Scroll Down 2010 Events:

Feb. 26th, Fri. 7PM Daniela at POETS HOUSE, Manhattan, reads from and celebrates the publicaiton of her groundbraking and highly praised new book WILD NIGHTS, WILD NIGHTS: The Story of Emily Dickinson's Master Figure: Neighbor and Friend and Bridegroom, a novel based on its Non-fiction Afterword: Lover of Science and Scientist in Dark Days of the Republic: POETS HOUSE, 10 River Terrace, Battery Park City, New York, NY . Party & Open Reading Lottery. FREE. [www.plainviewpress.net]

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March 13th, Fri. 6PM Daniela reads with Joanna Herman, Robert Viscusi, Peter Covino, and others from WILD DREAMS, an anthology of writings from Italian Americana. 6PM, Casa Italiana, New York University,24 W. !2th St. NY City. Free.

April 25 Sat.1:30 PM. Daniela presents Poets of the Return: Emanuel Carnevale and Joseph Tusiani @ CUNY: Calandra Institute, 25 West 43rd St. 17th Fl. New York City. Free.

2008 Readings & Events Past
Aug. 10th Sun. 4PM
Daniela Gioseffi will be featured reader with Sandy Rochelle at the East Hampton Marine Museum. Reception follows. 301 Bluff Rd. Amagansett, Long Island. Admission free. Tel. 631-324-6850. Info. www. easthamptonhistory.org/pages/marine.html

Sept. 14th Sat. Brooklyn Book Fair, Borough Hall Park, Court St. at Joralamen and Montague. Brooklyn, NY. PoetsUSA.com table. Autographed copies of BLOOD AUTUMN, Autunno di sangue. Winner the 2007 John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry.

Oct. 16th Thurs. East Stroudsburg University, PA., 7 PM Student Center: hosted by Professor Fred Misurella of The English Dept., Daniela Gioseffi, Winner of the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, 2007, and OSIA NY State Literary Award, 2008, reads from Blood Autumn: New & Selected Poems.

Oct. 23rd, Sun. 3PM. Wellspring House: Ashfield MA., 3PM: hosted by Preston Browning, Daniela Gioseffi reads with Ann Hutt Browning and Susanne Dubroff.

Nov. Thurs. 13th, 6:30 PM. Bordighera Annual Poetry Prize Awards 2008, hosted by Daniela Gioseffi with Anthony J. Tamburri, Calandra Institute, CUNY, 25 West 43rd St. 17th Flr. Manhattan.

Nov. 14th Fri. 7 PM. Daniela Gioseffi featured with Fran Castan. Peace Poetry Festival of The Hudson Valley Writers Center, 300 Riverside Dr. Sleepy Hollow, New York. (Philips Manor Train Station.)Tel: 914-332-5953.
E-Mail: info@writerscenter.org Web: http://www.writerscenter.org/

June 7th, Sat. 11:30 AM, Desmond Hotel, OSIA NY Lodge: 660 Albany Shaker Road. RECEPTION for the New York State Literary Award, 2008 to Daniela Gioseffi. Albany, New York.

May 10th, Sat.1 PM to 3:30 PM Daniela Gioseffi hosts: Meena Alexander Rishma Dunlop Annie Finch Marilyn Hacker Marie Ponsot Yerra Sugarman Reading Poems Celebrating Mother’s Day from WHITE INK: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood Edited by Rishma Dunlop Published by Demeter Press: Toronto: Association for Research on Mothering @ Bowery Poetry Club, 308 Bowery St. Manhattan. Tel. 212-614-050.

Apr. 20th, 6PM. Sun. Eve. Night & Day Poetry Series @ Cafe, Daniela Gioseffi, David Evanier, Laurel Blossom, 5th Ave. Corner of President St. Park Slope Brookl.yn, NY. Carl Rosenstock Hosts.

Apr. 12th 6 PM. Sat. Eve. Cornelia St. Cafe near Bleecker Greenwich Village Village, Manhattan, Features Daniela Gioseffi & Gary Ciocca, Hosted by Gil Fagiani & Maria Lisella, IAWA Open Reading Starts the Eve. Tel. 212-989-9319. Cover charge.

