| 词条 | Daniela Gioseffi |
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Gioseffi is the editor of Eco-Poetry.org: Climate Justice Literature and Alerts and PoetsUSA.com, both of which feature accomplished, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poets as well as international authors of renown. Gioseffi was among the first Italian American women writers to be widely published in the mainstream of American poetry [https://www.scribd.com/doc/36607282/Daughters-of-Italy]. She has published sixteen books of poetry and prose and won a PEN American Center's Short Fiction prize 1995, and The John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry, 2007. Her verse was chosen to be etched in marble on a wall of the 7th Avenue Concourse of New York City’s Pennsylvania Station, and appears with verses by Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams among other poets. Gioseffi was featured on the Library of Congress Radio Show, The Poet and the Poem [https://www.loc.gov/poetry/media/poetpoem.html] sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts in 1996 and 2006. The radio show, hosted by author Grace Cavalieri, includes Poets Laureate of the United States and is widely syndicated throughout the country. She has been interviewed and recited poetry on National Public Radio and the BBC in London and Oxford. Gioseffi has presented her work on campuses and in cultural centers throughout the United States and in Europe. Women on War was translated into German and published in Vienna. Gioseffi’s biography appears in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975 , an encyclopedia from the University of Illinois Press. She is also included in Who's Who in America, The Directory of American Poets & Writers , and Contemporary Authors, as well at the [https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poets/detail/Daniela-Gioseffi Poetry Foundation of America] and The [https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/daniela-gioseffi Academy of American Poets] A documentary film Author and Activist: The Daniela Gioseffi Story was released by prize winning filmmaker, Anton Evangelista of Comprehensive Films, Inc. in 2016. The docu-drama previewed throughout the Metropolitan New York area including Hofstra University, The Calandra Institute of CUNY, Players Club, The Wesstchester Cultural Center and The Maya Deren Theatre, Manhattan. Her poem, Carbon Summer or Nuclear Winter won an award from The Robert Frost Foundation in 2015. It can be found on Eco-Poetry.org with others of her recent poems in both text and video presentation at Eco-Poetry.org Daniela Gioseffi books, papers and correspondence are now housed and cataloged as The Daniela Gioseffi Papers at the Beinecke Library of Books and Manuscripts at Yale University Library and can be seen in the online catalog CareerAn author poetry, fiction and non-fiction books from major and university presses, and a peace and social justice activist, Daniela Gioseffi began her career as a Civil Rights worker and journalist for WSLA-TV in Selma, Alabama, in 1961 during the era of the Freedom Riders and Sit-in demonstrations for integration of African Americans into American social institutions and schools. As an intern journalist, she dared to integrate Deep South television by going on an all Black Gospel Music Show and was menaced by the Ku Klux Klan for being among the first journalists to integrate Deep South television. Gioseffi was graduated from Montclair State University in New Jersey with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English, 1963 and awarded a scholarship for academic excellence and acting ability by The National Players to The Catholic University of America where she earned a Master of Fine Arts in World Drama, 1977—and attended with such notables as Susan Sarandon, Academy Award-winning actress, and Michael Christopher, Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright. While there, she acted with First Lady of the Theatre, Helen Hayes at the Hartke Theatre, and with Anne Revere at Olney Theatre, in Brecht's Mother Courage, in which she played Yevette Poitre and sang The Song of Fraternization which won her much applause and good review notices. She toured in Hamlet and Twelfth Night with The National Players Classical Repertory Theatre for a year. She met her husband Richard Kearney on that tour. He served as Technical Director for that tour and then as Assistant Technical Director at The Arena State, Wash. D.C. The couple had a daughter, singer songwriter, Thea D. Kearney, and moved to New York City where Richard became Technical Director and Designer at the Gershwin Theatre, Brooklyn College. Daniela studies with John Logan and May Swenson at the Poetry Center of the 92nd St.Y, and began published poetry in such journals at The World, and The Paris Review. Gioseffi's first writings were for the stage for which she won an award from The New York State Council for the Arts, funded by The National Endowment for the Arts for her poem-plays Care of the Body and The Sea Hag in the Cave of Sleep in 1971 produced Off Broadway in New York City. They are both feminist in theme. Prior to that she had played in classical roles, Shakespeare, Congreve, Molière, with the National Players' Touring Repertory Company out of Washington, D.C. (1964–66.) In 1977, she published her first book of poetry, Eggs in the Lake, from BOA, Editions, Ltd. a highly regarded poetry press then located at Brockport University, NY, and edited by poet/translator Al Poulin,Jr.The press published notable poets.e.g. John Logan, W.D. Snodgrass, Richard Wilbur, Isabella Gardner and many others. She won a second award grant funded by The New York State Council for the Arts, of The National Endowment for the Arts, for poems contained in her first collection of poetry, Eggs in the Lake, published