FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2007

Poetry

Cells Remember the Dark Mother
- L. Calio
Civil Twilight
- J. Campbell
Thirteen and Taken to Italy
- A. DiGennaro
Grandpa’s Wine
- G. Fagiani
scenes from an immigrant’s north
- J. Farina
Ritual
- V. Fazio
Embellishing an Irish Bible
- M. Flannery
My Father
- P. Franchini
Antietam’s Bloody Lane
- M. Galvin
Vulcano
- D. Grilli
Cuchulain Looks West from the Cliffs of Moher
- J Hart
Appolonia Remembers Her Wedding Day
- A. Iocavino
Dessert
- R. Leitz
The Same
- M. Lisella
Captured
- S. Mankerian
Penetration
- D. Massengill
On “Tuscan” Things
- N. Matros
Paddy Morgan
- D. Maulsby
Dreaming in Italian
- T. Mendez-Quigley
The Groom’s Lament
- J. Mulligan
Burns Supper
- K. Muth
Santorini
- P. Nicholas
Pop
- J. Nower
Tango, Tangere, Tetigi, Tactum
- M. O'Connor
My Italian Name
- J. Pignetti
A New Life with Bianca
- F. Polizzi
St. Anthony of Padua
- D. Pucciani
Chocolate Craze
- F. Sarafa
Black Irish
- J. Wells

FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2007

Prose

King Arthur in the Enchanted Garden of Mt. Etna
- E. Farinella
Review of Gil Fagiani’s ROOKS
- S. Dickinson
Review of Helen Baolini’s A CIRCULAR JOURNEY
- R. Holz

FEATURED ARTIST
Janine Coyne

BIOGRAPHIES

Contributors

Polly Franchini

MY FATHER For Oronzo Franchine (1922–1960) His name sounds like a bright foreign city, like music, water: Oronzo, Puglian prince. In sepia photographs, the grin, restless swagger, black-eyed beauty. In the Forties, he jumps a jazz rhythm by a lace-covered sofa. He paces past the brown rowhouse, faded faces, old lawn chair mazes. I dream him Astairing on Fifties counters with game stilettoed secretaries, sipping gin. When white shirts demark his olive skin, he shakes the foreign i from his name. A blue-eyed wife will give him dark children Who’ll drink red wine and sing the i back on.