The San Gennaro Festival began 86 years ago.

Claudia Cotrutza French designed the cover for Maxime's first collection, "Rooted" to be published by New York Quarterly Books.

Brooklyn-based author, "Krissy" Gasbarre of How to Love an American Man: A True Story (HarperCollins, 2011) features this weekend.

Best known as a pop culture chronicler, Allegretti's latest book Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not-Poems was published by Poets Wear Prada this year.

Contino's book, Born to Create chronicles her transition from being a seventh-grade English teacher to a new-found career in the arts.

LaRosa was a clueless kid growing up in a Bronx housing project when he discovered there might be more to life. As the projects went from idyllic to dangerous, Paul made his way to The New York Daily News where he became a copyboy and later a reporter.

Ethnic Encounters is IAWA's latest series of literary events that features writers of various ethnic backgrounds. The series is often bilingual.

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..."

"Good writing is a type of skating," Ralph Waldo Emerson