Other Publications

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   Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction


Letters from Suburbia (stories), forthcoming from Smalls Books, 2010.

Poems, forthcoming in Italian Passages. New York: Bordighera, 2009.

Poems, forthcoming in Avanti Popolo: Sailing Beyond Columbus. San Francisco: Manic D Pressm,  2009.

The Pope Play (play), in development at Theaterworks, Brooklyn, New York, 2008-2009.

“The New Pope” (story), forthcoming in American Fictions (Summer 2008).

“Not the Wind” and “Topsoil in the Old Continental” (poems), forthcoming in Long Island Sounds 2008: An Anthology of Poetry. North Sea, New York: North Sea Poetry Scene Press, 2008.

“Big Bob Diaz Sold His House,” “Explode the Coyotes,” “I’m Still Banging Your Sister,” and “Misbehavior” (poems), forthcoming in Writing Outside the Lines: An Anthology of Poetry from the Wrong Side of the Tracks. North Sea, New York: Wild Island Press, 2008.

"Rome" (story), J Journal 1.1 (Spring 2008): 94-114.

"Shinto Mama" (poem), forthcoming in Wild Dreams: The Best of Italian Americana, Carol Bonomo Albright and Joanna Clapps Herman, eds. New York: Fordham University Press, 2008.

"Goliard, Goosander" (poem), forthcoming in Phoenix  2 (2008).

Poems, forthcoming in Perspectives 30 (2007-2008).

“How Does That Make You Feel?” (story) and “So I Don’t Look Italian” (poem), The Harvard Journal of Italian American History and Culture (Fall 2007): 1-7.

“Dong Dai Moon” (poem), Asbestos 1 (Fall 2007): 16.

"A Limerick and a Sonnet," "A Poem for My Half-Blind Dog," "Death Struggle with the Subway Tavern," "I Don't Want to Live in Manhattan," "Knock Hockey," "What's Fun and What Isn't" (poems), Perspectives 29 (2006-2007): 196-207.

"Brooklyn is Your Classroom" (poem), Transformations 28.1 (2007): 74.

"Washboard" (poem), Hurricane Blues: Poems about Katrina and Rita. Cape Girardeau, MO: Southeast Missouri UP, 2006: 124-125.

"An Italian in Nature," "Nazis, Dwarves, and Crones," "Your Cousin Dominick" (poems), The Paterson Literary Review 35 (2006): 178-181.

"The Techniques of Fiction" (poem), Inkwell 19 (Spring 2006): 62-63.

"A Poem for My Uncle Pete," "FffffhhH...mmmm," "The Women of Academe" (poems), Perspectives 28 (2005-2006): 272-277, 281.

"The Outcome" (poem), Barrow Street (Winter 2005): 52-53.
 
"Poverty and Poetry" (poem), The Clarion, November 2005: 11.

"Long Beach" (poem), Poets in Their Thirties (Web anthology), http://home.earthlink.net/~glafemina/poetsintheirthirties/, November 2005.

"Manhattan-Bound F" (poem), The Place Where We Dwell: Reading and Writing about New York City. Dubuque: Kendall/Hunt, 2005: 301-302.

"The Government," "If My Son Is a Moron," "My Mother's Ink" (poems), Inkwell 17 (Spring 2005): 106-108.

"Travel" and "Variations on a Theme by Kenneth Koch" (poems), Perspectives 27 (2004-2005): 182-185.

Featured Poet Section including biographical essay and "Shinto Mama" (poem), Italian Americana 22.1 (Summer 2004): 156-158.

"All I Can Do is Sing for You," "Imperfect Tense," "Is Sex Good for the Soul?", "Less Than," "Life," "On Not Marching Against War," "Shakespeare in the Park," "The Souls of Toads," "They Came for Me," "You Can Dance with Me" (poems), Perspectives 26 (2003-2004): 29-46.

"Orientation," excerpt from The City University (memoir), Perspectives 26 (2003-2004): 161-167.

"A Mind" (poem), New York City College of Technology PSC-CUNY Chapter News (Fall 2003): 4.

"On not marching against war in the Middle East" (poem), Poets Against War (Web anthology), www.poetsagainstwar.org, Spring 2003.
    
Performance on the Page Section, including "Napolitan" (poem), Voices in Italian Americana 14.1 (Spring 2003): 91-93.

"Mid-Life Crisis," "Trout in Twilight," "Rage Riots," "The Searcher," "Hindi Radio God," "Three Ten Dollar Shirt," "What You Say to a Crying Student," "To an Ex-Leukemia Patient," "Jimi Hendrix Influences Italian American Parents from Brooklyn" (poems), Perspectives 25 (2002-2003): 213-224, 247-256.
    
