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"An emotionally riveting collection that tells a powerful story of passion, loss, and transformation." @ Good Reads

"...Watching the antagonist crumble and crack was as sweet as a bucketful of Rocky Road," wrote reviewer Kajsa Wiberg in Eclectica Magazine

This weekend's features: Marisa Frasca and Judith Vollmer drew a full house audience from widely divergent worlds.

Vollmer is founding editor of poetry journal 5 AM and author of five poetry books, including the most recent collection, The Water Books, from Autumn House Press.

Of Begin in Gladness, Lewis Turco writes: "It is always a great joy to discover a poet who is able to say what he means not only clearly but musically, singing into one's ear the intelligence of the world...These poems ride into the heart of language, and they come out trailing melody."

The San Gennaro Festival began 86 years ago.

Claudia Cotrutza French designed the cover for Maxime's first collection, "Rooted" to be published by New York Quarterly Books.

Brooklyn-based author, "Krissy" Gasbarre of How to Love an American Man: A True Story (HarperCollins, 2011) features this weekend.

Best known as a pop culture chronicler, Allegretti's latest book Europa/Nippon/New York: Poems/Not-Poems was published by Poets Wear Prada this year.

Contino's book, Born to Create chronicles her transition from being a seventh-grade English teacher to a new-found career in the arts.