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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 Linda Dini Jenkins & Maria Terrone
2nd Thursday, April 10, 2025
LIVE, 6-8 PM; Open Mic begins at 6
Linda Dini Jenkins is the author of Becoming Italian: Chapter & Verse from an Italian American Girl (IngramSpark, 2023) and Up at the Villa: Travels with my Husband (Great Little Books, 2009). Her poetry has appeared in Voices in Italian Americana, Ovunque Siamo, and Poeti italo-americani e italo-canadesi. She is Copy Editor for Abruzzissimo Magazine and a contributing writer for The Adventures of the Baker’s Daughter. She lives in Peterborough, NH and Sulmona, Italy.
Maria Terrone is the author of four full-length poetry collections, including No Known Coordinates, recently published by The Word Works. Other titles are Eye to Eye (Bordighera Press); A Secret Room in Fall (McGovern Prize, Ashland Poetry Press), The Bodies We Were Loaned, and two chapbooks. Credits include POETRY, Ploughshares, Poetry Daily and work in more than 30 anthologies. At Home in the New World from Bordighera was her nonfiction debut. She is poetry editor of the journal Italian Americana.
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