Joseph Fasano Hi, Libby. The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing does not currently have an audio format, unfortunately, but here is a clip of me reading the first chapt …more Hi, Libby. The Dark Heart of Every Wild Thing does not currently have an audio format, unfortunately, but here is a clip of me reading the first chapter: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy2AlRt... Alexandra Bianchi lives and works in Lunetto, a provincial village in Italy's Calabria region, which finds itself ravaged by war in the summer of 1945. Leonardo Gemetti, a young man from Lunetto, has been missing for nearly eight years, and all his village knows of him is that he has carried out an atrocity against the Italian partisans in Mussolini's fallen Republic of Salò. When Alexandra meets a masked figure in the streets of Lunetto, she cannot imagine what she will learn about history and her place in it. Blake Wallin is a writer from Atlanta specializing in poetry, fiction, and playwriting. A recent graduate of George Mason University’s MFA program in poetry, he attended the 2018 Kennedy Center Playwriting Intensive as well as the 2018 Virginia Quarterly Review’s Summer Workshop in Poetry. He is the author of two previous books, No Sign on the Island (Bottlecap Productions) and Occipital Love (Ghost City Press). Learning about one’s ancestors is a two-edged sword. I have personally discovered horror stories: a family massacred by Native Americans; forced conscription; generations of refugees pushing across continents, those persecuted for their faith traveling across an ocean; a runaway teenager fleeing a dictatorial father. And, most appalling of all, a beloved grandfather who spent four months in prison for attempted “ravishment” of a teenage girl.

Swallows fly in the basilica where Leonardo contemplated death; they fly in and out of Alexandra’s open bedroom windows as she and Leonardo tell their stories. They grow quiet when Alexandra gives birth. They represent hope, new life, renewal. Hamidzadeh’s poetry gives voice to the heartbreak of modern war. I can find no comparison to its gift. We cannot forgive the forces that have caused him such misery, but we can marvel at the transformative power of this important book.” – Charles Bane, Jr., Poet Laureate Nominee Of Florida.A book about friendship, covetousness, love, depravity, self-destruction, art, dreams, freaky magic, and Los Angeles. The Swallows of Lunetto by alumnus and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Undergraduate Creative Writing Joseph Fasano '08 was recently bought by Mallory Smart at Maudlin House. The book follows a young couple who escapes from Italian fascism during the end of the Second World War. The book will be published on November 25, 2022. http://ciderpressreview.com/contributors/joseph-fasano-ba-2011/ Cider Press Review 2011 Book Award Announcement

Cawley's debut chapbook "depression is a thunderstorm and i am a scared dog" is a journey of resiliency, perseverance and subjectivity to one's fallacies. Through lyricism and descriptiveness, Cawley battles her PTSD through her interactions with others, and questions them as well her observation of the situation. My life was moving on. I began a new relationship, moved, cut down on drinking (and then, later, stopped altogether). I gave myself the time and space to change. And all the while, those roots I’d put down into the darkness were doing their work.Magical moment' for author as he sat next to stranger on plane reading his book". 23 February 2023.

Luis Neer’s second chapbook is a study in catharsis itself. The title poem is ‘Become Death’; a sermon of paranoia, burder, an revelation; a cry against the atomic bomb; an impassioned homage to Neer’s literary hero, Allen Gingsberg. When the man flees, she follows him. They make a simple life together. They make a baby together. But the man cannot escape his fate. Also, I see that someone has remarked upon the use of Italian in the book, and I feel I should clarify to potential readers that there are literally only a few words/quotes in Italian, and the meanings are either explained later/earlier in the text, obvious, or very easily learned. IMO, it works kind of like Hemingway's use of Spanish in For Whom the Bell Tolls, giving texture and a feeling of place. Tony D’Angelo’s brother Nate is dead. His family is devastated, his life is thrown into upheaval, and he doesn’t want to deal with any of it. Not with his brother’s death, not with his guilt-ridden father, and not with the consequences of his erratic behavior involving his ex-girlfriend. But when he meets Mikey, a hallucination of his nine-year-old self dressed as a Ninja Turtle, Tony is forced to face all the things he’d rather not.How do we live with our choices, grow through them and beyond them? How do we love those who have committed evil? How do we live with the legacy of our ancestor’s acts? Mr Fasano’s neighbour introduced herself as Jan, and told him that a friend had suggested the book as a good love story.