The Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize
The winner of the 2018 Prize is Matthew Cariello for his manuscript "Talk," to be published April 2019.

"What a pleasure it is to read these unadorned yet   carefully observed poems by Matthew Cariello.  TALK  wages a lyrical   conversation with the self, the everyday, and the natural world where hard-won   realizations are in perfect balance with a nature that becomes primal because   it is so effortlessly welcomed. There are no easy epiphanies, or grandiose posturing   here, instead we gain insight from an integrated narrative impulse that subtly engages   and delights. The birch tree, the fig trees, pigeons, and swallows, a walk to a   delicatessen, trips to an old bookstore, and even an otherworldly shovel emerge   as emblems without sacrificing their utility and order in the poet's refined imaginary."

-Distinguished judge Peter Covino
Submissions for the 2019 Prize are now open!

The Lauria/Frasca Poetry Prize was conceived to promote the literature of the Italian diaspora and is open to poets of Italian descent writing poetry in English. The winning poet will be awarded $1000 and Bordighera Press will publish the manuscript, along with a standard royalty contract. Two runner-up manuscripts will receive standard royalty contracts.

For more information and guidelines, visit Submittable!
Novità
by Rita Esposito Watson
ISBN 978-1-59954-132-7
VIA Folios 136
$12.00

Publication Date: February 2019

European grandmothers share important traits, a love of cooking and a love of family. I'm Armenian and yet, I see my own grandmothers as I read through stories which capture our heritage.

-S tephen Kurkjian, three-time  Pulitzer Prize winner for The Boston Globe
by Michelle Reale
ISBN 978-1-59954-136-5
VIA Folios 138

Publication Date: March 2019

SEASON OF SUBTRACTION is like Sicily's own citrus fruits-hybridized, yet native and emblematic; sweet and intricate, yet often bitter in places at the whim of life's turning.  With its nuanced language, crafted metaphors, and raw honesty, Reale's work is a treat to be savored.  

-Chad Frame, Montgomery County Poet Laureate, 2017
by Marisa Frasca
ISBN 978-1-59954-140-2
VIA Folios 137

Publication Date: April 2019

Frasca is a poet of wonder, and this work is alive, visionary, painterly. Here, myth isn't an old story, it is the art of transformation, and Frasca embodies an ever-present unfolding.

-Anne Marie Macari
Cesare Pavese's Long Journey
by Giose Rimanelli
ISBN 978-1-59954-133-4
Saggistica 27

Publication Date: Spring/Summer 2019

"[T]his book-length study of Pavese brings to light an important chapter of Rimanelli's own life journey. It highlights a strong sense of tradition, a loyalty to place and to one's roots, and the idea of America as a metaphor for one's literary substance, one's myth, and one's destiny."

-Mark Pietralunga, from the "Introduction"

For review/desk copies and more information, email us at info@bordigherapress.org
Readings



Sunday, March 3
Featuring Maria Giura
Hilton Garden Inn
Staten Island, NY


Thursday, March 7
Featuring Maria Giura and Mark Hillringhouse  
Montclair Public Library auditorium
50 South Fullerton Ave. 
Montclair, NJ


Thursday, March 14
Featuring Anthony Tamburri
24 West 12th Street
New York, NY 10011-8604


Tuesday, March 26
Italian-American Experience Lecture Series
Featuring Anthony Tamburri
Guthart Cultural Center Theater, Axinn Library
HempsteadNY 11549


Thursday, March 28
Featuring Kathy Curto, Sara Fruner, & Angelo Spina
25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor 
New York, NY 10036


Friday, April 5
VIA/Italian Americana Poetry Celebration 
Featuring poets from both journals
25 West 43rd Street, 17th Floor 
New York, NY 10036


Wednesday, April 10 
Featuring Kathy Curto and Maria Giura
Montclair State University - Kasser Lobby 
1 Normal Avenue 
Montclair, NJ 07043


Saturday, June 8
Featuring Maria Giura and Maria Terrone
Sidewalk Cafe
94 Avenue A & 6th Street 
New York, NY  10009


Tuesday, June 18
Featuring Maria Giura
75 N. Martine Avenue
Fanwood, New Jersey 07023


Tuesday, June 25
Featuring Kathy Curto and Maria Giura
556 Vanderbilt Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11238
 
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