Maria Lisella

No matter how many countries Maria Lisella has visited (62), this native New Yorker finds the world at her doorstep in amazing Queens where its residents speak 149 languages. She writes for Never Stop Traveling, La Voce di NY and The Jerusalem Post. The sixth Queens Poet Laureate, in 2020 she received an Academy of American Poets Laureate Fellowship. She is a member of the Thursday Morning Poets and Brevitas and co-curates the Italian American Writers Association's literary readings. Her book "Thieves in the Family" has been described as “… a collection of postcards from the Global Village…”

The diaspora cannot be tweeted!

Can two centuries of Italian diaspora across the globe fit into a 30-second sound bite or a 280-character tweet? “No, no and no again,” say the faculty of the fourth edition of the Italian Diaspora Studies Summer Seminar. Sponsored by the John D. Calandra Italian American Institute and Roma Tre University, the session took place in Ostiense, a southern quarter of Rome. The 16 participants arrived from Turkey, Canada and Italy, and from California, Colorado, Indiana, New York, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania in the United States. The IDSSS is the dream child of a team of innovative scholars who have supported …

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