Packed as always with news of readings and other events, new books, writings, and other publications, resources and opportunities, the March 2013 newsletter of the Italian American Writers Association is now available at www.iawa.net. Kicking off the month is the regular reading at NY's Cornelia Street Cafe, Saturday, March 9.

Featured Readers for March are John Barrale & Anthony DiRenzo
A founding member of the Rutherford, NJ-based Red Wheelbarrow Poetry Workshop, John Barrale 's poetry collection Shakespeare's Moths was published by White Chicken Press in 2012. His poetry has appeared in such journals as Poetalk, New Jersey Journal of Poets, The Lullwater Review, California Quarterly, Tiger's Eye Journal, The William and Mary Review and Paterson Literary Review.

Anthony Di Renzo teaches writing and Italian American history at Ithaca College. He will read from Bitter Greens: Essays on Food, Politics, and Ethnicity from the Imperial Kitchen, (State University of New York Press, 2010). His forthcoming book Trinàcria: A Tale of Bourbon Sicily (Guernica Press), is a historical novel of the destruction of the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies during the Italian Revolution in the 18th century. His poetry has appeared in Voices in Italian Americana and other journals.

Saturday, March 9, 2013
5:45 PM – 7:45 PM
Poetry and Prose Features plus Open Mike
Cornelia St. Café
29 Cornelia Street, Manhattan
212-989-9319 www.corneliastreetcafe.com