Phyllis Capello’s work has appeared in The Dream Book, From the Margin, The Voices We Carry, Don’t Tell Mama, The Milk of Almonds, Creative Nonfiction, Our Roots Are Deep with Passion, Reading, Writing and Reacting, and in many journals such as The New York Quarterly, The Wind in Our Sails, The Little Magazine, Legendaria, Mothering, The Paterson Literary R

eview, Literary Mama & Journey Into Motherhood.
    A New York Foundation for the Arts fellow in fiction, her songs and stories about the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire are collected in On the Breath were presented at the International Oral History Conference in Rome.
    MaryAnn L. Miller, M.Ed. MFA, will read from her debut poetry collection, Locus Mentis that was published by PS Books the small press division of Philadelphia Stories magazine. Her poetry won Special Mention for the Petracca Award presented by the literary journal, Philadelphia Poets and Kaleidoscope magazine will feature more of her work in July, 2012.
    Of Locus Mentis, J.C. Todd writes, “You’ve got to revel in MaryAnn Miller’s poems: their wild variety, humor, dead-on truth. Their poetic high-jinks…their vivid detail seen through a painter’s trained eye. With wit, verve and devastating delicacy, the language peels back the layers of a long life of looking hard to reveal the human coordinates...”
     Miller has been the Resident Book Artist at the Experimental Printmaking Institute, Lafayette College since 2001. She has been a contributing writer on women in the arts for Garden State Woman magazine;  her feature on artist Willie Cole was recently published in the International Review of African American Arts.
    The reading takes place Saturday, April 14, 2011, 5:45 p.m. to 7:45 p.m., at the Cornelia St. Café, 29 Cornelia Street, NYC, (212-989-9319). The evening starts with Open Mic 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. For membership information, visit www.iawa.net