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IAWA-Boston Presents

LISA DeSIRO & DIANE JOSEFOWICZ

Saturday, January 21, 2023

6-8 PM EST at  I AM BOOKS 124 SALEM STREET, BOSTON

Register here: https://iambooksboston.com/events/

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A novelist, historian, and editor, Diane Josefowicz grew up outside Providence, where she now lives with her family. Ready, Set, Oh is her first novel. Her second, L’Air du Temps (1985) is forthcoming in 2024 from Regal House. She serves as reviews editor at Necessary Fiction, associate fiction editor at West Trade Review, and director of communications for Swing Left Rhode Island, a progressive organization focused on electoral work.

Lisa DeSiro is both a writer and a musician. Her collections include Simple as a Sonnet (Kelsay Books, 2021), Labor (Nixes Mate Books, 2018), and Grief Dreams (White Knuckle Press, 2017). She is a professional accompanist and also does freelance editorial work. Read more about her at thepoetpianist.com.

Three Rules of IAWA:

Read each other, Write or be written, Buy our books

 IAWA New York

Resumes 2^nd Saturdays

Jan. 14, 2023 @ 2:30 PM

@ Jefferson Market Library

425 6^th Ave, near 9^th St.

With Award-winning Authors:

David Messineo & Camilla Trinchieri

& Open Mic

Saturday, JANUARY 14 @ 2:30-4:30 pm

New Jersey poet David Messineo kicks off our 2023 season by launching his Golden Anniversary Tour this afternoon, celebrating 50 consecutive years of poetry writing with the debut of his new collection, Golden (Freedom-of-the-Press, 2023 – available for $25 cash at this reading).  The author of 12 books, he is also among the 20 longest-serving poetry editors and literary magazine publishers still active in America, and received a 2009 New Jersey State Jefferson Award for Public Service for his work as Publisher/Poetry Editor of Sensations Magazine.  Other recent titles: Twenty Minutes of Calm (The Poet’s Press, 2019) and Flashes, a novella (DAYDREAM Press, 2021)  amazon.com

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Of Camilla Trinchieri’s third mystery in her Tuscan series, Murder on the Vine (Soho Press), wrote Publisher’s Weekly “Trinchieri makes crime solving adventuresome, fun, and flavorful. This is the best in the series so far. Bring in number four.” Other titles in the series are Murder in Chianti, and The Bitter Taste of Murder. Trinchieri has published 14 novels, including eight under the pseudonym Camilla Crespi. All are mysteries except Seeking Alice, which won the Italian American Studies Association Prize in 2017.

When living in Rome, she worked dubbed Italian films with Federico Fellini, Luchino Visconti and Lina Wertmuller.

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IAWA-Boston Presents

 JOY BAGLIO & THOMAS DEFREITAS

Saturday, November 19, 2022

6-8 PM EST at  I AM BOOKS 124 SALEM STREET, BOSTON

Register at https://iambooksboston.com/events/

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JOY BAGLIO’S fiction appears in The Missouri Review, Tin House, American Short Fiction, The Iowa Review, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. She’s received fellowships from Yaddo, Bread Loaf and Sewanee Writers’ Conferences, The Elizabeth George Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, and The Kerouac Project, and is the founder of Pioneer Valley Writers’ Workshop. Find her online at www.JoyBaglio.com and follow her on Twitter @JoyBaglio.

THOMAS DeFREITAS’S books include Longfellow, Tell Me, Kelsay Books (2022) and a chapbook Winter in Halifax, Kelsay Books (2021). His poems have appeared in Pensive, Plainsongs, Dappled Things, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, and elsewhere. Thomas is an associate member of the Academy of American Poets, and is an active member of the New England Poetry Club. Find Thomas on line at thomasdefreitas.me

IAWA New York presents a Zoom Salon:

Award-winning Authors:

Anthony Cappo & Andy Smart

& Open Mic on ZOOM

Saturday, November 12, 2022 @ 6-8 PM ET

Admission is free; registration is required; doors “close” at 6:15!

Register in advance for this meeting:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZctdeyrrTwqG93I5L_0BlgB1EkVie2DG8c5

 After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.

Anthony Cappo is the author of When You’re Deep in a Thing (Four Way Books 2022) and the chapbook, My Bedside Radio (Yes Poetry).

His writing has appeared in Thrush Poetry Journal, Prelude, The Rumpus, The Boiler, and other publications. Cappo earned his MFA in creative writing from Sarah Lawrence College. He grew up in Cherry Hill, New Jersey and now lives in New York City.

Visit anthonycappo.com

Andy Smart’s debut book, The More You Hate Me (Unsolicited Press) is a memoir-in-essays collection that examines his father’s suicide.  Smart’s essays have appeared in Salamander, Sleet Magazine, and Moon City Review. His poetry appears in River Heron Review, Lily Poetry Review, The American Journal of Poetry, among other publications.

He earned his MFA from the Solstice Creative Writing Program at Lasell University, where he was a Michael Steinberg fellow.

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IAWA New York Presents Zoom Salon

Lisa Sita and Stella Fiore

& Open Mic on ZOOM

Saturday,  October 8, 2022 @ 6-8 PM ET

Admission is free; registration is required; doors “close” at 6:15!

