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LaRosa was a clueless kid growing up in a Bronx housing project when he discovered there might be more to life. As the projects went from idyllic to dangerous, Paul made his way to The New York Daily News where he became a copyboy and later a reporter.

Ethnic Encounters is IAWA's latest series of literary events that features writers of various ethnic backgrounds. The series is often bilingual.

Of Locus Mentis, J.C. Todd writes, “You’ve got to revel in MaryAnn Miller’s poems: their wild variety, humor, dead-on truth. Their poetic high-jinks…their vivid detail seen through a painter’s trained eye..."

"Good writing is a type of skating," Ralph Waldo Emerson

A Brooklyn Love Story: Emergency Used Candles,” was a sell-out at Emerging Artists Theatre’s One Woman Standing Festival

Of Wilderness, Alicia Ostriker writes, “Our world needs poetry that can speak openly of body and spirit—their desire to live…. Line by line, phrase by phrase, take pleasure and wisdom from Anne Marie Macari’s radiant poems.”

Hieroglyphics of the Heart is Lawley's first poetry collection but she is already hard at work on her next, The Calligraphy of Courage forthcoming in 2012.

The Anarchist Bastard: Growing Up Italian in America is considered a “domestic epic.”

Of All Around Town, Diana Festa wrote: "...a sustained appeal to sensory perception, where stories evolve in musical beats and continue in painterly fashion, giving life to yearnings and retrospectives..."

Bowery Women: Poems, an extraordinary anthology including such national treasures as Anne Waldman, Ana Castillo, Sapphire, Jessica Hagedorn, Marie Ponsot, and Marie Howe, IAWA’s August Feature, Kathryn M. Fazio, plus former Broadway and HBO Def Jam poets like Ishle Yi Park and Suheir Hammad, slam winners, plus a crowd of new talents.