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Ethnic recitations in Elko.
John Giorno, Vic Ruggiero, Penny Arcade, and John La Barbera to perform in support of the Calandra Institute.
Poet Diana di Prima offers alternative Italian-American heroes to Columbus.
Over the next several months, I will be presenting the book Italian Folk in venues throughout the New York metropolitan area.
The Italian-American “experience” is anything but singular.
Poet, visual artist, raconteur, singer, immigrant laborer, friend.
A little piece of drivel by Jack Kerouac begs the question, What's Italian-American about On The Road?
I am reminded of Eugenio Montale's haunting poem upon discovering a simple barrier wall built by an Italian immigrant in Brooklyn during the 1930s.
In joyous celebration of April’s National Poetry Month and Fool’s Day, I offer these four “found poems” made entirely from tags I found on i-italy.org.
Poet Vincent Ferrini, 1913-2007