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Ilaria Serra, Florida Atlantic University “Immigrants left behind sweat and tears, but no memories,” wrote the Italian scholar Giuseppe Prezzolini, in his search for first-person…
Incomodo. Goffo. Brutto. Spiacevole. Mary Cappello’s immigrant grandfather traced these Italian words in the letters he wrote to her but never sent, words that speak…
A symposium presented by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. October 25, 2007 1-5PM Student Union Building, Room 301 Queens College Admission: Free “Italian-American…
During World War II more than 51,000 Italian soldiers were brought to the United States as prisoners of war. Camilla Calamandrei’s documentary Prisoners in Paradise…
“Luigi Fontanella moves between countries as an Italian who has lived in the United States for many years but returns often to his native land.…
Richard Alba, State University of New York-Albany In the United States, Italian Americans and other European groups from predominantly Catholic backgrounds provide a critical test…
After living together for seven years in New York City, Edward DeBonis and Vincent Maniscalco decide to get married. But unlike many other gay couples…
Vittoria Repetto’s precise, compact, and colloquial cadences in the poems of Not Just A Personal Ad (Guernica Editions, 2006) assemble the reality of growing up…
Michael Johanek and John Puckett, University of Pennsylvania Leonard Covello, Benjamin Franklin High School’s founding principal (1934-1956), along with his professional allies Vito Marcantonio, Fiorello…
Nine Good Teeth unfolds through the stories of 103-year-old Brooklyn-born, Sicilian-American Mary Mirabito. In an intimate and often hilarious portrait, the fiercely independent and outspoken…
Joan Saverino, Historical Society of Pennsylvania On December 6, 1907, the worst mine disaster in American history occurred in Monongah, West Virginia. About fifty percent of…
Anne Marie Macari’s breath-taking second collection finds unapologetic revelation in the female body. Gloryland (Alice James Books, 2005) re-examines motherhood, death, birth, and rebirth, drawing…