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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 Dante Di Stefano & Raymond Turco
2nd Thursday, May 8, 2025
LIVE, 6-8 PM; Open Mic begins at 6
Dante Di Stefano is the author of five poetry collections and a chapbook, including the book-length poem, The Widowing Radiance (Bordighera Press, 2025). His writing has appeared in American Poetry Review, Best American Poetry 2018, Poem-a-Day, Prairie Schooner, The Sewanee Review, The Writer’s Chronicle, and elsewhere. He holds a PhD in English Literature and his poetry has won many awards, including the Auburn Witness Poetry Prize, the Manchester Poetry Prize (UK), the Thayer Fellowship in the Arts, among others. He co-edited the anthology Misrepresented People (NYQ Books, 2018).
Raymond Turco’s first chapbook, Rays of Light and Darkness, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2024. A poet and playwright, he writes poems in English and Italian. The author of nine stage plays, he has published his poetry in the Rutherford Red Wheelbarrow, Lothlorien Poetry Journal, and with Bordighera Press, among others. He sits on the Board of Directors of the Cliffside Park Arts Association and is the organization’s Director of Literature. He has a special affinity for European history, travel, surrealism, magical realism, and absurdism.
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