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IAWA Italian American Writers Association P.O. Box 418 Brooklyn, NY 11215 www.iawa.net [email protected] IAWA supports Italian Italian American Writers American Writing. Association Please support IAWA. April 2012 Newsletter, December 2013 You can make a donation “Only silence is shame.” –Bartolomeo Vanzetti through PayPal at www.iawa.net. Saturday, December 14, 2013 Suggested donations: 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Membership $30 (students and seniors $20) Gerard “Gerry” LaFemina and Since 1991, the Associate $100-249 Joanne Monte organization has Patron $250-499 given voice to Founder $500-1000 Sidewalk Café writers through its Open Reading 94 Avenue A & 6th Street, Manhattan series every If you prefer to send a check, 212-473-7373 month. make it payable to “Italian www.sidewalkny.com American Writers Association,” and send it to the following $8 minimum includes one drink. address: Come in time to sign up at 5:30. 5 minute time limit for open mic. Treasurer, Italian American Writers Association, The Italian American Writers Association P.O. Box 418, Brooklyn, NY (IAWA) presents Bordighera Press prize-winning 11215 writers Gerry LaFemina and Joanne Monte. Gerard “Gerry” LaFemina is the author of eleven books of fiction and poetry. His most recent publications are the novel Clamor, and a collection of prose poems, Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist. LaFemina is the recipient of numerous awards and honors, including a Pushcart Prize, the Bordighera Poetry Prize, the Anthony Piccione Memorial Award and fellowships Send announcements of readings and literary events by the 15th of from the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs the preceding month to Lisa and the Irving Gilmore Emerging Artists Foundation. He Paolucci at [email protected]. directs the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing at Please format in third person and Frostburg State University, where he is an Associate in this order for events: Day, Date, Professor of English, and co-directs the new Lunar Walk Type of event, Event and Name of Reading Series at the Two Moon Art House and Cafe in Participants, Time, Place of event Brooklyn. Visit www.gerrylafemina.net . and address, Admission price; Contact information Web site. We do not open attachments; please Joanne Monte isthe recipient of the 2012 put all announcements in the body Bordighera Poetry Prize for the collection The Blue Light of your email in plain text only; we of Dawn. Her poems have appeared in such literary can't use jpg or anything in all caps. Thank you! journals as Poet Lore, The Raintown Review, Cerberus, Ancient Paths Literary Review, and Poet. Among her awards are The John David Johnson Memorial Poetry Award, The Writer's Digest Award and the New Millennium Writings Award IV for Poetry. She also published a novel, The Day to Eternity, in 2012. In 1999, the American Biographical Institute selected her as one of two thousand notable American women for her literary and humanitarian contributions Visitwww.poetsusa.com/MonteJoanne.html Note: IAWA-East launched at Sidewalk Café in April and takes place on the even months. IAWA-West continues at Cornelia Street Café during the odd months. Get Involved If you are interested in participating in IAWA event planning, please contact Robert Agnoli at [email protected]. We welcome your involvement! Upcoming IAWA Readings January 11, 2014: Linda Baldanzi and Stephen Massimilla at Cornelia Street Café. February 8, 2014: James Mammarella and Maria Mazziotti Gillan at Sidewalk Café. March 8, 2014: Christopher Castellani at Cornelia Street Café. The Launching of IAWA-East April marked the inauguration of a second venue for the Italian American Writers Association’s (IAWA) Literary Reading Series, one of the longest-running series in New York City that began in 1991. Sidewalk Café in New York City’s East Village will host IAWA-East bimonthly readings during the even months of June, August, October and December and IAWA- West readings will continue during the odd months of May, July, September and November at Cornelia Street Café in the West Village. The Italian American literary canon has grown exponentially over the past 20 years. Among the literary luminaries who have been featured at IAWA are Poets House Executive Director, Lee Briccetti; Chelsea Magazine founder and editor, Alfredo de Palchi; Beat poet and activist, Diane di Prima; translator and CEO of Farrar Straus and Giroux, Jonathan Galassi; and Maria Gillan, Daniela Gioseffi, Jo Gattuso Hendin, Frank Lentricchia, Jim Shepherd, Gay Talese and IAWA co-founder and president Robert Viscusi, author of Astoria and Ellis Island. IAWA also presents a bilingual series of readings with internationally-recognized translator Luigi Bonaffini. IAWA Joins One Percent for Culture Campaign IAWA joined the One Percent for Culture campaign as have hundreds of other organizations in New York City. One Percent for Culture is a non-partisan, grassroots, five-borough campaign whose mission is to demonstrate the value of culture to New York City. The campaign will