Poets & Writers Piazza 2009
Award Winning Poet, Louisa Calio, directs the 8th Poets and Writers Piazza for Hofstra's 17th Italian Experience,
Sponsored by: The Association of Italian American Educators (AIAE)
At: THE EMILY & JERRY SPIEGEL THEATER
Date: Sunday, September 20, 2009 @ 12 pm at Hofstra's South Campus.
Event Details:
WHERE: THE EMILY & JERRY SPIEGEL THEATER at Hofstra U
LOCATION: South Campus, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York
WHEN: Sunday September 20, 2009
TIME:12:00 Noon -4:30pm
WHO:
- Louisa Calio
- Tammy Nuzzo- Morgan ( poet Laureate suffolk county)
- novelist Giulia Melucci
- poets and writers: Marisa Frasca, Annie Lanzillotto, Marisa Labozzetta, Leonard Greco, Stanislao Pugliese,Rosetta D’Angelo, Rob Marchesani
- Featured Poets: Michael Palma and George Guida, with Luigi Bonafini reading Joseph Tusiani and poetry in translation.
FREE ADMISSION
Open Readings in between...BOOK SIGNINGS throughout the day.
WHAT:a celebration in contemporary Italian culture and the literary word.
Join in a day of Italian music, cuisine, dance, folklore, art, theatre, and culture.
Artist Bio
Louisa Calio, is an internationally published author and award winning writer: Winner of the 1978 Connecticut Commission of the Arts Award to individual writers, Barbara Jones and Taliesin Prizes for Poetry (Trinidad & Tobago) Educational Center for the Arts grant for In the Eye of Balance a multimedia production of her book, Women in Leadership Award 1987, most recently honored with Alice Walker, Gloria Steinem and other Feminists Who Changed America (1963-76) at Columbia/Barnard.
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