Home
Join IAWA
Newsletter
Why IAWA
The Three Rules of IAWA
Most Popular:
Why IAWA - April 2002
Biographies
Bibliography NEW!
IAWA Italian American Writers Association Newsletter August, 2010
P.O. Box 418, Brooklyn, NY 11215
IAWA SUPPORTS ITALIAN AMERICAN WRITING.
PLEASE SUPPORT IAWA.
You can make a donation through Paypal at www.iawa.net
Suggested donations:
Membership $30 (students and seniors $20)
Associate
$100-249
Patron $250-499
Founder $500-1000
IAWA is a 501(c) (3) not-for-profit corporation. Donations are tax-deductible.
If you prefer to send a check, make it payable to “Italian American Writers Association,” and send it to the following address:
Treasurer, Italian American Writers Association,
P.O. Box 418, Brooklyn, NY 11215
___________________________________________________________________________
Please
share our Italian American Writer's blog on your Facebook/Twitter
account
As some of you know, we have a
blog at
http://italianamericanwritersassoc.wordpress.com/
And I hope that you have (or will) enjoyed
the information and writing presented there. We now have a "Share"
button on our blog so you can share the blog w/ your Facebook friends
& Twitter fans. So please help get the word out about our blog
and click on the "Share" button so others can enjoy the
blog.
_______________________________________________________________
Do you have a Linkedin page? Help Us get the word out about IAWA
Connect to us on our Linkedin page: http://www.linkedin.com/in/italianamericanwritersassoc
___________________________________________________________________________
Please send us announcements of readings and literary events
by the 15th of the preceding month.
Please format event announcements in this order: Day, Date, Type of Event, Event and Names of Participants, Time, Place of Event and Address, Admission price; Contact information/ Web site.
We do not open attachments; please put all announcements in the body of your email in plain text only; we can’t use jpg or anything in all caps
E-mail announcements to Vittoria repetto at iawanewsletter@aol.com
Saturday, August 14th - 5:45 pm – 7:45pm.
Poetry and Prose Feature plus Open Mike
Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia St., Manhattan
212-989-9319; www.corneliastreetcafe.com
$7 minimum includes one drink
Come in time to sign up at 5:45 pm.
Bring poetry Bring prose Bring script Bring a friend
5 minute time limit for open mike
Feature Readers:
Jennifer
Guglielmo
&
Clare Ultimo
At the turn of the twentieth century, Italian Americans led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Yet Italian women's political activism and cultures of resistance have been largely invisible. Historian Jennifer Guglielmo, author of Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945 (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), brings to life the Italian, working class women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational, radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. In this presentation, she shows how their commitment diminished as they became white, working-class Americans. Guglielmo is an Associate Professor of History, Smith College.
IAWA members and those in the New York literary scene know Clare Ultimo as the creator of Poetry Dog Tags (Chronicle Books) and Verbs on Asphalt: The History of Nuyorican Poetry Slam (www.verbsonasphalt.com); and is currently working on a collection of poetry called 2012: Poems About Stuff That Never Ends. An award-winning graphic designer for clients such as Barnes + Noble Publishing and Harper Collins, her poetry has been published in The Paterson Literary Review and other zines about town and her video short, Inner Movement is in the permanent collection in the Casoria Museum of Contemporary Art, Naples Italy. She has an MFA in Integrated Media and she has taught Communications at Parsons, Pratt and Hunter College www.clareultimo.com
The reading takes place Saturday, August 14th, 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., at the Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan, 212-989-9319. The evening starts with Open Mike readings of five minutes each.
Since 1991, the
organization has given voice to writers through its Open Reading
series at Cornelia St. Café every month.
IAWA is a 501© (3) not-for-profit corporation; donations are tax deductible.
Events:
Sunday, August 1. Book launch: Gil Fagiani's newest collection of poetry: A Blanquito In El Barrio 4pm. Bowery Poetry Club 308 Bowery, between Houston and Bleecker, Manhattan (212) 614-0505 Directions: Take F Train to 2nd Avenue.
Wednesday, September 22. Book Release Party: Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City by Jennifer Gugliemo At the turn of the twentieth century, Italian Americans led and participated in some of the period's most volatile labor strikes. Yet Italian women's political activism and cultures of resistance have been largely invisible. This book brings to life the Italian, working-class women who helped shape the vibrant, transnational, radical political culture that expanded into the emerging industrial union movement. In this presentation, she shows how their commitment diminished as they became white, working-class Americans. The rise of fascism, the Red Scare, and the deprivations of the Great Depression led many to embrace nationalism and racism, ironically to try to meet the same desires for economic justice and dignity that had inspired their enthusiasm for anarchism, socialism, and communism. 6 pm. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, Manhattan. Free Admission. Seating is limited. Please call (212) 642-2094 to pre-register with the Calandra Institute. Be prepared to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge. For further information, www.qc.edu/calandra
Monday, September 27. Reading: Mary Caponegro reads from All Fall Down Mary Caponegro’s experimental fiction blurs the line between fantasy and reality. In these stories of love and healing gone awry, we visit Rome and a marriage therapy retreat, encounter orphans performing abortions in their playroom, witness a mother’s impotence in the face of the 9/11 attacks, meet a man buckling under the pressures of care giving, and observe couples on the brink of dissolution. All of the characters are heading toward “ninety mile-an-hour psychic crashes euphemistically referred to as epiphanies.” The tragicomedies of failure, resilience, and transformation are rendered with exuberant lyricism, striking characterization, and elaborately detailed settings. 6 pm. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, Manhattan. Free Admission. Seating is limited. Please call (212) 642-2094 to pre-register with the Calandra Institute. Be prepared to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge. For further information, www.qc.edu/calandra
Tuesday, September 28. Reading: Women's / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike, Featured Readers: Rosamond S. King & Christine Rodriguez Hosted by Vittoria repetto Rosamond S. King’s reading/performance “Flesh” will focus on the experiences of the physical body, from illness to pleasure. The reading will be in RSK’s Verse Cabaret style, including song as well as spoken word.
