Amy Barone Features at bluestockings bookstore, Tuesday, July 31, 2012
(July 26, 2012)
Amy Barone’s poetry is inspired by five years of living in Italy, growing up outside Philadelphia in the 70's, and family conflict. IAWA Board member, Barone will read from Views from the Driveway as well as new work at bluestockings, a bookstore, fair trade cafe, and activist center on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.
WHAT: On Tuesday, July 31, at 7 p.m. Amy Barone will be one of two featured writers at Bluestockings Bookstore/Café [4]at the Women’s / Trans’ Poetry Jam & Open Mike, hosted by Vittoria Repetto. The jam has showcased the famous, the infamous, and the unknown for over a decade. Come out and deliver (up to) 8 minutes of your poetry, prose, songs and spoken word at the Open Mic for writers & musicians.
WHO: Amy Barone’s chapbook, Views from the Driveway, was published by Foothills Publishing. [5] A native of Bryn Mawr, PA, she spent five years as an Italian correspondent in Milan for Women's Wear Daily and Advertising Age. Her poetry has appeared in Gradiva, Wild Violet, Philadelphia Poets, The Pink Chameleon and several anthologies.
She’s a board member of the Italian American Writers Association [6] (IAWA) and participates at IAWA’s monthly literary series at the Cornelia Street Café.
WHERE & WHEN: Bluestockings Bookstore/Café at 172 Allen Street between Stanton and Rivington on the Lower East Side, one block south of Houston and 1st Avenue. Directions: one block south of the F train’s 2nd Avenue stop and 5 blocks from the JMZ-line’s Essex / Delancey Street stop.
Tuesday, July 31, 2012 7 to 9 p.m.
Suggested Contribution: $5
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Advertising Age [7] bluestockings bookstore [8] Bryn Mawr [9] Cornelia St. Cafe [10] Foothills Publishing [11] HealthCorps [12] Italian American Writers Association [13] Villanova University [14] Women's Wear Daily [15]