Book Boost

Saturday March 14, 2020 @ NYPL Mulberry Street

Featuring:

B. Amore & Joanna Clapps Herman

& IAWA Open Mic for ALL

When: 2:00-4:00 PM

Where: 10 Jersey Street New York, NY

Corner of Mulberry and Prince Streets

Near Lafayette Street one block south of East Houston Street

Journeys on the Wheel (Bordighera Press) is B. Amore’s first poetry collection. An artist, writer, she has also authored An Italian American Odyssey: Through Ellis Island and Beyond, Art by Mexican Farmworkers in Vermont, Carving Out a Dream, and has written numerous articles that have appeared in journals and revues. She is a founder of the Carving Studio and Sculpture Center and has been awarded Fulbright and Mellon Fellowships, public art commissions, and the Lifeline-filo della vita exhibit at Ellis Island.

When I Am Italian: Quando sono italiana (2019) is Joanna Clapps Herman’s most recent publication that explores the question of whether it’s possible to be Italian if you weren’t born in Italy. Other books include a collection of short stories, No Longer and Not Yet (2014), and a memoir, The Anarchist Bastard (2011). She is co-editor of two anthologies: Wild Dreams (2008) and Our Roots Are Deep with Passion (2006).

Upcoming 2020 Readings

April 11:

Free workshop: How does your work sound in Italian?

Versetto Libero or Free Verse with Laura Capparotti & Dave Johnson

Bring Poems – no longer than  one page – to be translated into Italian

May 9:

Mark Chiusano & David Messineo

June 13:

Cynthia Herbert Bruschi Adams & Brian Fanelli