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March 12, 2011

IAWA Special Events: Triangle Reading, March 18 + Bilingual Reading...and More

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IAWA is among the many sponsors of events surrounding the commemoration of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire that took place on March 25, 1911

Cities across the country are staging performances, readings, special events to commemorate the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire that took the lives of 146 young immigrant women...

February 21, 2011

IAWA Presents Susan Scutti and Pauline Spatafora on Saturday, March 12, 2011

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Dear Sister is based on actual letters written by the author’s mother to her aunt in Sicily during World War II.

On Saturday, March 12, 2011, the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) invites the prolific and daring Susan Scutti whose work has appeared in dozens of in-print and online...

January 31, 2011

IAW Presents Ginsberg Poetry Award Honorees--Buccino and Giura on Saturday, February 12, 2011

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Booted, bumped, down-sized, fired, forced out, hated, hired, jobless, laid off, let go, out of work, out-sourced, pink-slipped, terminated, sacked, unemployed

Saturday, February 12, 2011, the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) invites – Anthony Buccino and Maria Giura -- both of whom won Honorable Mention in the Allen...

January 18, 2011

Mid-Island Y JCC Poetry Series Presents Maria Lisella, Sunday, January 23, 7 pm

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Maria Lisella will read from her Pushcart Poetry Prize-Nominated work in Two Naked Feet and Amore on Hope St. at the Mid-Island Y JCC Poetry Series hosted by Gayl Teller.

The Mid-Island Y Jewish Community Center's Poetry Reading Series, which is held one Sunday a month, will feature Maria Lisella, co-curator for the Italian American Writers...

January 4, 2011

IAWA Presents Award-winning Author, Paola Corso and Lisa Marie Basile, on Saturday, January 8, 2011 at Cornelia St. Cafe

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Of Catina's Haircut, Publishers Weekly writes: "Fable-like...the stories...find moments of inspired, ethereal revelation."

New York, NY- On Saturday, January 8, 2011, the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) invites two New York-based writers, Lisa Marie Basile, who unites poetry with politics...

December 6, 2010

IAWA Presents award-winning poet and teacher, Alison Koffler and Jim Pignetti, brevitas co-founder on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010

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BRIO Award-winner, Koffler's work often straddles that uneasy space between the worlds of human and nature.

The three rules of IAWA: Write or be written, Read each other and Buy our books.

December 3, 2010

The Brownstone Poets Features Maria Lisella and Harry Bentivegna Sat. Dec 4, 2:30 p.m.

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Brownstone Poets was founded by Patricia Carragon who hosts and curates the Brooklyn-based Brownstone Poets, formally the Park Slope Poetry Society, at the Park Plaza Restaurant in Brooklyn Heights and at Tillies of Brooklyn in Ft. Greene and is the editor of the annual Brownstone Poets Anthology. She was one of the hosts for the SOS ABC NO RIO Sunday Open Series on the Lower East Side.

Patricia Carragon curates this Poetry Series that takes place on first Saturdays at the Park Plaza Restaurant in Park Slope, Brooklyn.

November 12, 2010

IAWA Presents Laurie Fabiano and Egidio Coccimiglio on Saturday, November 13, 2010

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Based on true events, ELIZABETH STREET is a multigenerational saga that opens in an Italian village in the 1900's, and crosses the ocean to New York's Lower East Side.

On Saturday, November 13, 2010 the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) is joined by Laurie Fabiano, author of Elizabeth Street and film director and screenwriter, Egidio...

October 22, 2010

Poets of the Italian Diaspora Bilingual Reading on Thursday, Oct. 28 at Cornelia St. Cafe

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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. http://www.i-italy.orghttp://www.fordhampress.com/detail.html?id=9780823232543

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...

September 28, 2010

IAWA Features “Edgy Voices” of Canada’s John Calabro and Gil Fagiani on Sat., Oct. 9, 2010

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John Calabro will read from the newly released The Cousin, published by Quattro Books

On Saturday, October 9, 2010 the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) is joined by Association of Canadian Italian Writers member, John Calabro of Toronto and IAWA co-host,...

September 10, 2010

IAWA Presents Readings by Rosalind Palermo Stevenson and Phyllis Carito on Saturday, September 11, 2010

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Barely a Whisper, Carito's chapbook published by Finishing Line Press

New York, NY- On Saturday, September, 2010 the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) continues to celebrate its 19th Anniversary with award-winning author Rosalind Palermo...

August 7, 2010

IAWA Presents Revolutionaries and Poetry Dog Tags with Readings from Jennifer Guglielmo and Clare Ultimo on Saturday, August 14

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Living the Revolution: Italian Women's Resistance and Radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945

New York, NY- On Saturday, August 14, 2010 the Italian American Writers Association (IAWA) continues to celebrate its 19th Anniversary with historian and author Jennifer Guglielmo...

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