Sicily in the Flavian World An Academic Conference and Tour of Ancient Sites Organisers : Antony Augoustakis and Joy Littlewood Southern Italy and Sicily (including nearby islands) are featured in Flavian literture, most prominently Silius Italicus’ Punica among others, as places with a rich Greco-Roman history, exceptional fertility and idyllic landscapes. These southern regions also...Read More
Writing Workshop with John S. Summerfield Jr., MFA, Goddard College, USA Inspiration, intimacy, and singularity are the foundations of writing practices. Translating them into forms and words, writers share their emotions that come from the deepest well of their souls. Nobody else knows that place. Readers need permission to unlock the entryway to that place. ...Read More
An Academic Conference and Tour of Ancient Sites Syracuse, Sicily 13-19 October, 2019 Even a cursory look at the remaining corpus of Pindar’s victory odes leaves one in no doubt about the wealth, power, and prestige of his Sicilian patrons. Exactly a third of the odes were composed for Sicilian athletic victories and those dedicated...Read More
LA “MIA” FINESTRA MAGICA SU PIAZZA SPLENDORE. Riflessione di Giuseppe Nuccio Iacono Devo ritornare a Siracusa… qui ho una stanza riservata tutta per me, dalla quale si gode della magica visione sul Paradiso. Da quella finestra SI AMMIRA LA PERFETTA BELLEZZA UMANA GLORIFICATA A BELLEZZA CELESTE. Bisogna essere sul posto per comprenderne la magica visione...Read More
C.J. Spataro is the MFA program director at Rosemont College and the editorial director of Philadelphia Stories and PS Books. She is a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant winner, and her short fiction has appeared in or is forthcoming in Iron Horse Literary Review, Switchgrass Review, Cahoodadoodaling, Permafrost, The Baltimore Review, Mason’s Road, Painted Bride Quarterly, and others. Her...Read More
Michelle Reale is an Associate Professor at Arcadia University in Glenside, Pennsylvania. She uses poetic inquiry to present her research among African refugees in Sicily and her poetry is mainly concerned with Italian-American life, ethnic identity, histories, family dynamics and remembrance and forgetting. Among her master’s degrees in English and Library and Information Science, she has an MFA...Read More