The work of Christine Rodriguez revolves around pushing the boundaries of human experience though substance misuse, sexuality and spirituality. The majority of her work explores the way they inherently clash and ultimately intertwine; her blog is http://brassknucklehippie.wordpress.com
7pm. Bluestockings, 172 Allen St. (between Stanton & Rivington), Manhattan. $5 suggested donation. For further information call (212) 777-6028 or email Vittoriar@aol.com .
Wednesday, September 29. Film: Zampogna: The Soul of Southern Italy In a journey through Southern Italy, Italian American David Marker explores the zampogna, a Southern Italian bagpipe historically considered a shepherd’s instrument. Traditionally made by hand from goat skin and wood pipes, the zampogna continues to be manufactured on a small scale although instrument-makers now utilize machine tools to some degree. In the film, musicians and instrument-makers demonstrate their art and share stories about the history and state of this folk instrument and its associated music. As Marker travels through Sicily, Calabria, Campania, and Molise, he reflects on Italian folk culture as a route of return to his family’s. 6 pm. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, Manhattan. Free Admission. Seating is limited. Please call (212) 642-2094 to pre-register with the Calandra Institute. Be prepared to show a photo ID to the building’s concierge. For further information, www.qc.edu/calandra
Members’ News:
Gil Fagiani is the winner of the 2010 Working People's Poetry Competition, sponsored by Partisan Press, for his poem "A Clean Wound;” http://italianamericanwritersassoc.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/a-clean-wound-by-gil-fagiani/ Fagiani also won Honorable Mention for the 2010 Ginsberg Poetry Award, for the poem “Salsa” which will appear in the Paterson Literary Review.
Jessica Femiani's poem "Immigrant Dreams" was a finalist for the Paterson Literary Review's contest, “The American Voice in Poetry: the Legacy of Whitman, Williams, and Ginsberg.” "Immigrant Dreams" along with "Castagne," "Do Not Throw It Out," and "Rising" will be included in Paterson Literary Review # 39 in 2011.
Daniela Gioseffi was featured on the Brooklyn Heights Blog with an excellent review of her book Wild Nights, Wild Nights: The Story of Emily Dickinson's "Master" on June 23rd.; http://brooklynheightsblog.com/archives/19611 Daniela was also introduced as a reader participating in the Dickinson poetry marathon at The NY Botanical Gardens where Alice Quinn, Director of the Poetry Society of America, hosted and talked about Daniela's and others' books. on Dickinson. The critic Christopher Benfey, conversed in a symposium with Daniela and others at the Emily Dickinson Festival, and recreation of the poet's gardens at The NY Botanical events.
Anthony
Maulucci believes that it’s a disgrace that the online
bookselling behemoth known as Amazon.com does not have a separate
category for Italian American literature while they have one for
several other ethnic groups. He feels that we Italian American
authors deserve to have our own category for the thousands of titles
by hundreds of important authors of Italian descent Authors such as
Don DeLillo, Gay Talese, David Baldacci, Adriana Trigiani, Mario
Puzo, John Fante, W. S. Piero, and John Ciardi, to name but a few,
have contributed immeasurably to mainstream American culture, but
there are an abundance of others such as myself who are much lesser
known but nevertheless among the authentic voices of our
subculture.
Therefore, he has given a modest launch to a
letter-writing/email-message campaign by starting a Facebook page for
those who support this cause. Here’s the
link
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/pages/Create-a-Category-for-Italian-American-Literature/114487588597585?ref=ts
Please add your voice to the petition by sending a message of support
to Jeff Bezos at Amazon. His address is jeff@amazon.com
Ned Balbo has received the Donald Justice Poetry Prize for his third book, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (forthcoming in 2010 from Story Line Press/WCU Poetry Center). This past fall, Italian publisher Iacobelli brought out Padri: tre memoir italo americani, an anthology of three Italian-American authors' work, which includes "La musica di mio padre," a translation of Ned's essay "My Father's Music" (work by Carol Bonomo Albright and Edvige Giunta is also included).Visit http://www.wcupa.edu/_Academics/sch_cas/poetry/DonaldJusticePrizeWinner.asp
Anthony Buccino has published his tenth book, CANNED - Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed (Cherry Blossom Press, 68 pages, $15.00, ISBN 978-0-9825677-3-9), visit AnthonyBuccino.com for more information.
