FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2009

Poetry

The Shepard
- D. Bastianutti
In Grandfather's Garden (Nel Giardino del Nonno)
- L. Calio
A, E, I, O, U
- C. Carielli
Sappho Spoke for the Heartbroken
- T. Casa
Girl at the Deli
- B. Curley
Concupiscence
- L. Dolan
Caserta
- ellen
Size in Sicily(Misura in Sicilia)
- G. Fagiani
Litany of San Vito
- G. Fagiani
Legacy
- V Fazio
Descending
- D. Feela
Tasseomancy, My Grandmother and the Old Irish Art of Reading Tea Leaves
- M. Flannery
Never
- H. Fox
The Art of Giving
- K. Gerard
A Pair of Boots
- A. Guruianu
My Italian Farther Gives Birth
- J. Herman
Irish Linen
- K. Kenny
Empty Chairs
- M. Lisella
When I Lived a Short Distance Away
- K. Machan
Siren Song
- V. Maher
Montale's Lemons
- L. Mullenneaux
The Meditations of Beckett
- R. Murphy
Fear of Flying
- T. O'Connor
Zampogna
- F. Polizzi
What I Write About
- D. Pucciani
A Catalog of Irish Birds
- C. Reyes
Upon Rediscovering My Ancestors' Home In an Ancient Italian Town
- M. Saba
Thistles - Elgy for Vincent Scambray
- K. Scambray

FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2009

Prose

Oh, Glass
- R. Brown
The Summer of Love
- C. Bruni
The Doll (A Pupa)
- R. Del Borrello
Il commentario sul libro, Italia – Irlanda: Cultura e Valori (Bonanno Editore) Commentary on the book, IRELAND AND ITALY: Culture and Values (Bonanno Editore)
- E. Farinella
Review of Carol Bonomo Albright & Joanna Clapps Herman’s anthology, WILD DREAMS: The Best of Italian Americana (Fordham University Press)
- R. Holz
Bury Aunt Rosie...A Rosie by Any Other Name
- R. Junker
An Grá – Slabhra An Nádúir? (Love - A Chain of Nature?)
- M. Walsh

FEATURED ARTIST
Richard Holz

BIOGRAPHIES

Contributors

Tom O’Connor

Fear of Flying Samhain.* This fiery November eve, the sun shoveled under. Candle lanterns sprint, greeting earth and sea below the plane — it’s sword, sickle, and scythe in this death revel. Cold day’s obscured face, its rippling veils. Clutching arm-rests, I shoot a glimpse at what’s unmanifest outside clear glass — lifetimes over crests and clouds. Like summer’s underworld, I resign myself to look down where the sun will appear again, falling asleep at the outer edge of the universe... Samhain.   *Samhain Eve (Oidhche Shamhna) is one of the principal festivals of the Celtic calendar, and it signifies the final harvest. In modern Ireland and Scotland, the name by which Halloween is still known is “Oidhche Shamhna.”