"Life in the New World," "Massachusetts," "Immigrant Histories," "Reverse Immigration,"  "Beak in the Filter," "The Questions New York Asked," "Blind Alleys" (poems), Perspectives 24 (2001-2002): 32-50.
    
"Killing the Pope" (fiction), Voices in Italian Americana 12.1 (2001): 53-59.

"The Conference Committee," "Gladiator's Labyrinth," "The Jewish Andie McDowell," "George Plimpton," "I Sometimes Forget Who I Am," "We are Driving Through Stamford, Connecticut" (poems), Perspectives 23 (2000/2001): 72-84.

"I Fall in Love," "To the Other Man," "A Snowy Day Indoors," "New York Again," "Love" (poems), Perspectives 22 (1999/2000): 41-53.

"I Hear the Train A-Comin'" (personal essay) Perspectives 22 (1999/2000): 54-58.

"Boy" (fiction), Voices in Italian Americana 10.2 (1999): 54-59.

"Italianita" and "People You Don't See Because They Die" (poems), Perspectives 21 (1998/1999): 146-148.    

"Testing, Testing..." (fiction), "I call myself a cuckoo" (poem), and "Manhattan Dies" (poem), Red Shift 4.1 (Spring 1998): 14-16, 37.

"Screensavers" and "The Whole Nine Yards" (excerpts from the novel, Letters from Suburbia) and "If We Had Married" (poem), The Paterson Literary Review 26 (1997): 80, 120-24.

"With three women, none a wife" (poem), Vivace 2 (Spring 1997): 1.
    
"Asking Directions" (poem), Vivace 1 (Winter 1997): 3.

"Hindi Radio God" and "Third" (poems), Light Trauma 1 (Fall 1996): 18, 21.

"Fear of Crossing Over," "In Italian American T.V. Commercials...," "L'Intagliatore," and "Poets are good at forgetting" (poems), Voices in Italian Americana 7.1 (1996): 139-144.

"Unisex: The Primeval Barbershop" (poem), Dream International Quarterly 25 (Winter 1995-96): 100.

"I Too am 25" (poem), Poetry New York 6 (Winter 1993/Spring 1994): 22.

"Inside South Africa, 1973" (poem), Whispers in the Wind 11 (1990): 37.

"Penumbra" (poem), Upstart (1989): 21.

"Nelsons Secede, White House Stunned" (fiction), Quarto 24 (Spring 1988): 19-21.


    Critical Essays, Reviews, Translations and Other Non-Fiction


"Prospero's Mucc's: The Meaning of Martin Scorsese's Italian American Dialect," forthcoming in Italian Americana (2009).

"Mario Soldati's 'Italian Americans,'"(translation and critical introduction), forthcoming in Voices in Italian Americana (2009).

"Anthony Valerio's The Little Sailor: Quintessence of an Oeuvre" (review essay), forthcoming in Voices in Italian Americana (2008).

"Learn Italian American in Nine Weeks!: Teaching Italian American Studies On Line," forthcoming in Teaching Italian American Literature, Film, and Popular Culture.  Edvige Giunta and Kathleen Zamboni McCormick, eds. Options for Teaching. New York: Modern Language Association, 2008.

"Ink in the Streets: Dana Gioia, the New Poetry Wars, and Italian American Poetry" (review essay), Italian Americana 25.2 (2007): 222-227.

"Zooma, Zooma!: Louis Prima's Spectacle of Ethnicity," forthcoming in The Impact of World War II on Italian Americans. New York: Bordighera Press, 2006.

"Lies to Live By" (book review), The Paterson Literary Review 35 (2006): 294-297.

"Lies to Live By" and "The Little Sailor" (capsule reviews), The American Italian Historical Association Newsletter 39.1 (Spring 2006): 13-14.

"Italian American History: An Overview," Perspectives 28 (2005-2006): 63-72

The Pope Stories (fiction chapbook). New York: The Sutton Press, 2005.

"The Future Without a Past: The Humanities in a Technological Society" (book review), The American Italian Historical Association Newsletter 38.3 (Fall 2005): 27-30.

"Rita Ciresi," "John Fante," "Fred L. Gardaphe," "Maria Mazziotti Gillan," "Daniela Gioseffi," "Frank O'Hara," "Gay Talese," "Anthony Valerio," "Robert Viscusi" (profiles), The Encyclopedia of Ethnic American Literature. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005: 460-461, 695-696, 795-796, 824-825, 831-832, 1660-1661, 2129-2131, 2203-2205, 2225-2226.