Maria Mazziotti Gillan’s book What We Pass On: Collected Poems 1980-2009 was published by Guernica Editions, Toronto, Canada. Also her book, Nightwatch by Aeronwy Thomas and Maria Mazziotti Gillan was published by Seventh Quarry Press, Wales in cooperation with Cross-Cultural Communications, Merrick, NY.
Rosalie Calabrese’s poem “Not Gone” appeared in the Poetica Holocaust web edition (June 2010), www.poeticamagazine.com
Louisa Calio's poem "Fast Food Jamaican Style" was just published by New Verse News on the web May 26th. Two poems " Dance of Gold" and " Perhaps the Desert Will Speak" will be published in Philadelphia Poets Volume 17—2011 issue edited by Rosemary Capello. Several of her photos and poems with translations by Nino Provenzano will appear in the next issue of Journal of Italian Translation edited by Luigi Bonaffini. Her essay on John O' Donohue Celtic Soul and several poems are in the current issue of Feile-Festa edited by Frank Polizzi
Rita Signorelli-Pappas's new collection of poems, Satyr's Wife, has been published by Serving House Books and is available through Amazon.com
Mary Cappello was a finalist for the Judy Grahn Award for Lesbian Nonfiction for her memoir Called Back (Alyson Books)
Fred Gardaphe, Distinguished Professor of English and Italian American Studies at Queens College and the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, has been awarded a Fulbright Scholar teaching fellowship. He will lecture in American Cultural Studies at the University of Salerno in Italy during the 2010-11 academic year. Fulbright recipients are selected on the basis of academic or professional achievement, as well as demonstrated leadership potential in their fields
Marisa Labozzetta won the Watchung Arts Festival Italian American Fiction Contest with the story: "Forecast For a Sunny Day" (Italian Americana, Winter 2010).
Ned Balbo has received the Donald Justice Poetry Prize for his third book, The Trials of Edgar Poe and Other Poems (forthcoming in 2010 from Story Line Press/WCU Poetry Center). This past fall, Italian publisher Iacobelli brought out Padri: tre memoir italo americani, an anthology of three Italian-American authors' work, which includes "La musica di mio padre," a translation of Ned's essay "My Father's Music" (work by Carol Bonomo Albright and Edvige Giunta is also included).Visit http://www.wcupa.edu/_Academics/sch_cas/poetry/DonaldJusticePrizeWinner.asp
Claudine M D'Angelo-Dotzman had a book review published in this week's Curator Magazine. "Tony Soprano Doesn't Live Here Anymore" http://www.curatormagazine.com/claudinedangelodotzman/tony-soprano-doesnt-live-here-anymore/
Vittoria repetto has a blog featuring her events and samples of her poetry and short stories too.www.vittoriarepetto.wordpress.com
Dr. Marie Menna Pagliaro’s novel, That Woman and the Mafia Don, conveys the rejection of Mafia values by proud Italian-Americans. The novel is available at Barnes and Noble (www.bn.com ) or amazon.com with book sale profits going to help prevent young people from joining all kinds of ethnic gangs. That Woman and the Mafia Don was selected to launch the Il Circolo Book Club of Palm Beach because the novel covers four generations of Italian women, providing a focus for discussions on Il Circolo’s theme for this season, Italian American Women. To learn more about the novel, visit
Dr. Pagliaro's website at www.mariepagliaro.com.
Plain View Press announces the publication of Wild Nights; Wild Nights: The Story of Emily Dickinson’s “Master Figure” – a novel by Daniela Gioseffi. Wild Nights, Wild Nights, solves at last what critics call the greatest mystery in American Literature: Who the Master Figure of the most iconic American woman poet was. It shows that Dickinson was not the recluse that myth has claimed and changes her image, making her a much more liberated woman than history has shown. Dickinson’s poems and letters pepper the text. The book has been called “ground-breaking” and will change the reading of Dickinson’s poems and letters forever. http://www.plainviewpress.net/gallery2/pages/Wild-Nights-Wild-Nights.htm.
Publisher’s News/Book Reviews/Contest Winners/Awards:
Visit Italica Press at http://www.italicapress.com/ or http://italicapressnews.blogspot.com/ for catalog or recent titles.
Calandra Institute Summer Book Sale: Prices do not include shipping. Please contact Rosaria Musco (rosaria.musco@qc.cuny.edu) to purchase books.