Mar. 19th, 7 PM, Wed. Eve. Celebrate MOBIUS Poetry Magazine'sİ25th Anniversary: Daniela Gioseffi* Colette Inez * Samuel Manashe * Stephen Stepanchev * Juanita Torrence-Thompson @ BORDER'S BOOKSTORE, Park Ave.& 57th St., NYC.

Mar. 15th Sat. 5-hr. Workshop, THE WRITER'S VOICE: Noon--5PM
Word Power for Poets & Prose Writers: Writing Your Conscience. Info:Literary Director, YMCA Writer's Voice,
Tel. 212-875-4124, 5 W. 63rd St. NYC 10023. -------

Past 2007 Events: May, 2007 Daniela Gioseffi won the John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry $1,000 and spent the summer touring Italy. Her 2007 book Blood Autumn, Autunno di sangue, was well reviewed in Voce del Companone, Perugia, Spring 2007.

Aug. 3rd, 2007, Fri. 7 PM Daniela read with Umberto Piersanti at the University of Urbino in Urbino-Pesaro, Le Marche, Italy.

Past 2006 Events:

Oct. 6th, 2006, Fri. 7 PM, Poets House, Book Party & Reading with Daniel Thomas Moran, celebrating new book of poetry: BLOOD AUTUMN. Refreshments. 72 Spring St. 2nd Fl. Manhattan. NY. FREE. Come help us celebrate our new books.

Nov. 16th, Thursday 6 PM.
McNally Robinson Book Store with Colette Inez & Sharon Olinka
52 Prince St. (between Lafayette and Mulberry) NY, NY FREE. (212) 274-1160

Mar, 30th, Friday, 6PM, 2007,The Pink Pony West Series Host, Jackie Sheeler, wirh Pat Falk, New Book Reading & Open
CORNELIA ST. CAFÉ, $6 Cover. 29 Conelia St. (off Bleecker St.)
Greenwich Village, New York City. 212-989-9389. www.corneliastreetcafe.com/

SEPT. 17th, Sunday, Noon to 5 PM
HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY 14th Annual IA FESTIVAL. Poets Piazza. FREE. With Peter Covino, Angelo Verga, Robert Viscusi, Louisa Calio, Alfredo de Palchi, et. al.
Emily Lowe Hall room 106, Hofstra Campus
Off Hempstead Turnpike, Long Island, NY

Sept.9th, Sat. 2006, 6 PM, Canio's Book Store, with Daniel Thomas Moran, Poet Laureate of Suffolk County. Main St. Sag Harbor, Long Island, NY. Free.

Jun.12th, 2006, Mon. 6 PM, Cornelia St. Cafe, with Daniel Thomas Moran & Samuel Manashe, 29 Cornelia St. Greenwich Village, New York City. $6

Mar.19th, 2006, Sun. 6 PM, Night & Day Poetry Cafe, with Hugh Seidman & Harvey Shapiro, Fifth Ave. Corner of President St. Park Slope, Brooklyn, NY.

Mar. 5th, 2006, Sun. 3 PM, Bowery Poetry Club, with Karen Swenson, Jim Hightower, others, reading Isabella Gardner for The Dead Women Poets Society. 308 Bowery near Bleecker. Lower Eastside, Manhattan.

2005 Past Events:

Dec. 10th, 2005, Sat. 7 PM, Queens International Poetry Festival with Ali Jimale Ahmed, Diario Burns, Nioole Delgado, Luis Francia, Daniela Gioseffi, Harlym 125, Pwu Jean Lee, John Lynch, Ralph Nazareth, Myrna Nieves, Mario Susko, Pramila Venkateswaran, and Ricardo Leon Pena Villa. Master of Ceremonies: Carletta Joy Walke. Music by Griot Papa Susso, Afro-Cuban Drumming with David Gomez and Friends.Presented by Movement One: Creative Coaliton. Paul Catafago, Director. LaGuardia Performing Arts Center. Little Theatre. 47th Ave. at Van Dam St. Long Island City, Queens. Free.

