An Evening with Maria Famà & Julia Lisella

Wed Jun 28 2023 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm

A Novel Idea on Passyunk | Philadelphia

A Novel Idea on Passyunk
Publisher/HostA Novel Idea on Passyunk
An Evening with Maria Fam\u00e0 & Julia Lisella
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Julia Lisella and Maria Famà, two award-winning poets, will read from their
work published by this press.
About this Event

Bordighera Press is dedicated to publishing creative works on the Italian diasporic

experience. Julia Lisella and Maria Famà, two award-winning poets, will read from their

work published by this press. Julia Lisella reads from her new book of poems, Our Lively

Kingdom; Maria Famà will read a selection of her poems from several of her books. The

poets invite questions about their work in an informal discussion after the reading!




Wednesday, June 28th 6:30pm at A Novel Idea

Suggested $5 Donation




About the Authors

Julia Lisella’s books include Our Lively Kingdom (Bordighera Press 2022) Always and

Terrain both from WordTech Editions, and a chapbook, Love Song Hiroshima. Her poems appear

in Ploughshares, Alaska Quarterly, Pangyrus, Lily Poetry Review, Nimrod, Mom Egg Review,

and many others. She has received writing residencies at MacDowell, Millay and the Vermont

Center for the Arts. She teaches at Regis College and co-curates the IAWA Literary Reading

Series in Boston.




Maria Famà, author of eight books of poetry, won Second Prize in the 2018 Allen Ginsberg

Poetry Awards. Her poems appear in many publications and she is featured reading her poetry in

three films. Her latest book is The Good for the Good, published by Bordighera Press in 2019.

Famà lives and works in Philadelphia.

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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

A Novel Idea on Passyunk, 1726 East Passyunk Avenue, Philadelphia, United States

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