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Literature

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April 1, 2008

Tags I Like

Joey Skee

In joyous celebration of April’s National Poetry Month and Fool’s Day, I offer these four “found poems” made entirely from tags I found on i-italy.org.

January 12, 2008

Poet Vincent Ferrini, 1913-2007

Joey Ski
Vincent Ferrini reciting "Forge Plant."

Poet Vincent Ferrini, 1913-2007

December 27, 2007

Ottava Rima in Bensonhurst

Joey Ski
Joseph Sciorra
Antonino Provenzano reciting poetry at the Castel del Golfo Social Club, Brooklyn (December 1, 2007).

In a social club in Brooklyn, the lost poetry of a Sicilian contadino is heard again.

December 7, 2007

Sal Paradise was an Italophobe.

Joey Ski
http://www.writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88v/kerouac-spontaneous.html
Jack Kerouac

A little piece of drivel by Jack Kerouac begs the question, What's Italian-American about On The Road?

August 11, 2008

A wall, a poem, a summer epiphany.

Joey Skee
Joseph Sciorra
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, 2008.

I am reminded of Eugenio Montale's haunting poem upon discovering a simple barrier wall built by an Italian immigrant in Brooklyn during the 1930s.