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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 Amy Barone & Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons
2nd Thursday, March 13, 2025
LIVE, 6-8 PM; Open Mic begins at 6
Amy Barone’s poetry collections include: Defying Extinction (Broadstone Books, 2022) and We Became Summer (NYQ Books, 2018). Her chapbooks include: Kamikaze Dance (Finishing Line Press) and Views from the Driveway (Foothills Publishing.) Her poetry has appeared in The Café Review, Muddy River Poetry Review, New Verse News, The Ocotillo Review, and Paterson Literary Review, among other publications. A member of the brevitas online poetry community, find her at X: @AmyBBarone
Kelly Jean Fitzsimmons is a writer, educator, and storyteller. Her recent work has appeared in HiLoBrow, Marie Claire, Hippocampus Magazine, and numerous anthologies. She is the creator and producer of No, YOU Tell It! (noyoutellit.com), a nonfiction series that brings storytellers together to trade tales, speak each other’s words, and empower voices on the page and stage. She is also the editor of the No, YOU Tell It! Ten-Year Anthology, available from Palm Circle Press. Follow her @noyoutellit
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