Bad Reputation: Performances, Essays, Interviews Penny Arcade $15
Almond Wine and Fertility Licia Canton $15
My Cousin the Saint: A Search for Faith, Family, and Miracles Justin Catanoso $20
Siciliana Emanuel di Pasquale $8
Land of Time: Selected Poems 1972-2003 Luigi Fontanella $10
Subduing Demons in America: The Selected Poems of John Giorno, 1962-2008 $15
At the Copa Marisa Labozetta $12
Tosca the Cat Lady Gina Lagorio $16
The Grand Gennaro Garibaldi M. Lapolla $20
Not Just A Personal Ad Vittoria Repetto $10
Such Is Life Leonilde Frieri Ruberto $10
The Lost Ravioli Recipes of Hoboken: A Search for Food and Family Laura Schenone $10
The Price of Silence Camilla Trinchieri $10
Baroque Richard Vetere $18
Return to Naples: My Italian Bar Mitzvah and Other Discoveries Robert Zweig $20
Diva: Defiance and Passion in Early Italian Cinema Angela Dalle Vacche $25
Dagoes Read: Tradition and the Italian/American Writer Fred Gardaphé $12
Prostitution and the State in Italy, 1860-1915 .Mary Gibson $10
Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, editors $20
The Crescent City Lynchings: The Murder of Chief Hennessy, the New Orleans “Mafia” Trials, and the Parish Prison Mob Tom Smith $20
Italic Lessons Piero Bassetti $10
The Poet’s Cookbook Grace Cavalieri & Sabine Pascarelli, editors $12
Profiles of Italian Americans Cosmo Ferrara $16
The Unscrupulous: Scams, Cons, Fakes, and Frauds that Poison the Fine Arts Nick James Mileti $20
The Italians of New York: Five Centuries of Struggle and Achievement Philip V. Cannistraro, editor $35
Freeing the Angel From the Stone: A Guide to Piccirilli Sculpture in New York City
Jerry and Eleanor Koffler $12
Si, Parliamo Italiano!: Globalization of the Italian Culture in the United States Vincenzo Milione and Christine Gambino $10
Uncertainty and Insecurity in the New Age Vincent Parrillo, editor $32
The Autobiography of Carlo Tresca Nunzio Pernicone, editor $10
I Vote My Conscience: Debates, Speeches, and Writings of Vito Marcantonio Annette Rubenstein, editor $15
Night Reading in the UK announces the publication of Monday Afternoon, a novel by Stephen Sangirardi. Monday Afternoon is the story of an English teacher--Angelo Aiello--who strays from the marital path and gets himself in big trouble. Angelo has been married fifteen years and has a thirteen-year-old daughter, when he meets his soul mate--Monica Richardson--at the Stamford Nature Center.
Publisher: www.NightReading.ning.com ISBN: 1450585035. 259 pages. $14.99 on Amazon.com
New from Bordighera
Press Such is Life, A Memoir / Ma la vita e' fatta cosi'
(A bilingual edition) Written by: Leonilde Frieri Ruberto,
Translation and Preface by: Laura E. Ruberto, Introduction by: Ilaria
Serra
"An immigrant woman's moving account of what one gains,
but also what one loses, when emigrating to the U.S. from a village
in rural Campania. All those who have been uprooted from their homes
can identify with this Southern Italian woman's life story—marked
by acceptance of hardship and the poetic memory of the village in
which she was born and to which she could not bear to return."
Paola Alessandra Sensi-Isolani, Professor of Anthropology, St. Mary’s
College of California
The Italian American Press is pleased to announce the posting of Dino’s Story: A Novel of 1960s by Paul Salsini
From a tiny isolated village to the high art of Florence, Dino’s Story: A Novel of 1960s Tuscany completes the sweeping narrative of “A Tuscan Trilogy.” A boy just born in the first novel of the trilogy comes to Florence to study art, and, in this tumultuous decade of change, he is himself transformed as a devastating flood ruins not only works of art but also the lives of the poor and helpless.
Martha Bergland, author of A Farm Under a Lake, calls Dino’s Story a “fascinating inside look at Florence through the eyes of Paul Salsini’s warm and complex characters. I couldn't put it down.” Lawrence Baldassaro, Professor Emeritus of Italian and Comparative Literature, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, found it “an intriguing coming-of-age tale. Dino's Story is a seamless and conclusive sequel to the first two volumes of Paul Salsini's Tuscan trilogy. Once again, Salsini combines meticulous research, a keen eye for detail, and narrative dexterity.”
To order a copy of this fascinating novel and/or to peruse our listing of 301 titles in 23 categories, visit The Italian American Press at www.italianamericanpress.com.
By the Breath of Their Mouths: Narratives of Resistance in Italian America (Suny Series in Italian/American Culture) by Mary Jo Bona "This book will become a canonical work in the criticism of Italian American literature." --John Paul Russo, author of The Future without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society "This is a work of consummate scholarship incorporating substantial knowledge of literary history, critical theory, and great breadth of reading in Italian American and multiethnic literature. Beautifully written, it is one of the top critical works I have encountered in the field of Italian American studies." --Josephine Gattuso Hendin, author of Heartbreakers: Women and Violence in Contemporary Culture and Literature"
http://www.sunypress.edu/p-4948-by-the-breath-of-their-mouths.aspx
Italian publisher Iacobelli has issued an Italian American book in its series “Frammenti di Memoria.” The volume, titled Padri: Racconti itaoamericani, features memoirs by Ned Balbo, Carol Bonomo Albright, and Edvige Giunta (originally published in English in Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, eds. Joanna Clapps Herman and Lee Gutkind).
http://www.iacobellisrl.it/negozio/product_info.php?products_id=114&osCsid=lwdculmyygmd.
Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture - Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, eds. This volume in the MLA Options for teaching series aims to foster a deeper and more complex appreciation for the importance of Italian American texts in the study of American culture. The editors open the volume by outlining the history of Italians in the United States American studies. and exploring the potential of literature and the arts to enable the recovery of a forgotten, even repressed, historical past. Over thirty scholars and teachers then present innovative ways of teaching Italian American texts and integrating them with other texts in courses ranging from American literature and history to multiethnic and women’s studies. Contributors discuss Italian American fiction, poetry, memoir, oral history, and theater and performance. A section on film and television provides an overview of popular as well as lesser-known works and interrogates the stereotyped portrayals of Italian Americans. Other contributors offer historical and interdisciplinary approaches to Italian American texts that revolve around themes of race and gender politics, work and social class, and historical intersections. The volume concludes with a review of anthologies that can be used in teaching Italian Cloth ISBN 978-1-60329-066-1 $40.00 Paper ISBN 978-1-60329-067-8 $22.00 Modern Language Association • 26 Broadway, 3rd floor n New York, NY • 10004-1789 • 646 576-5018 • www.mla.org
Guernica Editions: Passing On The Torch
Dear Friends and Colleagues: As some of you may already be aware, Antonio D'Alfonso -- after 32 years of unwavering dedication to the difficult world of Canadian book publishing -- has graciously passed on ownership of his beloved Guernica Editions, one of the longest continuously-running houses in this country, to Connie McParland and Michael Mirolla. It is our desire and intention to continue the legacy he has built up over the last three-plus decades while at the same time preparing Guernica for the many difficulties and challenges that publishing faces in the 21st century. It is a task that we take on with a combination of pride and humility. Some of you may have been Guernica authors in the past; some of you are Guernica authors today; and some may become Guernica authors in the future. Hopefully, all of you are Guernica readers! Stay tuned for further news about upcoming readings, events and launches as we prepare for the 2010 publishing season with an ambitious program designed to not simply uphold but to rejuvenate Guernica's legacy. If there are any concerns or questions, feel free to let us know. 489 Strathmore Boulevard, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4C 1N8 guernicaeditions.com
Literary & Research Queries:
R. D. Williams is writing about her immigrant experience, willing to meet other writers. Also, seeking advice on how to obtain publisher. Contact: rosaria@gmail.com
Lachrista Greco is currently working on a book proposal for an anthology on young (20-something) Italian American women and the search for identity. She is looking for women to write on identity, feminism, sexuality, activism, etc. You may submit poetry and/or nonfiction. This book will be using a feminist framework. olive.grrrl@gmail.com
Magazines, Contests & Calls for Submissions:
Ed Maruggi is putting together a collection of non-fiction, fiction and poetry, tentatively titled "Humorous Happenings While Traveling in Italy." Anyone with a suitable piece of work should forward it, by September, at eamnod@rit.edu
Feile-Festa is an annual publication that comes out in the spring of each year. Though our preference is for creative work related to Irish and Italian/Sicilian themes, we are open to other Mediterranean cultures, all of which can relate to the respective country of family origin or the diasporas to America, Canada, etc. We are also interested in writing that evokes life in New York City. The reading period starts October 1st and ends January 1st. Please do not send submissions outside the time frame mentioned in the guidelines. www.medcelt.org/feile-festa/index.html
The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute is happy to announce the re-launching of its bi-annual journal the Italian American Review (IAR). The IAR features articles about the history and culture of Italian Americans, as well as other aspects of the Italian diaspora.The journal embraces a wide range of professional concerns and theoretical orientations in the social sciences and in cultural studies. Information for contributors can be found at: http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/calandra/italrev/iarcont.html.
Journal of Italian Translation is a non-profit international journal devoted to the translation of literary works from and into Italian-English-Italian dialects. Subscription price is $25 per year. Submissions and inquiries should be sent to Luigi Bonaffini at l.bonaffini@att.net. All past issues can be downloaded from the journal’s website at www.jitonline.org
The most recent issue of Philadelphia Poets, Volume 15, 2009, is still available. Its 160 pages contain the poetry of more than 50 poets and feature four reviews of chapbooks. In spite of its title, Philadelphia Poets is not limited to the works of Philadelphians. Philadelphia Poets also sponsors many readings each year. The 2010 issue of Philadelphia Poets will be out sometime later in the spring. The issue is currently filled and submissions for the 2011 issue won’t be read until after the 2010 number comes out.www.home.comcast.net/~redrose108 In spite of its title, Philadelphia Poets is not limited to the works of Philadelphians. To purchase a copy of Philadelphia Poets, send $15 ($12 plus $3 postage), check drawn to the order of Rosemary Cappello, 1919 Chestnut Street, Apartment 1721, Philadelphia, PA.19103. For further information, contact redrose108@comcast.net
The 36th edition of the Paterson Literary Review is out; it contains work by Diane di Prima, Al Tacconelli, Mary Jo Bona, Vittoria repetto, Mary Ann Mannino, George Guida, Denise Cavetti, Magdalena Alagna among others. See http://old.pccc.edu/poetry/public.htm for price and order form.
