Please join us at Tazza D'Oro for this great event. Amy _____ Visit Italy without leaving Pittsburgh--- Please join Rina Ferrarelli Joanne Samraney & Joan E. Bauer as they celebrate their Italian-American heritage through poetry. Friday, December 2 at 7 p.m. Tazza d'Oro Cafe & Espresso Bar 1125 N. Highland Avenue / Highland Park Admission is free. RSVP to Joanne Samraney at 412 819-0230 (Early seating and reservations suggested) Complimentary Italian cookies and wine to follow the reading Bio notes: Rina Ferrarelli is a poet and translator of modern Italian poetry who came from Italy at age fifteen. Her books of original poetry include Home is a Foreign Country and Dreamsearch, and two books of translation, Light Without Motion and I Saw the Muses. She has received an NEA and the Italo Calvino Prize from the Columbia University Translation center. Her work is widely published in journals and anthologies, including Barrow Street Denver Quarterly, the Hudson Review, the International Quarterly, Poet Lore, Tar River Poetry, Voices in Italian Americana, among many others. Joanne Samraney's book, Grounded Angels was the winner of the Acorn-Rukeyser Award. Her poetry has appeared in Verve, The Loyalhanna Review, The Pennsylvania Review, City Paper, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and on poetrymagazine.com. Another recent book, Breaking Bread with the Boscos, a unique collection of family poems, memories and recipes, is a holiday favorite. Joan E. Bauer was educated at UCLA and UC Berkeley. Her mother's family, the Dispartes and Dragos, came from Palermo, Sicily to the U.S., settling first in San Antonio, then moving on to Los Angeles. Joan's poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, 5 AM, Janus Head, The Lyric, Main Street Rag, Voices in Italian Americana, and other journals. She is associate editor of Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami. * * * (For a cool flyer featuring the Leaning Tower of Pisa, please see attachment.)