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FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2013

Poetry

Florentia
- O. Arieti
Leather Dialogues
- D. Bastianutti
Visiting Yeats When The Center Cannot Hold
- A. Cohen
Olive Girl
- M. Crescenzo
Belle Harbor: Hurricane Sandy’s Legacy
- L. Dolan
I Dream I Speak Italian with Grandma
- G. Fagiani
For My Daughter’s Sixth Grade Heritage Project
- K. Falvey
Nativity
-K. Falvey & G. Guida
Here
- M. Fazio
DOSS0 2008
- C. Ferrari-Logan
New York Edifice
- D. Friedman
The Light
- S. Jackson
Cry Baby
- C. Lanza
Un Beso in Cuba
- M. Lisella
Now That You’ve Gone So Long
- M. Maggio
The Relocation of Mint
- S. Mankerian
Passersby
- P. Meshulam
On the Transmigration of the Greek Soul
- C. Mountrakis
Eithela Na Sou Po
- P. Nicholas
In the Cold Night Air
- F. Polizzi
Arvuli A Primavera
- N. Provenzano
Still, Still
- D. Pucciani
Driving on the Left
- C. Stone
Carrickmacross
- G. Tuleja

FEILE-FESTA
Spring 2013

Prose

Remembering Ruth Singing Peggy Gordon
- K. Cain
Johnny on the Spot
- D. Dewey
Interview: Grace Cavalieri on her Italianitá, Poetry and Why It Makes Sense to Read a Poem a Day
- M. Lisella
Green Beans
- J. McCaffrey
Patrick
- M. Ó Conchúir
For the Girl Lying on Her Back in a Field of Yellow
- A. Sunrise

Featured Artist
Renzo Oliva

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Alan Cohen


Visiting Yeats When The Center Cannot Hold

On the road to Donegal
Ben Bulden’s Head looks down on
where he rests in turf near the oak and
iron door of Drumcliff’s gray
stone church his epitaph in gold
carved in limestone slate-gray:

     Cast a cold eye
     On life, on death
     Horseman, pass by!


In this land of poet-politicians
I’m one of those who can’t pass by
nor cast cold eye on one whose
quarrel with himself was so
prosodic, whose peace dropped slow
at Innisfree and puddles of
young men’s blood polluted
Ireland’s bogs and bee-fed glades.

I stop to sing whatever is well
made while other horsemen no
less reverent heed his epitaph
cast cold eye and indeed pass by.

But the best of those who do as
well as those who don’t are not
enough to hold the center and
shredded with too much passion
worlds fall apart as he warned.