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IAWA -BOSTON Presents:

Anna Monardo & Matthew Porto

Saturday, October 19, 2024 at I Am Books

124 Salem Street, Boston, MA

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

Anna Monardo is the author of After Italy: A Family Memoir of Arranged Marriage (Bordighera Press, 2024) and the novels The Courtyard of Dreams and Falling In Love with Natassia (Doubleday). Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Creative Nonfiction, Ovunque Siamo, and has been anthologized in Helen Barolini’s The Dream Book. Monardo is professor emerita in the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Visit annamonardo.com for more.

Matthew Porto is an Italian American poet from Long Island, NY. He holds a PhD in English from Texas Tech University and an MFA in poetry from Boston University. His first collection, Moon Grammar, appeared with Slant Books in 2024. He lives in Boston, MA, where he is a professor of English at Berklee College of Music.

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