-winning Authors:

Anthony Cappo & Andy Smart

& Open Mic on ZOOM

Saturday, November 12, 2022 @ 6-8 PM ET

Admission is free; registration is required; doors “close” at 6:15!

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctdeyrrTwqG93I5L_0BlgB1EkVie2DG8c5

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Anthony Cappo is the author of When You’re Deep in a Thing (Four Way Books 2022) and the chapbook, My Bedside Radio (Yes Poetry).

His writing has appeared in Thrush Poetry Journal, Prelude, The Rumpus, The Boiler, and other publications. Cappo earned his MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. He grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and now lives in New York City.

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Andy Smart’s debut book, The More You Hate Me (Unsolicited Press) is a memoir-in-essays collection that examines his father’s suicide.  Smart’s essays have appeared in Salamander, Sleet Magazine, and Moon City Review. His poetry appears in River Heron Review, Lily Poetry Review, The American Journal of Poetry, among other publications.

He earned his MFA from the Solstice Creative Writing Program at Lasell University, where he was a Michael Steinberg fellow.

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IAWA New York Presents Zoom Salon

Lisa Sita and Stella Fiore

& Open Mic on ZOOM

Saturday,  October 8, 2022 @ 6-8 PM ET

Admission is free; registration is required; doors “close” at 6:15!

Lisa Sita is the author of Madolina’s Daughter, an independently published novel. Of Madolina’s Daughter, one reader wrote:”…it is as delectable as the pastries sold at the Fig and Chestnut where Alba tends to shop.” Lisa’s  short stories and poetry have appeared in publications such as The Fictional Café, Literary Veganism, and The Ekphrastic Review. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing and a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Anthropology.  www.lisasita.com

Stella Fiore is the inaugural Rutan-Becket Writer in Residence at Conference House Park on Staten Island. An immersive literary exhibit, Working Title brings her novel-in-progress into physical space. She has had residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in America Oggi, The Magazine of La Cucina Italiana, NIAF’s Ambassador. From 2017 to 2019, she hosted Cut + Paste, a live two-hour literary talk show on Staten Island’s  Maker Park Radio. www.fiorestory.com

Next Reading: Nov. 12 Featuring Anthony Cappo and Andy Smart