Pyramid Arts and Poetry Magazine – “Where Rome and New York Meet” Pyramid Arts and Poetry is divided into three sections: Visual Art; Poetry & Literature; and Film. Listings of gallery exhibits, poetry readings, and film showings in New York and Rome accompany each section. For submission guidelines, visit http://www.pyramidmagazine.org
VIA, Voices in Italian Americana, is a semi-annual published in the spring and fall. Issues include sections of essays, fiction, poetry, review essays, reviews, and guest spots by prominent Italian/American writers. Subscriptions are $20.00 per year ($15.00 for seniors, students, and un[der]employed). For subscriptions & advertising, contact Anthony Julian Tamburri at tamburri@bordigherapress.org
Italian Americana is the first and only cultural as well as historical review dedicated to the Italian experience in the New World; subscription price is $20 a year, $35 for two years, to: Italian Americana, University of Rhode Island/Providence, 80 Washington Street Providence, RI 02903-1803. Check out the new Website supplement to the journal at www.italianamericana.com
The Monday Night Playwrights’ Series is curated by Richard Fulco; interested playwrights could submit their work at richardfulco@aol.com
Theatre Submissions: Post Road Magazine (Boston, Ma), a literary/visual arts journal, is accepting theatre submissions of very short one-act plays, sketches, and monologues. david@postroadmag.com
The American Italian Historical Association Newsletter is now accepting submissions of book reviews. Please send all submissions Anthony.Tamburri@qc.cuny.edu.
Accenti Magazine #18 (Spring 2010) http://www.accenti.ca/ Available on newsstands or by subscription. Order single copies at accenti@accenti.ca Info: (514) 329-3254 (106) / accenti@accenti.ca
Call for Papers:
Reshaping
Italian American Identity: 42nd Annual Convention, Northeast Modern
Language Association (NEMLA) April 7-10, 2011
New Brunswick, NJ.
Hyatt New Brunswick Host Institution: Rutgers University
This
interdisciplinary panel seeks papers focusing on the question of
identity within the Italian American community from different
perspectives. Research in the fields of history, ethnography,
literature, sociology and anthropology over the past decades have
demonstrated how the building process of an identity remains an open
quandary, especially with regard to the Italian American experience.
The mediatic imagery of the last years (mis)portraying the Italian
American adults as "Sopranos" or the youth culture as a
world of "Guidos" and "Guidettes" (e.g. Jersey
Shore) demonstrates the complexity of a shaped Italian American
identity undergoing a process of adaptation. Globalization, social
networks and media have also contributed to the development of an
awareness that up to the 70's was limited only to the fortunate ones
who could go back to Italy in search of their roots. Traveling to
Italy as conditio sine qua non for the development of a solid Italian
American identity seems to have been gradually replaced by surfing
the net in search for an alternative "italianità".
Possible
topics may include, but not limited to: Identity formation and the
Italian American experience, Global vs. local identities, Italian
and/or Italian American perceptions of italianità, Identity
and fashion, food, life style, Historical evolution/involution of
identity, Use/abuse of stereotypes in media representations, Be
American, act Italian, Intergenerational conflict, Transnational
lives
The presentation should be no longer than
fifteen-minutes (7-8 pages). Please send a 500-word abstract and a
brief biography by September 1st 2010 to Arianna Fognani:
fognani@eden.rutgers.edu.
Please include with your abstract: Name and Affiliation, Email
address, Postal address, Telephone number, A/V requirements (if any;
$10 handling fee with registration)
The 42nd Annual Convention
will feature approximately 360 sessions, as well as pre-conference
workshops, dynamic speakers and cultural events. Details and the
complete Call for Papers for the 2011 Convention will be posted in
June: www.nemla.org
Courses:
New
Italian American Literature course at Borough of Manhattan
Community
College.
The course is ENG 360: Italian American
Literature and it will be offered for the first time at BMCC during
the fall 2010 semester. The section number, days, times, and rooms
are below. The instructor is Professor Caroline Pari-Pfisterer.
ENG 360-121- M- 12:00 - 12:50pm ]N773 – W-12:00 - 1:40pm -
S604
Italian American literature surveys fiction, poetry, and
drama throughout the history of Italian Americans in the United
States beginning in the first half of the twentieth century and
continuing into contemporary America. This literature will be
considered in the context of recurring themes in the artistically
framed experiences of Italian Americans beginning in the first half
of the twentieth century and continuing into contemporary America:
cultural-national identity conflict, anti-colonization by church and
state, religion, gender relations, generational differences and
relations, class conflict, for example working class vs. the
bourgeois, or working class immigrant and sons and daughters vs. the
dominant American culture, the problem of education in early Italian
American history, the dilemma of cultural and linguistic loss,
intercultural conflict, intracultural conflict, family values,
oppression, social dysfunction, and assimilation.
