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@ John D. Calandra Italian American Institute 25 W. 43rd St., 17th Floor, NYC
Donna Masini and Jennifer Militello
2nd Thursday, June 11, 2026
LIVE 6-8PM EST; Open Mic begins at 6PM; admission is free
Donna Masini is the author of Did You Find Everything You Were Looking For? (W.W. Norton and Co.), 4:30 Movie (Norton), Turning to Fiction (Norton) That Kind of Danger (Beacon) and About Yvonne (Norton), a novel. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, Yale Review, Paris Review, Poetry, et al. A recipient of an NEA, a NYFA, a Pushcart Prize, and residencies from Civitella Ranieri and the Bogliasco Foundation, she lives in NYC and is a Professor of English at Hunter College (CUNY).
Jennifer Militello is the Poet Laureate of New Hampshire. She is the author of the hybrid collection Identifying the Pathogen (Tupelo Press, 2026), named a finalist for the FC2 Ronald Sukenick Innovative Fiction Prize, the memoir Knock Wood, winner of the Dzanc Nonfiction Prize, and five collections of poetry, including, most recently, The Pact (Tupelo Press/Shearsman Books, 2021). Her work has appeared in Best American Poetry, American Poetry Review, The Nation, The New Republic, The Paris Review, and Poetry. She teaches in the MFA program at New England College.
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