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Bordighera Press
Bordighera Press is an independent publisher that was founded in 1989 by Fred Gardaphé, Paolo Giordano, and Anthony Julian Tamburri. Committed to Italian and Italian American Italian Americans () are Americans who have full or partial Italians, Italian ancestry. The largest concentrations of Italian Americans are in the urban Northeastern United States, Northeast and industrial Midwestern United States, Midwestern ... culture in North America, the press consists of four series (Bordighera Poetry Prize, Crossings, Saggistica, and Via Folios) and two journals (''VIA'' and ''Italiana''). Based in Indiana, the publisher also has editorial offices located in New York City. History Born out of an anthology, "From the Margins, Writings in Italian Americana," and the desire to go beyond stereotypical portrayals, the founders of Bordighera Press wanted to see the full array of the Italian American experience reflected both in popular and scholarly works. Since its inception, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Julian Tamburri
Anthony Julian Tamburri is the seventh executive director and longest serving with the title of Dean of the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of Queens College, CUNY and Distinguished Professor of European Languages and Literatures. He has written over one hundred thirty journal articles and book chapters, and twenty-one books. Biography Born and raised in Stamford, Connecticut Tamburri earned degrees from Southern Connecticut State University (BS, Italian & Spanish), Middlebury College (MA, Italian), and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD, Italian & Spanish). He taught both Italian and Spanish at the high-school level, and Italian language and literature at Smith, Middlebury, and Auburn, and Italian and Italian/American studies at Purdue University, before moving to Florida Atlantic University Florida Atlantic University (Florida Atlantic or FAU) is a Public university, public research university with its main campus in Boca Raton, Florida, United State ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emanuel Di Pasquale
Emanuel di Pasquale is an American poet and translator. Life His work has appeared in ''The Journal of Orgonomy'' ''American Poetry Review'', ''Sewanee Review'', ''New York Quarterly'', and the ''New York Times''. He lives in East Brunswick, New Jersey East Brunswick is a Township (New Jersey), township in Middlesex County, New Jersey, Middlesex County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The suburban bedroom community is part of the New York metropolitan area and is located on the southern sho .... Awards * 2000 Raiziss/de Palchi Translation Awards * 1998 Bordighera Poetry Prize, ''Song of the Tulip Tree'', by Joe Salerno Works Poetry * * * * Translations * * Anthologies * References {{DEFAULTSORT:Di Pasquale, Emanuel Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male poets Italian–English translators 20th-century American poets 20th-century American translators 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American poets 21st-cent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vetere
Richard Vetere (born January 15, 1952, in New York City) is an American playwright, screenwriter, television writer, poet and actor. Career Born in 1952, Vetere grew up in Maspeth, Queens, a setting that appears in a number of his plays. He graduated from Columbia University with a master's degree in Comparative Literature and has written and published various books on poetry of which include ''Memories of Human Hands'' and ''A Dream of Angels''. Vetere's plays have been produced Off Broadway, regionally and internationally, such as ''The Engagement'', ''Coupla Bimbos Sittin' Around Talkin'', ''Gangster Apparel'', ''Caravaggio'', ''Machiavelli'', and ''One Shot, One Kill'' and all have been published by Dramatic Publishing. In 1983 his play ''Rockaway Boulevard'' was reviewed by Michiko Kakutani in ''The New York Times'' and she wrote,"Vetere demonstrates the ability to mix the poetic with the colloquial." In 1983, Vetere's screenplay ''Vigilante'' was made into a feature ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandro Veronesi (writer)
Sandro Veronesi (born 1959) is an Italian novelist, essayist, and journalist. After earning a degree in architecture at the University of Florence, he opted for a writing career in his mid to late twenties. Veronesi published his first book at the age of 25, a collection of poetry (''Il resto del cielo'', 1984) that has remained his only venture into verse writing. He has since published five novels, three books of essays, one theatrical piece, numerous introductions to novels and collections of essays, interviews, screenplays, and television programs. Veronesi has twice been awarded Italy's most prestigious literary prize, the Premio Strega: in 2006 for his novel and in 2020 for his novel ''The Hummingbird'' (''Il colibrì''). Works ''Il resto del cielo'' consists of twenty-five short compositions, none longer than fourteen verses, that speak to the general problematics of communication, all of which are underscored by a constant Unity of opposites#Coincidentia oppositorum, coi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Tusiani
Joseph Tusiani (January 14, 1924 – April 11, 2020) was an Italian-American poet, translator, and novelist. He served as a professor emeritus of languages and literature at Lehman College and was named New York State Poet Laureate Emeritus in 2016 by Governor Andrew Cuomo. Tusiani published works in four languages: Italian, Latin, English, and Gargano, the dialect of his birthplace in the Apulia region of Italy. Early life and education Born in the Apulia region of Italy, Tusiani earned his Ph.D. in Letters from the University of Naples in 1947. He emigrated to the United States the following year, settling in the Arthur Avenue neighborhood of the Bronx. He began his teaching career at the College of Mount Saint Vincent The University of Mount Saint Vincent (UMSV) is a Private university , private Catholic university in New York City, United States. It was founded in 1847 by the Sisters of Charity of New York. The university serves over 1,800 students with p ... before ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Turco
