The Calandra Institute invites some of the most prominent, cutting-edge, Italian American creative writers to debut and read from works of recent fiction, poetry, and memoir.
UPCOMING EVENTS
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PAST EVENTS
February 2020
Feb 20 2020
Joanne Mattera Reads from Vita: A Memoir: Growing up Italian, Coming Out, and Making a Life in Art
November 2019
Nov 06 2019
Juliet Grames Reads from The Seven or Eight Deaths of Stella Fortuna (Ecco, 2019)
September 2019
Sep 24 2019
Three Bordighera Press Writers— Kathy Curto, Maria Terrone, and Rita Esposito Watson—Read from Their Works
April 2019
Apr 02 2019
B.G. Firmani reads from Time’s a Thief (Doubleday, 2017)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
March 2019
Mar 07 2019
Christopher Castellani reads from Leading Men (Viking, 2019)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
October 2018
Oct 16 2018
Readings from Gil Fagiani’s Missing Madonnas, (Bordighera Press, 2018)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
September 2018
Sep 11 2018
Christian Picciolini reads from White American Youth: My Descent into America’s Most Violent Hate Movement—and How I Got Out (Hachette Books, 2017)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
February 2018
Feb 22 2018
Olivia Kate Cerrone reads from The Hunger Saint (Bordighera Press, 2017) Camilla Trinchieri reads from Seeking Alice: A Novel (SUNY Press, 2016)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
October 2017
Oct 18 2017
Marianne Leone reads from Ma Speaks Up: And a First Generation Daughter Talks Back
Helene Stapinski reads from Murder in Matera: A True Story of Passion, Family, and Forgiveness in Southern Italy
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
March 2017
Mar 22 2017
The Young and the Reckless: Emerging Italian American Writers Chloe DeFilippis, Marc Pollifrone, and Angelica Roman
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
December 2016
Dec 12 2016
Dana Spiotta reads from Innocents and Others (Scribner, 2016)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
September 2016
Sep 29 2016
Readings from Rabbit Ears: TV Poems
Edited by Joel Allegretti (NYQ Books, 2015)
John D. Calandra Italian American Institute, Queens College, CUNY
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