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Three Rules of IAWA plus 1:
Read each other, Write or be written, Buy our books,
Review each other
@ Jefferson Market Library
425 6th Ave, near 9th St., 1st Floor
Willa Cather Room adjacent to Children’s Reading Room
Please wait in lobby to enter.
Featuring: Rosanna Staffa & Gabriella Belfiglio & Open Mic
Saturday, June 10 @ 2:30 Sign up in LOBBY; 4:45 pm end
Rosanna Staffa will read from her debut novel The War Ends At Four (Regal House Publishing, 2023). An Italian-born, award-winning author, she received a McKnight Advancement Grant, a Jerome Fellowship, and won The Southampton Review nonfiction prize in 2022 with Holy, was also nominated among Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction 2022. Her short story Animals with Wings was included in the Best Small Fiction 2021; her work received Honorable Mention for The Tiferet Journal Award in 2019 and a Pushcart nomination. A Hedgebrook Alumna, her work has appeared in many journals including: The Sun, The Best New Writers Vol. 16, Gargoyle, and Brevity Blog among many others.
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Gabriella M. Belfiglio is an Italian-American, queer artist and political activist in Brooklyn, NY. She is a winner of the W.B. Yeats award and a Saltonstall fellow. Belfiglio teaches self-defense, martial arts, and conflict resolution, to all ages throughout the five boroughs. Her work has been published in many anthologies and journals including The Centrifugal Eye, Folio, Avanti Popolo, Poetic Voices without Borders, Lambda Literary Review, and The Paterson Review. She is part of the poet trio, The Ferlinghetti Girls, with Paola Corso and Phyllis Capello.
3 rules of IAWA:
Read Each Other, Write or Be Written, Buy Each Other’s Books!
CARLA PANCIERA & MARK SABA
Saturday, May 20, 2023
6-8 PM EST at I AM BOOKS: 124 SALEM STREET, BOSTON
(arrive 5:45 to sign up for open mic!)
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CARLA PANCIERA is the author of a memoir: Barnflower (Loom Press), Bewildered (University of Massachusetts Press), a story collection and winner of AWP’s Grace Paley Award, and two collections of poetry: One of the Cimalores (Cider Press) and No Day, No Dusk, No Love (Bordighera).
MARK SABA’s most recent book publication is Flowers in the Dark (poetry). Other works include Calling the Names (poetry) and Ghost Tracks: Stories of Pittsburgh Past. His work has appeared widely in literary magazines. He is also a painter, and recently retired medical illustrator from Yale University.
IAWA New York
@ Jefferson Market Library
425 6th Ave, near 9th St., 1st Floor
Willa Cather Room
Please wait in lobby as adults are not allowed in Children’s Room.
Featuring: Christina Bruni & Annie Lanzillotto & Open Mic
Saturday, May 13@ 2:30 [sign up for Open in LOBBY]-4:45 pm
An award-winning blogger, Christina Bruni’s first book was the critically acclaimed memoir Left of the Dial. Her latest book is Working Assets: A Career Guide for Peers – Finding and Succeeding at a Job Living with a Mental Illness. She writes the Bruni in the City column for City Voices mental health journal, for which she won a Volunteer Journalist award. Her work has appeared in Feile-Festa, Sweet Lemons: Writings with a Sicilian Accent, Fresh Words: An International Literary Journal and Benessere Psicologico: Contemporary Thought on Italian American Mental Health. An IAWA Board Member, she has been in IAWA for 23 years.
Annie Rachele Lanzillotto’s books are: Whaddyacall the Wind? (Bordighera Press), Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light; and Pitch Roll Yaw, (Guernica World Editions), L is for Lion: an italian bronx butch freedom memoir (SUNY Press; finalist for LAMBDA Literary Award), Schistsong (Bordighera Press.) She podcasts as Annie’s Story Cave. Her albums include: Never Argue With a Jackass; and Swampjuice: Yankee with a Southern Peasant Soul. Lanzillotto has been awarded grants from New York Foundation for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Dancing in the Streets, Dixon Place, Franklin Furnace, Puffin Foundation, Creatives Rebuild New York, and Trickle Up NYC. AnnieLanzillotto.com
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3 rules of IAWA: Read Each Other, Write or Be Written, Buy Each Other’s Books!
IAWA-Boston Presents
GLORIA MINDOCK & ROSANNA STAFFA
Saturday, April 22, 2023
6-8 PM EST at I AM BOOKS, 124 SALEM STREET, BOSTON
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Gloria Mindock is editor of Cervena Barva Press and author of six books of poetry, most recently, Ash, which won 6 book awards. Widely published, Gloria has been translated and published into eleven languages. She served as Poet Laureate of Somerville in 2017 and 2018.
Rosanna Staffa is an Italian-born author. Her debut novel The War Ends At Four will be published by Regal House Publishing on May 10, 2023. Her stories appear in The Sun, Gargoyle Magazines, and many others. “Holy” is nominated among the Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction 2022. She is a Pushcart nominee and Hedgebrook Alumna.
IAWA New York
@ Jefferson Market Library
425 6th Ave. near 9th St.
1st Floor in Willa Cather Room adjacent to Children’s Reading Room
Phillip Giambri and Christine Baldino O’Hanlon & Open Mic
Saturday, April 8 @ 2:30 [Sign up for Open in LOBBY]-4:45 pm
Please remember: Adults are not allowed to wait in children’s room.
The 2022 winner of Nassau County Poet Laureate Society poetry contest, Phillip Giambri’s newest memoir, Good Boy, Bad Boy, A Better Man covers his life from the 40s in South Philly to his life the East Village in the 70s. His novella, The Amorous Adventures of Blondie and Boho (2020) is about love, survival, and gentrification in NYC’s East Village. He has two chapbooks and a memoir: Poems from an Unending Pandemic offers his perspective on NYC life during COVID-19; Love Borne in Retrograde (2017) is a collection of love poems and erotica; and Confessions of a Repeat Offender (2016) is a selection of performed stories and poems.
Of Christine Baldino O’Hanlon’s first collection, Rome-based poet Nathalie Handal writes,“The Bronx Years is filled with vitalità.” In it she recalls her rebellion, growing up in a traditional Italian-American family in the Bronx examining relatives with humor and honesty – asking, what do we choose to inherit? O’Hanlon’s work has appeared in The Paterson Literary Review, Voices in Italian Americana, Ovunque Siamo, and in the anthology, Rumors, Secrets & Lies. She has also written commercial content in advertising for print and commercials from cookie mixes, to credit cards and US Postage Stamps.
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3 rules of IAWA: Read Each Other, Write or Be Written, Buy Each Other’s Books!
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 2nd Saturdays
March 11, 2023 @ 2:30 PM @ Jefferson Market Library
425 6th Ave, near 9th 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!
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 2nd Saturdays
@ Jefferson Market Library
425 6th Ave, near 9th 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