Lisa Sita is the author of Madolina’s Daughter, an independently published novel. Of Madolina’s Daughter, one reader wrote:”…it is as delectable as the pastries sold at the Fig and Chestnut where Alba tends to shop.” Lisa’s  short stories and poetry have appeared in publications such as The Fictional Café, Literary Veganism, and The Ekphrastic Review. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing and a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Anthropology.  www.lisasita.com

Stella Fiore is the inaugural Rutan-Becket Writer in Residence at Conference House Park on Staten Island. An immersive literary exhibit, Working Title brings her novel-in-progress into physical space. She has had residencies at Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has appeared in America Oggi, The Magazine of La Cucina Italiana, NIAF’s Ambassador. From 2017 to 2019, she hosted Cut + Paste, a live two-hour literary talk show on Staten Island’s  Maker Park Radio. www.fiorestory.com

Next Reading: Nov. 12 Featuring Anthony Cappo and Andy Smart

You’re Invited to the NYC Poetry Fest on Governor’s Island

Saturday, September 10,  2022

A Trio of Poetry Circles: 

Thursday Morning Poets, Italian American Writers Association & Bordighera Press

Every summer, The New York City Poetry Festival invites poetry organizations and collectives of all shapes and sizes to bring their unique formats, aesthetics, and personalities to the festival grounds, which are ringed with a collection of beautiful Victorian houses and tucked beneath the wide, green canopies of dozens of century old trees. By uniting the largest community of poets in the country and offering a unique setting for literary activity, the New York City Poetry Festival electrifies arts and literature and brings poetry to new light in the public eye.

More Info Sept. 10 & 11: https://www.newyorkcitypoetryfestival.com/readings

THE BRINKLEY Stage

11:00AM: THURSDAY MORNING POETS

featuring Nicollette Barsamian, Isabella Calisi-Wagner, Beth Evans, J.A. Forgione, Bruce Grossberg, Melva C. Lewis, Maria Lisella, Megha Sood, and Judy Trupin

12:00PM: ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITERS ASSOCIATION

featuring Kathy Curto, Mike Fiorito, Peter Marra, Angela Alaimo O’Donnell

THE BLACKBIRD

1:30PM: BORDIGHERA PRESS

featuring Phyllis Capello, Maria Giura, Sara Fruner, Julia Lisella, and Maria Terrone.

IAWA New York presents:

Award-winning Authors:

Joe Giordano & Mark Ciabattari

& Open Mic on ZOOM

Saturday, Sept. 24, 2022 @ 6-8 PM ET

Admission is free; registration is required; doors “close” at 6:15!

Mark Ciabattari is author of four novels in the Rizzoli series– When the Mask Slips (Bordighera Press October 2022), Dreams of an Imaginary New Yorker Named Rizzoli and The Literal Truth (both reissued by Bordighera Press November 2020), and Preludes to History (Bordighera Press 2016), and Clay Creatures (Canio’s Editions, 2004), with two stories–“The Urn” by Mark Ciabattari and “The Jar” by Luigi Pirandello, in a new translation by Maria Enrico.   With his wife Jane, also a writer, he lives in Sonoma County, CA., where he is at work on Rizzoli #5, Ends and Odds.

Joe Giordano’s latest novel, The Art of Revenge, (Rogue Phoenix Press) was released in June. His stories have appeared in more than one hundred magazines including The Saturday Evening Post, and Shenandoah, and his short story collection, Stories and Places I Remember (Rogue Phoenix Press). His other novels include, Birds of Passage, An Italian Immigrant Coming of Age Story, (Harvard Square Editions) and the Anthony Provati thriller series, Appointment with ISIL, (Harvard Square Editions) and Drone Strike  (Rogue Phoenix Press).

IAWA—Boston Presents a Hybrid Reading

CHRISTINE PALAMIDESSI & LIVIA MENEGHIN

Saturday, September 17, 2022

6-8 PM EST at  I AM BOOKS 124 SALEM STREET, BOSTON—masks required

THIS IS A HYBRID READING—to attend by Zoom, please register at:

https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqcuGgqDIjGd0wzldIASqHEAJHCvr5qBrl

 Christine Palamidessi’s visual art and writing explores the interweaving of memory and time. She is author of Bridge of Love, The Virgin Knows and The Fiddle Case, and co-author of American Women, Italian Style; her articles have appeared in The New York Times and elsewhere. She is Italian Americana’s fiction editor. Her memoir “Grandmothers” is engraved in granite and installed at Boston’s MBTA Jackson Square station.

Livia Meneghin (she/her) is the author of Honey in My Hair and GASHER reviews. She’s the winner of Breakwater Review‘s 2022 Peseroff Prize, a Writers’ Room of Boston Fellowship, and The Academy of American Poets’ 2020 University Prize. Her writing has found homes in Solstice Lit, Thrush, and elsewhere.

IAWA New York & Boston Present:

Jay Parini & Rose Solari

Saturday, June 25, 2022 (on Zoom)

6-8 PM EST   Open Mic begins at 6–“doors” close at 6:15!

Admission is free register with link below:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkdeqtqDIuE927-9ldERE2ti44S1p24SGN

Jay Parini is the author of more than thirty books, including the novels Benjamin’s Crossing, The Passages of H.M., The Apprentice Lover, The Damascus Road, and The Last Station, which was made into an Academy Award-nominated film starring Helen Mirren and Christopher Plummer.

His six volumes of poetry include New and Collected Poems: 1975-2015. He has written biographies of Steinbeck, Robert Frost, Faulkner, and Gore Vidal. He has also written a biographic study of Jesus and numerous other nonfiction works, including Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America. His recent memoir, which he calls a “novelistic memoir,” was Borges and Me, a recollection of his travels through the highlands of Scotland in 1971 with Jorge Luis Borges.

Rose Solari is the author of three collections of poetry, The Last Girl, Orpheus in the Park, and Difficult Weather; the one-act play, Looking for Guenevere, in which she also performed, and a novel, A Secret Woman. She has lectured and taught writing workshops at many institutions, including Arizona State University’s Virginia G. Piper Center for Creative Writing; the University of Maryland, College Park; St. John’s College, Annapolis; and the Centre for Creative Writing at Oxford University in Oxford, England. In 2010, she co-founded Alan Squire Publishing, a small press with big ideas.