John Giorno, Vic Ruggiero, Penny Arcade, and John La Barbera to perform in support of the Calandra Institute.
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John Giorno, Vic Ruggiero, Penny Arcade, and John La Barbera to perform in support of the Calandra Institute.
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Poet, visual artist, raconteur, singer, immigrant laborer, friend.
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The following lines come from an email sent to i-italy.org editors who, in turn, shared it with me. The words are quoted verbatim and in the order in which they were written, but recontextualized here as verse.
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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.
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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.
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In a social club in Brooklyn, the lost poetry of a Sicilian contadino is heard again.