"Determining A Successful Program at New York City College of Technology to Foster Students' Creative Writing" (co-author), Perspectives 27 (2004-2005): 15-27.

"Horatio Alger's Fauns and Beasts, O Henry’s Dagoes: Italian American Male Identity in Guilded Age Literature," Perspectives 27 (2004-2005): 51-58.

"The Progress of WAC and WID at City Tech: An Update," The Connection 6 (Fall 2005): 1-6.

"Las Vegas Jubilee: Louis Prima's 1950s Stage Show as Multicultural Pageant," The Journal of Popular Culture 38.4 (May 2005): 678-697.

"Not Your Average Acronyms: W. A.C., C. U. E., and the C. T. E.," The Connection 5 (Fall 2004): 1.

"Italian Americans." We Came to North America. Vol 6. Ed. Dennis Cove. 10 vols. London: Brown Reference Group, 2004. 

"W. A. C. at the M. L. A.: 'The Limits of Interdisciplinarity'," The Connection 4 (Spring 2004): 8.

"Giovanni Verga and the Roots of Italian America," Italian Americana 21.2 (Summer 2003):    150-163.

"The Plantations of Charles Chesnutt and Mark Twain," Perspectives 25 (2002-2003): 136-144.
 
"Perspectives' 25th Anniversary Roundtable Discussion: Understanding and Writing Poetry" (co-author), Perspectives 25 (2002-2003): 225-246.

"Anthony Giardina's Recent History: A Novel" (book review), Italian Americana 21.1 (Winter 2003): 105.

"W. A. C. and Roll: City Tech's Program Moves Ahead," The Connection 2 (Fall 2002): 1-3.

"'Cunnilingus and Psychotherapy Brought Us to This': Mafia Comedy and Italian American Culture," The Columbia Journal of American Studies 5.1 (2002): 82-96.

"'Sweet William he rose in the Month of May': Wordsworth’s Ballads and the Pursuit of the Perfect Self." Perspectives 24 (2001-2002): 24-28.

"Anita Garibaldi: A Biography" (book review), South Eastern Latin Americanist 45. 3-4 (Winter/Spring 2002). [on-line journal]
   
"Novel Paesans: The Reconstruction of Italian American Male Identity in Robert Viscusi's Astoria and Anthony Valerio's Conversation with Johnny," MELUS 26.2 (Summer 2001):  95-107.

"Anita Garibaldi, A Biography" (book review), Italian American Review 8.1 (Spring/Summer 2001):  208-212.

"Analyze This Goombah: The New Mafia Comedy as Italian American Cultural Expression," Italian American Culture: A Century of Progress? West Lafayette: Bordighera, Inc., 2001: 225-244.

"Dennis Barone's Separate Objects and Echoes" (book review), Italian Americana 19.1 (Summer 2001): 243-244.

"A Little Song, A Little Dance, A Little Ziti Down Your Pants: Tony and Tina’s Wedding and Italian American Stage Comedy," Perspectives 23 (2000/2001): 11-19.

"PDAC Sponsors Teaching Portfolio Workshops," The New York City Technical College Bulletin (May 2001): 1.

"A Year of Progress and Transition," The Connection 1.2 (Spring 2001): 1-2.

"Italian American Literature" (commentary), PMLA 115.7 (December 2000): 2006.

"The Return of the Expressed: Writing Across the City Tech Curriculum," The Connection 1.1 (Fall 2000): 1-4.

"In Imagination of the Past: John Fante's Ask the Dust as Italian American Modernism," John Fante: A Critical Gathering. Eds. Stephen Cooper and David
Fine. Rutherford, N.J.: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1999: 131-144.

"Gay Talese" and "Daniela Gioseffi," The Italian American Experience. Ed. Salvatore J. LaGumina. New York and London: Garland Publishing, 1999: 267-68, 623-624.

"'One Vital Gregarious Amusement': The Function of Humor in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara," Perspectives 21 (1998/1999): 27-36. 

"Impresa/Ripresa: Early Italian American Autobiography and the Continuum of Italian American Narrative," Mattoid  52/53 (1998): 220-227.

"Anthony Valerio: The Metaphysics of Frank Sinatra" (profile) and "The Don and the Lover" (book review), At Your Leisure (September 1998): 23-24. 

"Mary Bush's Drowning" (book review), Voices in Italian Americana 6.2 (1995): 201-203.