Speakers:
Poet, translator, and editor Peter Covino is associate professor of English at the U of Rhode Island, and author of the poetry collections, The Right Place to Jump (2012); and Cut Off the Ears of Winter (2005) both from W. Michigan University Press. His prizes include a 2019 NEA Translation Fellowship and the PEN American / Osterweil Award. He is one of the founding editors of Barrow Street Press Inc., and Poetry Editor of VIA.
Luisa Del Giudice, Ph.D. is an independent scholar, has taught at UCLA and Addis Ababa University, and was Founder-Director of the public nonprofit, Italian Oral History Institute. She has published and lectured widely on Italian and diaspora ethnology and oral history, and has produced many public programs in Los Angeles. In 2008 she was named an honorary fellow of the American Folklore Society and knighted (Cavaliere) by the Italian Republic. She has published: Sabato Rodia’s Towers in Watts: Art, Migrations, Development, Fordham UP, 2014, and On Second Thought: Learned Women Reflect on Profession, Community, Purpose; University of Utah Press, 2017.
Nicholas Grosso is the Coordinating Editor of Bordighera Press and an Editorial Administrator at the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute. In 2016, he founded literaturhaus, an experimental micro-publisher, to create a space for more thoughtful reflections on art, ecosystems, communities and urban spaces, industries and institutions, the universe, and ourselves.
Fredric Nachbaur is currently Director of Fordham University Press, publisher of scholarly books in the humanities and social sciences, as well as the regional imprint, Empire State Editions. In 2010 he launched the Critical Studies in Italian-America series. Fred has close to 30 years of book publishing experience, the last twenty working with scholarly books. He has a Bachelor of Arts in English from William Paterson University and a Masters of Art in Urban Studies from Fordham University.
Moderator:
Julia Lisella is the author of the poetry collections Always and Terrain (both from WordTech Editions) and the poetry chapbook Love Song Hiroshima (Finishing Line Press, 2004). Her poems are widely anthologized and have appeared in VIA, Ovunque Siamo, Alaska Quarterly Review, Antiphon, Ocean State Review, Literary Mama, Salamander, Prairie Schooner, Valparaiso and others. She is a professor of English at Regis College in Massachusetts and runs the Italian American Writers Association literary reading series in Boston at I AM Books (IAWA in Boston).
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IDEA Boston is an Italian-inspired festival celebrating authors, books and culture, and organized by independent bookstore I AM Books, situated in Boston's North End neighborhood.
