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IAWA-BOSTON Presents:

Mary Bonina and Joseph Bocchicchio

Saturday, January 17, 2026, at I Am Books

124 Salem Street, Boston, MA

6-8 PM EST; Open Mic begins at 6; admission is free

Mary Bonina’s My Way Home is her debut novel. Other books include My Father’s Eyes, memoir, three poetry collections –most recently Lunch in Chinatown. You can read her poem, “Drift” on a granite monolith, permanent public art outside Green St. on the Orange Line. A fellow awarded many residencies at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, including their France retreat, she earned her M.F.A. from Warren Wilson’s Program for Writers.

Joseph Bocchicchio’s work has appeared in Cutthroat, Entropy, Panning for Poems, Jawbone, Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine, Ovunque Siamo, Voices in Italian Americana, and three Edith Chase Symposium Chapbooks: Resurrection River Poems, Rewilding Ohio, Cuyahoga River Poems, and the anthology The Nature of Our Times. His creative non-fiction, “Passing Through,” was nominated for a Pushcart by The University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine.

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