Come join us for IA, Italian American, Literati 2017! June 17, 2017 9:30 am to 1:00 pm. Keynote Speaker: BILLY LOMBARDO. Casa Italia Chicago--Italian Cultural Center--Florentine Room. 1621 N. 39th Street. Stone Park, Illinois 60165 (Intersection of 39th Street and Division Street)

"Billy Lombardo is the author of four books of fiction: The Logic of a Rose: Chicago Stories (BkMk Press 2005), How to Hold a Woman (Other Voices 2009), The Man With Two Arms (Overlook 2010), and the forthcoming, The Day of the Palindrome (Razorbill 2013). He is also the author of Meanwhile, Roxy Mourns, a book of poetry/prose. Billy is the co-founder and managing editor of Polyphony H.S., an international student-run literary magazine for high school writers and editors"