Queer and Italian Canadian, A Video Documentary
Relatively few Canadian writers and artists of Italian heritage openly…
Piazza Purgatorio: A Love Letter to Italy During the Pandemic
“T’avia sarbàtu du aranci. Mah…” says Zia Carmela. I saved you the last of the oranges. But… She sighs. I am talking with my aunt on the phone in Sicilian, our mother tongue. “Cu è? A nuòstra Francuzza?” I hear Zio Luigi in the background. I am in Montreal and they are in Joppolo Giancaxio, the small village where I grew up in the province of Agrigento. I was all set to leave for a…
Nothing says Italian style like…
"If you look at events…
Guido Nincheri was one of…
What Leaving Brings
I In the timelessness that is empathy, he watched them all go. He watched them go amidst indigo: the dark…
Patrizio Buanne: Neapolitan Crooner and Really Nice Guy
In a career spanning more than 25 years, Neapolitan pop-crooner and international multi-platinum recording artist Patrizio Buanne has won over…
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But For Now We Stay Home
For our mammas! Francesca LoDico’s radio special, "But For Now We Stay Home,” is about her mamma coping with the…
Mary Melfi on her Memoir, In the Backyard: Relearning the Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love
Through her new book, In the Backyard: Relearning the Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love (Guernica 2018), Mary Melfi…
The Past Is Not Such a Foreign Country
It was 1811, the year of Napoleon's Comet and the birth of his son. It was a time of a…
Where Angels Come To Earth: An Evocation of the Italian Piazza
Every type of communal life that goes on in the Italian city touches upon the piazza at some point. It…
Centro Arte e Cultura Alberto Di Giovanni in Roccamorice
To honour his hometown of Roccamorice in the mountains of Abruzzo, Alberto Di Giovanni established an exquisite cultural museum in…
The Gentrification of Griffintown
Dedicated to my grandmother Maria Luisa Agostino, my great-aunt Carmela and my father-in-law Domenico Adornato who, like thousands of other…
IN MEMORIAM: The Legacy of Pier Giorgio Di Cicco
Poet and priest Pier Giorgio Di Cicco passed away on December 22, 2019. As a poet and editor, his contributions…
Aldo Del Col – Meritorious Service Medal Recipient
“The doctor gave me three to five years to live. I thought that wasn’t enough. I decided I would get…
Guido Cocomello: From Stand-up to Stage Acting
As a stand-up comic, Guido Cocomello has a reputation for being unpredictable and audacious. His uninhibited performances have garnered him…
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Italy’s Years of Lead
"If you look at events in Italy from the late 1960s to the late 1980s without any context, it would…
A Rusting Freighter Spurred World Attention to a Refugee Crisis
When Saigon was overrun by Communist forces on April 30, 1975, thousands of Vietnamese began a rush for freedom. One…
Blurred Nationalities across the North Atlantic
Long before the mid-nineteenth century, thousands of people were constantly moving between the United States and British North America, and Leghorn,…
Mary Melfi on her Memoir, In the Backyard: Relearning the Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love
Through her new book, In the Backyard: Relearning the Art of Aging, Dying and Making Love (Guernica 2018), Mary Melfi…
Caterina Edwards on the French Translation of Her Novel, The Sicilian Wife
Caterina Edwards immigrated to Edmonton at age eight with her British father and Venetian mother. The Edmonton author was the…
George Amabile on War, Trauma, the Creative Process, and His Latest Collection Martial Music
George Amabile has published ten books. He is the winner of numerous national and international awards. His poetry, fiction and…
More Precious than Diamonds
Despite my frequent trips to Italy, I consciously decided never to learn the language. With blissful ignorance, I always preferred…
Italian San Francisco
It is impossible to think of San Francisco without its Italian heritage. There are the notables: A.P. Giannini, who founded…
Canadian Problems
It’s a Canadian problem. When you’re overseas, people don’t know what to make of you. You’re not American but you…
The Past Is Not Such a Foreign Country
It was 1811, the year of Napoleon's Comet and the birth of his son. It was a time of a…
Making Sense of a Troubled Life in My Father, Fortune-Tellers & Me by Eufemia Fantetti
Eufemia Fantetti’s most recent book, My Father, Fortune-Tellers & Me: A Memoir (Mother Tongue Publishing, 2019) is a gripping outpouring…
Inside the Noisy Bubble of a Totalitarian State: Possess the Air by Taras Grescoe
Taras Grescoe presents himself as a travel writer who falls for a place and then looks around for a book…
Life, Possibilities, and the Kalahari’s Many Secrets in The Afrikaner by Arianna Dagnino
Arianna Dagnino was born in Genova, Italy. After Moscow, London, and Boston, she worked in South Africa as a foreign…
Twin Chef
Emma’s hand shook as she presented her dish to the judges. Her lower lip trembled, as did the lavender-infused pannacotta…
The Pheasant
They had married in September and it was the end of October when Giovanni stood alone at Malpensa airport waiting…
Famous Poet: Please Give Me a Dollar
Sometimes I have to laugh. I’ve got three dollars in my pocket. There’s a blinking phone message from my country…
Every Novel Has a Soundtrack
Long-form writing is a lonely business. In a previous blog (“Writing With My Feet”), I talked about the role of…
Translation As Metaphor for Migration
In her Italian-Canadian Narratives of Return. Analysing Cultural Translation in Diasporic Writing (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, pp. 436) Michela Baldo maps…
Paola Breda on Land of Triumph and Tragedy
Compiled after decades of research by Marino Toppan, Land of Triumph and Tragedy: Voices of the Italian Fallen Workers is…
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli on La Brigantessa, Her Historical Novel Set in 19th Century Calabria
Rosanna Micelotta Battigelli is the author of La Brigantessa (Inanna Publications, 2019), a novel based on true events in the…
With Heart and Love, Emilio Di Giuseppe’s Diary of a Tufarolo
Bruna Di Giuseppe-Bertoni is the editorial author of Diary of a Tufarolo. The text, in Italian, consists of her father’s…
Italian-Canadian Writers Gather for Conference in Winnipeg
If you could choose a first conference to attend as a speaker, the Biennial Conference of the Association of Italian-Canadian Writers…
Premio Italia nel Mondo 2018
Life and passionate pursuits deserve celebrating. The Premio all’eccellenza del lavoro e alla cultura Italiana nel Mondo, bestowed upon four…
Accenti Supporters Gather at Gala
Accenti Magazine and its newly-formed Foundation welcomed the vernal equinox with a dazzling dinner and dance gala. On the eve of…
ACCENTI MAGAZINE AWARDS: Celebrating Creativity with Style
Since 2003 Accenti has been a vehicle for expressing creativity through words and images. With its annual writing and photo contests, Accenti celebrates the…