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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...

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.

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.

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