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Benefit Concert for Calandra Institute, June 10th

Joey Skee

John Giorno, Vic Ruggiero, Penny Arcade, and John La Barbera to perform in support of the Calandra Institute.

Benefit Concert for Calandra Institute, June 10th

Joey Skee

John Giorno, Vic Ruggiero, Penny Arcade, and John La Barbera to perform in support of the Calandra Institute.

Ricordando Vincenzo Ancona

Joey Skee

Poet, visual artist, raconteur, singer, immigrant laborer, friend.

Found Gangster Poem

Joey Skee

The following lines come from an email sent to i-italy.org editors who, in turn, shared it with me. The words are quoted verbatim and in the order in which they were written, but...

Italianità alternativa

Joey Skee*

“Who, or more precisely, what is an Italian American? To some self-appointed arbiters of italianità, the answer is: Roman Catholic, conservative, and indisputably heterosexual..

Plato and Mafia Movies

Tom Verso

“...there is an old quarrel between philosophy and poetry” Plato

A wall, a poem, a summer epiphany.

Joey Skee

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.

Brigand or Emigrant, but Ultimately Film Protagonist

Joey Skee

Representations of brigands have shaped and continue to reshape perceptions of Italy and its people throughout the world.

Tags I Like

Joey Skee

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.

Ottava Rima in Bensonhurst

Joey Ski

In a social club in Brooklyn, the lost poetry of a Sicilian contadino is heard again.

Bordighera Prize. Happiness in Poetry

Michelina Zambella

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute welcomed the winner of this year’s Bordighera Poetry Prize, Tony Magistrale for “What She Says About Love”; the first...

A rebel, between past and future

Letizia Airos Soria

You could listen to him for hours, days on end; his words are of an intense existence. Aldo Tambellini relates pieces of his life and lets himself take off on a roll, only slowed...

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