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Poetry

A wall, a poem, a summer epiphany.

Joey Skee

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.

Brigand or Emigrant, but Ultimately Film Protagonist

Joey Skee

Representations of brigands have shaped and continue to reshape perceptions of Italy and its people throughout the world.

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.

Ottava Rima in Bensonhurst

Joey Ski

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

Bordighera Prize. Happiness in Poetry

Michelina Zambella

The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute welcomed the winner of this year’s Bordighera Poetry Prize, Tony Magistrale for “What She Says About Love”; the first...

A rebel, between past and future

Letizia Airos Soria

You could listen to him for hours, days on end; his words are of an intense existence. Aldo Tambellini relates pieces of his life and lets himself take off on a roll, only slowed...

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