Conferences and Workshops:
The 3 Fs in Italian Cultures Conference: Critical Approaches to Food, Fashion, and Film
Suggested paper topics include, but are not limited to:
The history and culture of la miseria (poverty and hunger).
Notions of authenticity and nostalgia in the invention of an Italian cuisine.
Food as labor, e.g., the domestic kitchen, African immigrants in Calabria.
Food as spectacle, e.g. sagre, the religious street feste, TV cooking shows.
Regional Italian-American hybrids; e.g., St. Louis toasted raviolis, New Orleans muffuletta, Manhattan clam chowder, Binghamton spiedie.
Cinematic depictions of food, e.g., Big Night, Dinner Rush.
Literary depictions of food.
Cinematic, culinary, and fashion tourism, e.g., slumming in Little Italies, agriturismo,
film festivals.
The Italian diaspora as a market for Italian food and film.
Current trends in Italian-Australian and Italian-Canadian filmmaking.
Film and fashion, e.g., Roma, Blood and Black Lace, Valentino: The Last Emperor.
Abstracts for scholarly papers (up to 250 words, plus a note on technical requirements, and a brief curriculum vitae) should be emailed as an attached document, by September 15, 2010, to calandra@qc.edu , to whom other inquiries may also be addressed.
We encourage the submission of organized panels (of no more than three presenters). Submission for a panel must be made by a single individual on behalf of the group, with all the paper titles, abstract narratives, and individual curricula vitae.
Proposals to present creative work must include the work itself (plus a note on technical requirements, and a brief curriculum vitae). Films or videos must be mailed as a DVD by the deadline to The 3 Fs in Italian Cultures Conference, Calandra Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, New York, NY 10036.
All proposals will be evaluated anonymously through peer review and prospective presenters may expect to be advised of their acceptance or otherwise by December 1, 2010. The Calandra Institute cannot fund conference participants’ travel and/or accommodations.
Websites:
Anthony Buccino has created a blog for New Jersey poets to post info about events, links to their web sites and publishers and literary magazines. You can get email notices- no strings attached – when new items are posted. http://njpoetspoetry.blogspot.com/
www.BigFatPrize.com lists over 500 Writing Contests and competition categories like Essay, Fiction, Poetry, Short Story, Young Writers, Songwriting, Screenwriting, Playwright and Journalism
Working Writer newsletter offers solid information with a good dose of humor and a spirit of writing camaraderie. WW is filled with articles on promotion, publishing, freelancing, different genres, how-to, and how-not-to, written by readers across the country. To receive a free copy (no obligation) by e-mail , send a request to workingwriters@aol.com. Or check out www.workingwriter1.com
I-Italy: The Italian American Digital Project (http://www.i-italy.org) is online. This site is a forum for discussion and debate over Italian American social and cultural issues, home to numerous Italian American blogs, and the place to read leading Italian American commentators columns on Italian American life.
Readers are requested to visit www.italianamericanpress.com to order or obtain information about the fascinating books listed below written by Italian Americans on a variety of interesting topics. At The Italian-American Press, there are links for finding translators, a literary marketplace, and writers’ guilds, aside from links such as Tools for Italian American Writers, Italian American Books, Italian American Publishers, and the Internet’s best selection of self-published Italian American Books (84 Titles).
KIT-Kairos Italy Theater’s mission is to create a cultural exchange program between Italy, the US and the international community, to unveil artistic and creative sides of these two countries to the world. http://www.kitheater.com/
New York Foundation for the Arts, Visit NYFA Source, the most comprehensive database of awards, services, and publications available to artists in all disciplines. www.nyfa.org/
The Write Stuff – Online Newsletter of Word Journeys at www.wordjourneys.com contains articles on self-publishing, new services and grist for the pen: tips.
The ACLS History E-Book Project www.historyebook.org is an electronic resource that includes over 1230 full-text, cross-searchable books in the field of history selected by historians for their continuing importance to students and scholars. Individuals can also subscribe through a membership in the American Historical Association or the Renaissance Society of America.
Accenti, The Canadian Magazine with an Italian Accent at www.accenti.ca/
The AA Independent Press Guide is a free, online resource for writers at http://www.thunderburst.co.uk. The guide has detailed listings on over 2,000 literary and genre magazines and publishers from around the world, plus links to over 750 Internet magazines.
www.virtualitalia.com is an online resource for Italians, Italian Americans and enthusiasts of Italian culture.
www.littap.org is a new resource for literary presenters, with tools such as Guidelines for Writers Fees. In addition to featuring Italian American, Italian Canadian and Italian writers, the site has reviews and links to the sites of writers of Italian Australian, Italian French and Italian Latino American origins.
