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

Shahe Mankerian

CAPTURED My mother did not always have Medusa hair. The black and white photograph before marriage shows mother smiling, content, with darker hair, with generous lips, her eyes in focus. This is mother before marriage, before 1964, before my father serenaded her in jazz clubs all along the rocky seashores of Rouché. This was mother with no children, with no peacock husband, no war in Lebanon. This was she with bruisless neck and tumorless breast. This was a woman my age. She did not drive. She walked, shooting dust on peacocks. her head erect, not tilted nor dyed. This is a woman I did not know, existed once before this picture, smiled and was captured.