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@ John D. Calandra Italian American Institute 25 W. 43rd St., 17th Floor, NYC
Maria Giura and Denise La Neve
2nd Thursday, May 14, 2026
LIVE 6-8PM EST; Open Mic begins at 6PM; admission is free
Maria Giura’s newest book If We Still Lived Where I Was Born is co-winner of the 2026 Paterson Book Prize. She is also the author of What My Father Taught Me (Bordighera Press) and Celibate: A Memoir (Apprentice House). An Academy of American Poets winner, her work has been published in several journals including New York Quarterly, Prime Number, Liguorian, Presence, Paterson Literary Review and in the anthologies Celebrating Calabria: Writing Heritage and Memory and #Me Too, Anch’io. She currently teaches virtual writing workshops for Casa Belvedere Cultural Foundation.
Denise La Neve writes both poetry and fiction. She is the author of Half-Lives of the Radium Girls, published by The Poets Press (www.poetspress.org/). She was contributor and co-editor for a trilogy Poets of the Palisades anthologies: Beyond the Rift (2010), META-LAND (2016), and On the Verge (2020). She co-hosts the High Mountain Meadow Poetry Series and has been published in numerous publications.
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May 16: BOSTON – Jennifer Militello & George Guida
June 14: NY- Donna Masini & Jennifer Militello
July 18 SAT: IAWA @ NY Poetry Festival, Governor’s Island
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