For the calendar of events for the Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, go to http://www.nyu.edu/pages/casaitaliana/events.html
For the calendar of events for the Italian Academy at Columbia University, go to http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/calendar/calendar.html
The Immigration History Research Center is at http://www.ihrc.umn.edu
See Poets & Writers for leads to prizes for writers, and places to get away and write, links to grants, conferences and residencies. http://www.pw.org/toolsforwriters
Of Interest:
Summer Workshops w/ Nancy Azara
Monday – Friday Aug 16 – 20 Rubbings and Tracings as Memoir
$700 members ($750
non-members) Lab fee
$35
http://www.wsworkshop.org/_class/sai_bookart.htm
Register by mail, or call (845) 658-9133
Rosendale, New
York
Saturday, August 7 Visual Diaries, Conscious-Raising,
Art-Making Workshop
For more information, nancy@nancyazara.com or 212-925-5777
Study of Contemporary History in Italy: The National Institute for the History of the Liberation Movement in Italy (INSMLI), with the Italian Scientists and Scholars in North America Foundation (ISSNAF), offers to University students, graduate students , researchers and Faculty from the US and Canada the exceptional opportunity to access INSMLI’s outstanding collections of information, primary sources, books and studies available in its libraries and archives (which contain both paper and photographic records), on the XXth century history of Italy , particularly in the following fields: (a) Fascism and Antifascism (b) Colonialism and Post-colonialism
(c)
World War II and Resistance (Liberation Movement) (d) History of the
Jews and Holocaust in Italy (e) History of Labor Movement and Trade
Unions Struggles (f) Mafia, Terrorism, and Years of Lead (Anni di
Piombo) (g) Women and Political Militance (XXth Century) (h) Public
and Private Memory: Sites, Museum, Symbols, and Languages
INSMLI’s docents, archives and libraries staff will be
available for assistance, orientation, and directives for locating,
accessing, consulting and using materials at INSMLI’ s centers
and institutes dedicated to the study of contemporary history of
Italy.
The institutes which are part of INSMLI’s network are
located in Bologna, Firenze, Milano, Napoli, Padova, Torino, Trieste
e Venezia. Each institute offers the assistance of a tutor, assigned
shelves and carrels, and free internet access to university students,
graduate and PhD students, researchers and teachers who apply for
visiting positions to conduct research at one of the INSMLI centers
for a period of at least 15 days (two weeks), in the period between
September 27th and December 17th 2010 (Fall Term), and between March
7th and May 20th, 2011 (Spring Term). Working knowledge / good
knowledge of Italian is required for being able to consult primary
sources and archival materials.
How to Apply Applications
(written in Italian or English) must be sent by email to
segreteria@insmli.it
Deadlines August 31, 2010 for the Fall Term visit January 31, 2011
for the Spring Term
Other Requirements Applicant must also send a
short summary of the research project (50-100 words); a letter
written by the research Advisor for students, or, for researchers and
faculty, a curriculum vitae.
Applicant must indicate the host
center which she/he will be committed to accept, listing her/his
preferences, and the period/ periods of the visit. The selection
will be made according to the topic of research and the receiving
dates of application.
Address of INSMLI Portal for more
information
http://www.italia-liberazione.it/en/enchisiamo.php?lingua=en
College/university professors, researchers & librarians request repeal of HB 2281 Please consider signing this online petition and passing it on to others.
Targeting: The President of the United States, The Governor of AZ, The AZ State Senate, see more...The President of the United States, The Governor of AZ, The AZ State Senate and The AZ State House
Started by: Laura E. Ruberto
As concerned college and university professors, researchers, and librarians from across the United States, we are writing to request that the Arizona State legislature repeal HB 2281. We represent multiple and diverse academic disciplines and together voice our concern about Governor Jan Brewer's signing into law HB 2281, and thereby banning ethnic studies(includes Italian American studies) classes in public and charter K-12 classrooms in Arizona.
Diasporic Continuities: A Salon Discussion Point on the Changing Face of Italian Unification on the Verge of its 150th Anniversaryhttp://disunification.blogspot.com/
How you can join the conversation: Still a work in progress, for now, please join the conversation by commenting on one of the existing posts or become a follower of the discussions. If you would like to post something yourself (rather than comment), please email LauraRuberto (lruberto@peralta.edu) or Pasquale Verdicchio (pverdicchio@yahoo.com)
Association of Friends of Piedmont in New York
We are a group of artists, professionals, scientists and business owners sharing an interest for the Piedmont Region, either because we were born there or because we appreciate the contribution that people from Piedmont have made to the arts, sciences and industry. You can learn more about the Association at http://piedmontinnewyork.blogspot.com
Vittoria repetto rents her charming vacation house in Framura, in the Ligurian region on a weekly to monthly basis at a reasonable price. It is the perfect place for vacation especially great if you are a writer or a painter. The occupancy is for 4 people; there are 2 bedrooms. The town is 3 towns north of the Cinqueterre towns. For detailed information and pictures, http://www.homeaway.com/vacation-rental/p211239
Italian American Writers, a Cablevision television series hosted by Vito De Simone, runs each month on many New York area and other Cablevision systems, including Manhattan, Long Island and some Brooklyn systems. Check local listings for channels and times.
The New York-based Italian-American Playwrights Forum meets at the Calandra Institute three Thursdays a month to develop plays and carry out discussions about Italian-American identity/themes. The work itself does not have to be about an Italian-American theme. Please contact Gian Di Donna gian@att.net for information.