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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 Thomas Fucaloro and Phillip Giambri
Thursday, November 14, 2024
LIVE, 6-8 PM; Open Mic begins at 6
Thomas Fucaloro has two new chapbooks, LE(t)GO (NeuroNautic Press, 2024) and The Only Gardening I Do Is When I Give Up (Finishing Line Press, 2022). The winner of numerous grants from the Staten Island Council of the Arts, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the NYC Office for the Prevention of Hate Crimes, and the NYC Commission of Human Rights to name a few. Fucaloro has been on six national slam teams. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School and is a co-founding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI Press. He teaches poetry and literature courses at Wagner College, BMCC, and CSI.
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n 2022, Phillip Giambri was named Nassau County Poet Laureate Society poetry contest winner and was awarded the Acker Award in 2020 for Storytelling and Community Service. He has published two memoirs: Good Boy, Bad Boy, A Better Man (2022) covers his early life in the 40s in South Philadelphia to the East Village in the 70s and Confessions of a Repeat Offender (2016). Other works include: The Amorous Adventures of Blondie and Boho (2020); Poems from an Unending Pandemic, Love Borne in Retrograde (2017). Recently he has worked with Linda Kleinbub to launch two-year-old publishing house Pink Trees Press.
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