generate private and public support for an increase in the city’s financial commitment to the nonprofit cultural community, including artists of all disciplines, to a full one percent of the municipal expense budget. New York City’s 1,200 plus cultural organizations and thousands of artists are essential to the economy and identity of the city, creating more than 100,000 jobs and generating $7.6 billion in economic activity. And yet, nonprofit culture receives less than one-fourth of one percent of the overall city expense budget. Individuals are also encouraged to join the campaign by signing on at [http://www.oneforculture.org/]. Upcoming Events Tuesday, December 3 Reading: Maria Terrone and 10 other authors who are members of The National Arts Club, 8 pm, The National Arts Club, 15 Gramercy Park South, Manhattan, free. For info: [email protected]. Wednesday, December 4 Reading: Marisa Frasca, renowned poet and IAWA board member, will be the featured reader at the William Carlos Williams Center Poetry Reading Series at 7:00 PM. The William Carlos Williams Center is located at One Williams Plaza in Rutherford, NJ. Admission is free and there is an open mic with generous reading times. All are welcome. The monthly WCW Reading Series is now in its 7th year and going strong. Please come join us for a memorable evening of poetry and community. Thursday, December 5 Film: Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy (2009), 77 min. Roman Paska, dir. In Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, actor John Turturro takes audiences on a haunting, intimate journey to his maternal homeland of Sicily. While exploring the island’s vanishing traditions, he is taken under the wing of Mimmo Cuticchio, one of the few remaining practitioners of opera dei pupi, the distinctively Sicilian art of puppetry. Filmed during preparations for I Morti, the Sicilian observation of All Souls’ Day, this evocative, magical-realist documentary was directed by Turturro’s longtime collaborator Roman Paska, himself a world-renowned puppeteer. Paska’s film is both a portrait of Sicily and an homage to the art of storytelling. Post-screening discussion with the director led by Joseph Sciorra, Calandra Institute. 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm. Free & Open to the Public. John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, 25 West 43rd Street, 17th floor, New York, New York 10036 (Between 5th and 6th Avenues; B, D, F, M to 42nd St./Bryant Park, or 7 to 5th Ave./Bryant Park). RSVP encouraged but not required, (212) 642-2094. Please note that seating is limited and we cannot reserve seats. For further information see www.qc.edu/calandra. Friday, December 6 and Saturday, December 7 International Conference: “Liberty and Conflict: Machiavelli on Politics and Power.” 2013-2014 annual meeting of the Conference for the Study of Political Thought. Organized by David Johnston and Nadia Urbinati (both of the Department of Political Science, Columbia). Columbia University, Department of Political Science, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (south of 118th Street) New York, NY 10027. Free and open to the public. RSVP: http://www.italianacademy.columbia.edu/events_calendar.html Saturday, December 7 IAWA Board Member Amy Barone will present her poetry chapbook, Views from the Driveway, at Ludington Library’s first Local Author Book Fair from 2 to 4 p.m. Ludington Library is located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania at 5 South Bryn Mawr Avenue, off Lancaster Avenue. Monday, December 9 Lecture: “Images of Myth and Images of Life: On the Use and Abuse of Common Dichotomy” by Luca Giuliani, (Rector of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin - Institute of Advanced Study and Professor of Greek and Roman Archaeology at the Humboldt Universität). Prof. Giuliani will address the art historical distinctions between "Peinture d'Histoire" and "Peinture de Genre" and discuss the way in which the failed attempts to apply similar distinctions to ancient Greek iconography can be a good starting point for understanding how the iconography actually works. Free and open to the public. Reserve at www.italianacademy.columbia.edu. The Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (just south of 118th Street), New York, NY 10025 www.italianacademy.columbia.edu Tuesday, December 10 Lecture: “Socrates as a Satyr: A Conundrum in the History of Greek Portraiture” by Luca Giuliani with Maria Luisa Catoni via Skype from Europe. They will examine Socrates' physiognomy as it was famously described in two types of documents: the first portrait statue of Socrates and the two dialogues entitled "Symposium" written by Plato and by Xenophon. Both types of documents present Socrates as a satyr, and each raises similar chronological and interpretative problems. Free and open to the public. Reserve at www.italianacademy.columbia.edu. The Italian Academy, 1161 Amsterdam Avenue (just south of 118th Street), New York, NY 10025 www.italianacademy.columbia.edu Wednesday, December 11 Performance: Music of Franco Donatoni performed by ensemble mise-en, directed by Moon Young Ha.