Lewis Putnam Turco (May 2, 1934 – September 25, 2024) was an American poet, teacher, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. Turco was an advocate for Formalist poetry (or New Formalism) in the United States. Life and work Turco took a keen interest in poetry as a teenager and after high school, while serving in the U.S. Navy aboard , he had work published in various little magazines and quarterlies. He graduated from the University of Connecticut in 1959, published his '' First Poems'' in 1960, and completed an MA at the University of Iowa in 1962 (at the Iowa Writers' Workshop). It was there that he cultivated an interest in formal verse and began, to use his words, "collecting forms." Turco collected these forms in the '' Book of Forms'', published in the 1960s, a time when it would seem odd to do so since most poets were writing free verse. Turco taught at Fenn College in Cleveland (now Cleveland State University) where he founded the Cleveland Poetry Center and at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maria Terrone
Maria Terrone (May 21, Manhattan) is an American poet and writer. She is the author of three collections of poetry: ''Eye to Eye'' (2014), ''A Secret Room in Fall'' (2006) and ''The Bodies We Were Loaned'' (2002). She has been nominated four times for a Pushcart Prize and has received the Individual Artist Initiative Award from the Queens Council on the Arts. Her poetry ranges widely in subject, including themes of history, family and contemporary urban environments. Life and career Terrone grew up in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York, and graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. In the early years of her career, she worked as a journalist, magazine editor and in corporate communications. In 1990, she joined the City University of New York:Queens College Office of Communications [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Parenti
Michael John Parenti (born September 30, 1933) is an American political scientist, academic historian and cultural critic who writes on scholarly and popular subjects. He has taught at universities as well as run for political office. Parenti is well known for his Marxist writings and lectures, and is an intellectual of the American Left. In the 2000s, he became embroiled in controversy when he claimed that Serbia's War crimes in the Kosovo War, war crimes in the former Yugoslavia had been exaggerated in the Western world, Western press in order to justify NATO military intervention followed by privatization of the Serbian economy. Parenti was denounced by Bosniak organizations and historians for his Bosnian genocide denial, denial of the Bosnian Genocide. Education and personal life Michael Parenti was raised by an Italian-American working-class family in the East Harlem neighborhood of New York City. After graduating from high school, Parenti worked for several years. Upon retu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Mileti
Nick James Mileti (April 22, 1931 – August 21, 2024) was an American author, lawyer, businessman, sports entrepreneur and sports franchise owner who was, during the 1970s, the owner of the Cleveland Indians, Cleveland Cavaliers, Cleveland Crusaders, the Cleveland Arena, the Coliseum at Richfield, and radio station "3WE" WWWE AM/1100 (now WTAM). Sports franchise ownership career Born in southeast Cleveland, Mileti put himself through college, graduating from Bowling Green State University (BGSU) in 1953. The BGSU Alumni Center is now named in his honor. He was a member of the Theta Chi fraternity at BGSU. Following his time at BGSU, he earned a J.D. degree from the Ohio State University Moritz College of Law in 1956. After military service he opened a law practice in Lakewood, Ohio and became prosecutor there after befriending the mayor. He became involved in sports after serving as chairman of the Bowling Green alumni association and organizing a BGSU game at the Clevelan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Lanzillotto
Annie Lanzillotto (born June 1, 1963) is an American author, poet, songwriter, director, actor, podcaster, and performance artist. Her book, '' L Is for Lion: An Italian Bronx Butch Freedom Memoir,'' was published by State University of New York Press. 2013. Her book of poetry, ''Schistsong'' was published by Bordighera Press. 2013. Her double flip book of poetry and prose, ''Hard Candy: Caregiving, Mourning, and Stage Light'' and ''Pitch Roll Yaw'' was published by Guernica Editions 2018. Her podcast ''Annie's Story Cave'' commenced while sheltering in place alone in 2020. She is the Artistic Director of ''Street Cry Inc''. Lanzillotto is a member of Actors' Equity, Dramatists Guild of America, PEN America, Remember the Triangle Fire Coalition, ''Malìa'': a Collective of Italian American Women, The Italian American Writers Association (IAWA), a blogger for i-Italy.com,Stephanie LaFarge, of Project Nim. and Dr. James Crowley of Rhode Island Hospital. She studied at The Amer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Camaiti Hostert
Anna Camaiti Hostert (born July 19, 1949, in Florence, Italy) is an Italian American philosopher and a scholar of Visual Studies. She lives and works between Italy and the United States. Biography She obtained her degree in Philosophy at the University of Pisa (Italy) defending a dissertation with the philosopher Nicola Badaloni. Then she received a PhD in Literature and Film from the University of Chicago. She has taught at Loyola University of Chicago, at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and the University of Rome La Sapienza (Italy). She was ''Visiting Professor'' at the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles and the Florence campus of the New York University (NYU) Tisch School of Cinema. She was also ''Distinguished Visiting Professor'' at Florida Atlantic University (FAU) in Boca Raton. She was Acting Associate Dean at the Loyola University’s campus in Rome. In 1999 she founded along the philosopher Mario Perniola the magazine '' Agalma: Magazine of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniela Gioseffi
Daniela Gioseffi (born 1941) is an American poet, novelist and performer who won the American Book Award in 1990 for ''Women on War; International Writings from Antiquity to the Present'' (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1988). She has published 16 books of poetry and prose and won a PEN American Center's Short Fiction prize (1995), and The John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry (2007). Early life Gioseffi was born in 1941 in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of an Italian-Albanian immigrant father, Daniel Donato Gioseffi, one of the first Italian immigrants to win a Phi Beta Kappa in the United States from the alpha chapter of Union College in Schenectady. Her mother was a war orphan of Polish and Russian Jewish descent who worked as a seamstress and dress designer. Because of her mother's orphan status, and her father's large Italian family, Gioseffi grew up with a strong imprint of Italian American culture. She grew up in Newark and attended Avon Avenue Public Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |