FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2008

Poetry

ellipsis
- A. Bodhràn
For Valentino Lo Bianco “In Memoriam” July 2007
- L. Calio
Elbow Grease
- M. Carroll
Sacred Sod
- G. Fagiani
The Name He Did Not Want
- V. Fazio
La Visita (The Visit)
- M. Frasca
Finn McCool Crosses the Line
- J. Hart
After the Glanconer
- J. Knight
Lovestuck
- M. Lisella
Dun Arann
- J. Machan
Karaoke Swan Song
- P. Many
Sestina Terrona
- N. Matros
The Roofs of Siena
- J. McCann
History
- S. Moorhead
Patrimony
- P. Nichloas
Marriage Ellis Island Style
- F. Polizzi
The Years of Our Lord
- K. Scambray
The Girl with Botticelli Hair
- G. Tabasso
On a Dismal Night, in Dim Light Pondering a Tattered Map of Ireland
- H. Youtt

FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2008

Prose

Zen Dog Tricks
- C. Alpert
Eternal Death
- A. Di Renzo
Irish Monks (Monaci Irlandesi)
- E. Farinella
Black Coffee
- P. Germano
Review of Helen Barolini’s THEIR OTHER SIDE, SIX AMERICAN WOMEN & THE LURE OF ITALY
- R. Holz
Review of B. Amore’s AN ITALIAN AMERICAN ODYSSEY: Life line –Filo della vita: Through Ellis Island and Beyond
- T. Zeppetella

FEATURED ARTIST
Janine Coyne

BIOGRAPHIES

Contributors

Katharyn Howd Machan

Dun Arann Two thousand years of stone and stone and stone – these walls a circle in a circle, high atop an ancient island, clouds of bone above deep flowered grass, in Celtic sky. We listen to the poets share their words in Irish, English, English, Irish, lines as intricate as thunder warning birds that freest flight is more than wings from vines. Wind stiffens; how can we hold to this place of shared commitment? History has torn us into separate truths beside the face of justice, even though new poems are born. And yet, hope makes a marriage in this day – time-touched, here joined, we stay and stay and stay.