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The Italian Diaspora Studies Association is pleased to announce the launch of a new residential writing seminar. It will be held at the Grand Hotel San Michele, located in Cetraro (Cosenza), on the Northern Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria, May 22-31, 2025. This program inaugurates a collaborative project with the Ferrucci Institute for Italian Experie...

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When: Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 6:30 PM - Where: Hicksville Public Library, 169 Jerusalem Ave, Hicksville, NY, 11801 Join us as we listen to Poetry from the Italian Soul presented by RITA M. MONTE, poet and producer of the international radio show, Profumi D'Italia, on WHPC 90.3FM Nassau Community College. The reading will take place in the community ro...

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On April 1, at 6:30 pm., at Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, a group of doctoral students will come together to present Italian poetry of Guido Cavalcanti, Dante, Michelangelo, Tasso, Foscolo, and Leopardi up to Campana and Luzi.  The studies by students from various American universities,  establish stratified associations with diverse disciplines. T...

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Join us for a heartfelt journey through the intricate landscape of cultural identity and generational heritage as we sit down with the esteemed Italian American Poet, Artist, and Professor Maria Mazzotti-Gillan. Listen in as Professor Gillan shares her evocative poetry and personal stories at the Poetry Center at Passaic County Community College, p...

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After being uprooted from her life in Italy in 1968, Rita Monte turned to poetry to express how she felt about leaving her home country, which led her to a world of like-minded poets. Monte, Baldwin resident, wrote her first poem called “Italia” upon arriving from Italy at age 12. From there, she has won several poetry contests with some of her wor...

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After being uprooted from her life in Italy in 1968, Rita Monte turned to poetry to express how she felt about leaving her home country, which led her to a world of like-minded poets. Monte wrote her first poem, called “Italia,” upon arriving from her native land at the age of 12. She has won several poetry contests, with some of her work being fea...

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The literary prize of the city of Cetraro, Italy has been given to the poet Maria Mazziotti Gillan. As the newspaper headline there says, "Assegnato alla poetessa Maria Mazziotti Gillan il Premio letterario della città di Cetraro. Maria Mazziotti Gillan is the poet who this year was awarded the National Prize for Literature which takes its name fro...

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Italian American author Jo-Ann Vega’s debut poetry collection, Wolf Woman & Other Poems, is a Bronze Medal Winner in the Poetry category in Reader Views Reviewer’s Choice Awards, 2022-2023. Started in 2005, Reader Views is one of the most prestigious and longest-running book award competitions on the indie publishing scene. Reader Views uses a thre...

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The 2022 edition of the Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize will be judged by George Guida, Maria Famà, and distinguished judge Kathleen Ossip. The prize promotes the literature of the Italian diaspora and is open to poets of Italian descent writing poetry in English. The winning poet will be awarded $1000 and Bordighera Press will publish the manuscript, a...

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“But he’s famous!” goes a voice outside a bar in Trastevere. A footballer? Politician? Big Brother contestant? Film star? “Ok, was famous,” the voice concedes, meaning none of the above. Trilussa, or Carlo Salustri, to de-anagrammatise his real name, was a poet, and a dialect poet at that. Albeit the dialect is romanesco – the patois of Caput Mundi...

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