Sunday April 11: Celebrate National Poetry Month with Maria Lisella at Molloy College

~~~~~~ Sunday, April 11, 2:30 p.m National Poetry Month Special Program: Readings from Long Island Sounds 2009 Hosted by Barbara Novack, Writer-in-Residence @ Molloy College Multipurpose Room Wilbur Arts Center, 2nd floor Molloy College 1000 Hempstead Avenue Rockville Centre, NY 11570 516.678.5000 ext. 6272/6468 Free and open to the public. No R.S.P.V. required. ~~~~~~ Maria Lisella's two chapbooks, Amore on Hope Street (Finishing Line Press) and Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada) were published in 2009. She has also authored poetry, a few short stories and won awards for her creative non-fiction that has appeared in anthologies such as Avanti Popolo: Italian American Writers Sail Past Columbus (ManicDPress, 2008), More Sweet Lemons (2011, Legas Press) while her Pushcart-Prize nominated poetry can be seen online and in print in Felie-Festa, Gradiva, Italian Americana, The New York Quarterly, Skidrow Penthouse, and others. She was a finalist in the competition for Poet Laureate in Queens in 2007. She has been reporting on the travel industry for the travel trade and consumer publications for the past 25 years and is a member of the New York Travel Writers Association. She has spelunked in caves in Madhyar Pradesh, rafted the Jordan River, ridden horseback in the foothills of Mt. Kilimanjaro, explored the great art museums of Europe, hiked Mt. Etna in Sicily and Mt. Washington in New Hampshire. Visit www.nytwa.info/marialisella/ TWO NAKED FEET by Maria Lisella ISBN 978-0-9817678-8-8 Soft Cover, Saddle Stitched, 24 pp. Poets Wear Prada, 2009 $8.00 (+ $1.50 S&H) ~~~~~~~~~~~~ AMORE ON HOPE STREET by Maria Lisella Finishing Line Press, 2009 $14 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ Maria Lisella T: 718-777-1178 E: marialisella@aol.com New York Travel Writers Association Italian American Writers Association *************************************************** Maria Lisella's Pushcart Poetry prize-nominated work appears in Amore on Hope Street from Finishing Line Press is now available on http://www.finishinglinepress.com and www.amazon.com Two Naked Feet is also available at Poets Wear Prada, http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/ * * * POETS WEAR PRADA C/O Roxanne Hoffman 533 Bloomfield Street - 2nd Floor Hoboken, NJ 07030 http://pwpbooks.blogspot.com/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Poets-Wear-Prada/41483895438 http://issuu.com/pradapoet http://twitter.com/pradapoet POETS WEAR PRADA is a small press based in Hoboken, New Jersey devoted to introducing new authors through limited edition, high- quality chaplets, primarily of poetry. New press, great authors, a publisher who is one miracle short of sainthood. --Angelo Verga, Poetry Curator of The Cornelia Street Cafe Poets Wear Prada is a poetry publishing house with excellent poets and affordable books with beautiful covers. Have you had your poetry today? --Meredith Sue Willis, Books for Readers Stylistically, these beautifully designed and produced chaplets bear their own distinctive signature. --Linda Lerner, Small Press Review Proud Member of CLMP http://poetswearprada.blogspot.com/ http://thesmokingbook.blogspot.com/ http://www.myspace.com/poetswearprada http://www.youtube.com/pradapoet