Poets of the Italian Diaspora Bilingual Reading on Thursday, Oct. 28 at Cornelia St. Cafe
Poets of the Italian Diaspora Bilingual Reading on Thursday, Oct. 28 at Cornelia St. Cafe
IAWA presents contributors who will read selections from the forthcoming anthology -- POETS OF THE ITALIAN DIASPORA -- to be released in December, 2010 by Fordham University Press.
The Italian American Writers Association is pleased to present Luigi Bonaffini, Chairman of the Dept.
of Modern Languages and Literatures at Brooklyn College with IAWA co-curator, board member and author, Gil Fagiani, who will host a bilingual reading in Italian and English from Poets of the Italian Diaspora: from Latin America to Australia, edited by Bonaffini and Joseph Perricone from Fordham University Press.
Poets of the Italian Diaspora is part of a long-range project, by the editors and contributors, to expand the boundaries of the Italian literary canon.
Featured readers will include Emelise Aleandri, Luigi Bonaffini, Peter Carravetta, Gaetano Cipolla, Gil Fagiani, Luigi Fontanella, Irene Marchigiani, Fiorentina Russo, Michael Palma, and Joseph Perricone.
In the century between 1870 and 1970, about 27 million migrants left Italy to work and live abroad. As a result, the worldwide Italian diaspora reportedly numbers more than sixty million people. Until now, however, there has not been an anthology devoted to the literature of the Italian diaspora that places it in a global context. This landmark volume presents a truly international selection of works by more than seventy Italian-language poets who are writing in countries from Australia to Venezuela. Their poetry is collected here into 11 geographical regions. The history and current state of Italian-language poetry in each region receives a critical overview by a knowledgeable scholar, who also introduces each poet and provides a bibliography of his or her work. All poems appear on facing pages in both Italian and English.
The 1,115 page book will be released in December, 2010 priced at $35.
The reading takes place Thursday, October 28, 2010, 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm at the Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, (212-989-9319); www.corneliastreetcafe.com). The evening starts with Open Mic readings of five minutes each. IAWA is a 501(3)©not-for-profit corporation. Since 1991, the organization has given voice to writers through its Open Reading series at Cornelia St. Café every month. For membership information, visit www.iawa.net