Oct. 1st, 2005, Sat. 2-4 PM, BOWERY POETRY CLUB, Down Town Manhattan, 308 Bowery Street at Bleecker: Tsunami Benefit with Judy Robinson, Edwin Torres, Hal Sirowitz, Rochelle Ratner, George Wallace, BarryWallenstein, Jean Bass, and others reading from ONLY THE SEA KEEPS; An International Anthology of Poetry to Benefit the Tsunami & Katrina Survivors. $5

September 18th, Sun. 2005 11-5 PM Hofstra University, North Campus, Long Island, Daniela Gioseffi, Featured Poet. Italian American Poets Festival with Paola Corso, George Guida, Rachel Guido DeVrees, Robert Viscusi, Mary Jo Bona, Aldo Tambellini, Louisa Calio, et. al. Hosted by Carolyn & Vito DeSimone. Free.

May 7th, 2005, Sat. 2 PM BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY. Daniela Gioseffi reads with Sapphire and Kimiko Hahn: Brooklyn Poets Celebrate the 125 Anniversary of Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass and "Democratic Vistas" 128 Pierrepont St. Brooklyn Heights, NY, corner of Clinton St., one block from Montague St. near all Borough Hall Stops.

March 12th, 2005, Sat.1-4 PM, BOWERY POETRY CLUB, Down Town Manhattan, Bleecker & Bowery Streets: Women's History Month Celebration of WOMEN ON WAR with Sapphire, Meena Alexander, Donna Masini, Marilyn Hacker, and many others. $6

Past Fall 2004 Events:

September 12th, 2004, Sun. 6 PM, Cornelia St. Cafe, with Meena Alexander, D. Nurkse and David Yezzi. 29 Cornelia St. Greenwich Village, Manhattan.

September 18th, Sat. 2004, 12 noon to 4pm. Queens Multicultural Festival with Fuad Attal (Arabic) , Milly Brig (Spanish), N.M. Danish (Urdu) , Jyoti Datta (Bengali) , Peggy Garrison, Daniela Gioseffi, Harlym 125, Sang Hee Kwak (Korean) , Pwu Jean Lee, Dr. Shehla Naqvi (Urdu), Richard Newman, Onome, Tarlok Singh (Punjabi) , Ella Smith, Ricardo Leon Pena Villa (Spanish) , Huang Xiang (Chinese) and Wang Yu.Paul Catafago, Director. Flushing Library Auditorium: Queens 41-17 Main St. Free.

September 19th, 2004 11-5 PM Hofstra University, North Campus, Long Island, Italian American Poets Festival with Paola Corso, Stephen Massimilla, Fred Gardaphe, Maria Mazziottti, Louisa Calio, et. al. Hosted by Vito DeSimone.

October 8th--10th 2004 at The Emily Dickinson Homestead, Amherst, MA. and in Residence at WellSpring House Writers Retreat, October 1-16th, Ashfield, MA.

October 23rd, Sat. 3 PM 2004, Corniela St. Cafe, Michael Broader, host.Poets: Wanda Phipps and Hal Sirowitz, Daniela Gioseffi guests.

November 10th, Wed. 2004 6PM with Paola Corso. Long Island University, Brooklyn Campus, Flatbush Ave. Extension, Brooklyn, N.Y.

March 13th, 2004, Sat.1-4 PM, BOWERY POETRY CLUB, Down Town Manhattan, Bleecker & Bowery Streets: Women's History Month: WOMEN ON WAR with Sapphire, Meena Alexander, Marilyn Hacker, Grace Shulman, Donna Masini, Brenda Gannam, Gabrielle, LeMay, Pwu Jean Lee, Rochelle Ratner, Pat Falk, Marie Ponsot, Alicia Ostriker, and many others.

March 28th, Sun., 3 PM with Blanche Wiesen Cook, Star Black, Fran Castan, Joanne Carter, Siv Cedering, Elizabeth Thunder Bird Haile, Kaylie Jones, ROGERS MEMORIAL LIBRARY, Southampton, Long Island. Free. Info. 1-516-283-0774 Ext. 523.

April 10th, Sat. 2004, 2 -4:45 PM, Sat. Brooklyn Heights Public Library Auditorium: National Poetry Month, Celebrating Literary Brooklyn with Brooklyn Poets. i.e. Donna Masini, D.Nurkse, Carl Rosenstock, Richard Levine, Rika Lesser, Bob Hershon Donna Brook, Harvey Shapiro, Robert Viscusi, Mae Jackson, Patricia Spears Jones, Brenda Gannam, and many more, 280 Cadman Plaza West, Boro Hall area, Brklyn. Free Admission.

February 14th, 2004, 5:45 PM Cornelia St. Cafe, Italian American Writers Association, 29 Cornelia St. NY City.

