The Poet and the Poem
2022-23 Series

Featured Maria Lisella

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Maria Lisella's collections include: Thieves in the Family (NYQ Books), Amore on Hope Street (Finishing Line Press) and Two Naked Feet (Poets Wear Prada). Recent work appears in the anthologies: Stronger Than Fear: Poems of Empowerment, Compassion, and Social Justice; Without a Doubt (NYQ Books) and NYC through the Eyes of the Poets Who Live Here. She is the Queens Poet Laureate and an American Academy of Poets Fellow; is poetry editor for VIA Voices in Italian Americana; contributes to La Voce di NY and Never Stop Traveling and co-curates the Italian American Writers Association readings.

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