Location:
Brooklyn Heights, NYC
What are you working on right now?
A biographical novel on the Life & Poetry of Emily Dickinson: Wild Nights: Emily Dickinson's True Master.
Did you publish a book this year?
Blood Autumn (Autunno di sangue) New & Selected Poems, translated by Elisa Biagini, Bonaffini, Ned Condini, Luigi Fontanella & Irene Marchegiani of Italy.
Did you publish anything online this year?
www.SugarMule.com
www.PoetsUSA.com
www.ItalianAmericanWriters.com
What's the best book you read this year?
Their Other Side: Six American Women & The Lure of Italy, by Helen Barolini, Fordham University, 2006.
Water on the Sun: Poems by Grace Cavalieri, Bordighera Press, 2006.
Who was the best new writer you read this year?
Daniel Thomas Moran, Poet Laureate of Suffolk County and Maria Terrone, A Secret Room in Fall, Poems, Ashland Poetry Press, Ohio, 2006
What was the best work in translation you read this year?
Luigi Bonaffini's translation of Luciano Troisio, Oriental Parnassus, Lega Press, Mineola NY & Ottawa, Ontario, 2006
What is your favorite literary web site?
www.PoetsUSA.com
What was the best literary event you attended this year?
Al Gore's film Inconvenient Truth, and the book based on the film, because though it's not exactly "literary" it is the MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE Facing survival of humanity and its books.
Did you attend any PEN events this year?
PEN New Members and New Books by Members night at Housing Works, because I had friends as new members and a new book, and I've been a member since 1978.
What was the most important literary news this year?
When Hugo Chavez of Venezuela held up Noam Chomsky's Failed Nation States at the United Nations and said read it!
What do you value most about your Membership to PEN?
That PEN fights for the 1st amendment and the petition against the Patriot Act...
For how long have you been a Member of PEN?
Since 1978 when my first novel was published by Doubleday and my first book of poems from BOA Editions came out.
What literary topics would you would like to see discussed by PEN Members in an online forum?
How the book is overshadowed by other media in the younger generations. And the future of pubication on the internet, how will writers earn money and preserve copyright in future on the World Wide Web.
Any other news?
I was featured on the Library of Congress Radio Show with a reading and an interview funded by the NEA, The Poet and the Poems in 2006. It airs on public radio stations around the country and is hosted by Grace Cavalieri for over 25 years, and features all the finest poets of the country from Stanley Kunitz to Rita Dove, Billy Collins, and Donald Hall.
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