2003 APPEARANCES:

February 8th, Sun. 3PM The Ear Inn with Mary Giamo. 326 Spring St. Manhattan, near West St.. Free

March 4th Tues. with Molly Peacock, D.H. Melhem, Pwu Jean Lee and Jean Casella of the Feminist Press, CUNY Graduate Center The City University of NY, 365 Fifth Avenue, at 34th St. Manhattan Launching the publication of Women On War. Free.

March 12th, Wed. 6PM to 8PM. with Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Louisa Ermelino for The National Organization of Italian American Women at New York University: Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimo, Auditorium, 24 West 12th St. between 5th & 6th Aves. Manhattan. Free. Info call NOIAW @ 212-237-8574.

March 13th, Thurs., 1:15 to 2:45 PM, Women On War Symposium, Commission for the Status of Women, across from 777 United Nations Plaza sponsored by Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, with Jean Casella of the Feminist Press. Call For info. call Jess of The Feminist Press. Admmission free.

March 20th, Thurs. 8 PM, Daniela Gioseffi, DH Melhem, Elaine Schwager, with other women poets read for peace for UNESCO's International Poetry Day for Peace at the Open Center, 83 Spring St. Manhattan. www.opencenter.org or Tel. 212-226-4056. Admission charge.

March 25th Tues. 6:30 PM, Daniela Gioseffi with Sapphire and Lynne Sharon Schwartz for Women's History Month, Celebrate Women On War (The Feminist Press, NY, 2003) at The Brooklyn Heights Public Library, 280 Cadman Plaza West, near Boro Hall stops. Free. Call library for info. Tel. 718-623-7100.

April 13th at 1PM, Daniela Gioseffi and others read Women's Peace Poetry from Women On War at CBGB'S Downstairs Gallery, across from The Bowery Poetry Club, Bowery & Bleecker. Manhattan. Part of The Peoples Poetry Gathering Sponsored by Poets House & City Lore. Check www. poetshouse.org for info.

April 23rd, Wed. 7-9:30 PM Daniela Gioseffi with Grace Paley, Robin Morgan, Jayne Cortez, Blanche Weissen Cooke, Bklyn. Woman's Peace Chorus, Director Bev Grant, and others. reading from Women On War. The Great Hall, Cooper Union @ Astor Place, near St. Mark's Place, Manhattan. For info, call Jess at The Feminist Press (917) 837-1202. Free.

April 26th, Sat. Tentatively Scheduled at 2 PM., Sponsored by the Unitarian Universalist Women's Assn. of the NY Metropolitan District at http://www.metronydistric.org/ "Women On War: International Voices the New Nuclear Age" Community Church of New York. 40 East 35th St between Park & Madison.Reading/Talk/Symposium. For info, call Jess @ (917) 837-1202. Free.

April 27, Sun. 1PM, The Phoenix Reading Series with Jane Augustine, Enid Dame, and Singer/Songwriter Thea at The Liquor Store, 235 West Broadway, cor. of White Street. Tel. 212-226-7121. Suggested Contribution $5. Contact/Host: Michael Graves 718-621-1240 mikegraves50@hotmail.com A,C,E, to Canal Street or # 1 to Franklin St.

May 11th, Sun. 6PM. Celebrate Mothers' Day for its original meaning, an anti-war day by women who had lost sons in war with readings from Women On War: International Voices at THE CORNELIA ST. CAFE, 29 Cornelia St. near Bleecker St., Greenwich Village, Manhattan with Angelo Verga hosting and Pwu Jean Lee, singer songwriter, Thea, and others reading. $6 buys a drink & admission.

From June 7th -21st Daniela will be appeariang in the Amherst Massachusetts at The Food for Thought Book Store, and Smith College and the Holyoke Odessey Book Shop.

October 28th, Modern Times Book Store in San Francisco, 888 Valencia, Mission District. 7 PM.

October 30th, Cody's Book Store, Telegraph, Berkeley area, 7 PM and on Working Assets Radio with Laura Flanders 10 AM, San Francisco, California.

December 13th, The Italian American Book Fair, Fordham University, Lincoln Center, New York City, from 11 AM to 5 PM, Saturday afternoon. Also, at the Bordighera Press Poetry Book Prize Table and reading in the afternoon.

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