Anne Marie Macari's most recent book, She Heads Into the Wilderness, was published in 2008 by Autumn House Press.

She is also the author of Gloryland (Alice James, 2005) and her first book, Ivory Cradle, won the APR/Honickman first book prize in 2000.          Macari’s work has been widely published in magazines such as Poetry International, The American Poetry Review, Five Points, TriQuarterly, Bloomsbury Review, Shenandoah, The American Poetry Review, The Cortland Review and The Iowa Review, and in anthologies including From the Fishouse (Persea Books, 2009) and Never Before: Poems About First Experiences (Four Way Books).  Macari founded and directs the low-residency MFA program in poetry and poetry in translation at Drew University. She currently serves on the Alice James Books Cooperative Board.

Robert Viscusi a professor at Brooklyn College and is Executive Officer at the Ethyle R. Wolfe  Institute for the Humanities, has published Astoria: A Novel (Guernica, 1995; American Book Award 1996), An Oration upon the Most Recent Death of Christopher Columbus (longpoem, VIA Folios, 1993), A New Geography of Time  (Guernica , 2004),  Buried Caesars, and Other Secrets of Italian American Writing (critical history, SUNY Press, 2006); Premio Giuseppe Acerbi, 2008.   His present project is an epic poem entitled Ellis Island, currently appearing in parts. One can read random sonnets (a vast number of them) based upon the whole text at the website [ellisislandpoem.com].  Next year, Bordighera Press will publish the full text.

The reading takes place Saturday, December 10, 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