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IAWA –NY Goes LIVE 2nd Thursdays
@ John D. Calandra Italian American Institute 25 W. 43rd St. 17th Floor, NYC
IAWA Presents Remarkable Poets:
Jennifer Franklin & Angela Alaimo O’Donnell
Thursday, September 12, 2024
LIVE, 6-8 PM; Open Mic begins at 6
Jennifer Franklin is the author of three books including If Some God Shakes Your House (Four Way Books, 2023), finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize and the Julie Suk Award. She is working on a new manuscript, A Fire In Her Brain about Lucia Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Franklin has received a Pushcart Prize, a NYFA/City Artist Corps grant, and a CRCF Award. She is Poetry Reviews Co-editor of The Rumpus and teaches at Manhattanville’s MFA program, 24 Pearl Street, and HVWC, where she serves as Program Director. She holds degrees from Brown University and Columbia University School of the Arts.
Angela Alaimo O’Donnell has published 11 poetry collections. Her most recent book, Dear Dante (Paraclete Press, 2024), features poems in conversation with Dante Aligheri. Her previous book Holy Land (2022) won the Paraclete Poetry Prize. O’Donnell has also published a memoir, Mortal Blessings (Ave Maria Press, 2014); a prize-winning biography, Flannery O’Connor: Fiction Fired by Faith (Liturgical Press, 2015), and a groundbreaking critical study Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor (Fordham University Press, 2020). She is currently at work on two new collections: Body Songs and La Famiglia. She is a professor and Associate Director of the Curran Center for American Catholic Studies at Fordham University.
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