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IA Literati 2021, Casa Italia’s 17th annual celebration of local Italian-American authors, will run from 9 a.m.-noon on July 10 in their Community Center in Chicago.
The event will begin with a meet-and-greet with the authors, followed by presentations. Additional activities include book sales, book signings, and raffles, and the event will end with a light lunch.
The keynote speaker will be poet, artist, and professor, Maria Mazziotti Gillan. Mazziotti Gillan is a Bartle professor and professor emerita of English and creative writing at Binghamton University-SUNY as well as editor of the Paterson Literary Review.
“As Italian Americans, we need to save our stories, or we will lose our heritage. Our IA Literati writers are in the forefront of that effort and deserve our full support,” says Dominic Candeloro, Italian Cultural Center curator and event founder.
Several new authors, including LaRue Agresti, Albert Melone, and Ronald Rufo, will take part in the event along with veteran literati Edward Izzi, Mary Matury-Gibson, Steve Decker, and Arthur Cola.
There is no fee for this event, but free-will donations are encouraged and reservations are required.
For more information, visit casaitaliachicago.org, or email casaitalialibrary-aaweiss@yahoo.com.
Source: franoi.com/tag/maria-mazziotti-gillan/
Maria Mazziotti Gillan's new poetry collection is When the Stars Were Still Visible (2021). Other recent publications are the poetry and photography collection, Paterson Light and Shadow, and the poetry collections What Blooms in Winter and The Girls in the Chartreuse Jackets which pairs her poems with her paintings. Maria's artist's website is MariaMazziottiGillan.com and her poetry website is MariaGillan.com.
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