by Boa Editions, Ltd. The book was prefaced with an introduction by the accomplished poet, John Logan. Subsequently, Gioseffi edited On Prejudice; A Global Perspective (Anchor/Doubleday: NY, 1993) a book of world literature that was widely used in various universities as a multicultural text for tolerance teaching. It was awarded a Plougshares Peace Foundation grant as was Women on War. Both compendiums were presented at The United Nations On Prejudice; A Global Perspective, was translated into Japanese and published in Tokyo where it was also used in colleges and universities to teach tolerance against all forms of xenophobia and mono-culturalism. Gioseffi has published four more collections of poetry, two novels, and a volume of short fiction. Blood Autumn: Autunno di sangue, a bilingual edition of new and selected poems, translated into Italian by five Italian poets and professors of Italian Language and Literature: Elisa Biagini, Luigi Bonaffini, Ned Condini, Luigi Fontanella, and Irene Marchegiani by VIA Folios/ Bordighera Press of The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of The City University of New York. . She was a featured speaker at The First International Women's Book Fair in Barcelona, and at book fairs in Miami, Madrid, Venice, London, and New York City. She served as a poet/consultant to the Poets-in-Public Service program, sponsored by The New York State Council for the Arts, fulfilling residences in Public Schools, Prisons, Senior Centers and Colleges from 1972 to 1986, for which she received a Partner in Education Award from The Board of Education of the City of New York. Before retiring from teaching in 1962, she taught at Brooklyn College, Pace University, New York University’s Publishing Institute, and The Manhattan's College of Visual Arts, and has received a Lifetime Achievement Award in Education from The Association of Italian American Educators, 2003 . Early years: biographical detailsDaniela Gioseffi was born in 1941 in Orange, New Jersey, the daughter of an Arbereshe Italian immigrant father, Daniel Donato Gioseffi, one of the first Italian immigrants to win a Phi Beta Kappa in the United States from the alpha chapter of Union College in Schenectady. Her mother was a war orphan of Polish and Russian Jewish descent who worked as a seamstress and dress designer. Because of her mother's orphan status, and her father's large Italian family, Gioseffi grew up with a strong imprint of Italian American culture. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5R28DDgTAd4C&pg=PA82&lpg=PA82&dq=Daughters+of+Italy+daniela+gioseffi&source=bl&ots=IWStR4H-23&sig=3oyzhycx5O7fniPeCdFJ_TWmrPI&hl=en&ei=uZ1iTa-oAc2htwfF5oWlDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBMQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false] She grew up in Newark and attended Avon Avenue Public School, later moving to Little Falls, New Jersey, where she attended Passaic Valley High School and served as valedictorian of her graduating class of 1959. She was a member of the Honor Society, served on the twirling or drum majorette squad, and as a president of The Girls’ Athletic Association. Active in the drama club as a leading actress in several school plays, she co-edited the school newspaper writing several editorials of sociopolitical community concern. Next, she attended Montclair University to graduate near the top of her class and to be active in college theatre productions, holding leading roles and majoring in English Literature and Speech and Theatre, and was graduated in 1963. While at Montclair University, she began publishing poetry in the campus literary magazine. She won a scholarship to study World Drama at the well known Speech and Theatre Department of The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at CUA, Washington, D.C., with such luminaries as Philip Bosco and the Academy Award-winning actress, Susan Sarandon, as classmates. During the next several years, she published in various literary magazines, placing poems in such venues as The Paris Review, The Nation, Poetry East, Chelsea Literary Review, Choice – throughout the late 1960s and 70s. Her first novel with Doubleday, Dell, and New English Library, a feminist comedy titled The Great American Belly Dance was optioned for a screen play by Warner Bros. That first novel won her favorable reviews, most notably from Pulitzer and National Book Award Winning author, Larry McMurtry in The Washington Post. The book also earned her a tour of the United States and England, 1977–1979, during which Gioseffi was interviewed by various hosts of NPR and BBC radio and television both in the United States and Europe. She traveled widely in the US and Europe presenting a multimedia piece, The Birth Dance: A Celebration of Women and the Earth in Poetry, Music and Dance, for the New Feminist Talent Agency through the 1970s and 80's. After publishing Eggs in the Lake her first collection of poems, 1979, , she traveled the US giving readings and presentations of her work on numerous campuses. Gioseffi has lived the rest of her writing life in Brooklyn Heights New York City, where she created the First Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk [https://books.google.com/books?id=Qwkexx6OATEC&pg=PR10&lpg=PR10&dq=daniela+gioseffi+brooklyn+bridge+poetry+walk&source=bl&ots=8Qe-MlCUmc&sig=gD7HySuuelXEn1-WDhE8PTxuj-U&hl=en&ei=UqJiTZCNCI2ctwf_3eT0Cw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=9&ved=0CFIQ6AEwCA#v=onepage&q=daniela%20gioseffi%20brooklyn%20bridge%20poetry%20walk&f=false] – now produced by Poets House every year as a spring fund raiser . Since 1979, Gioseffi has been a member of Poets House, The Poetry Society of America, The Academy of American Poets (where her bio. appears on the AAP website as it does on the Poetry Foundation of America website), PEN American Center, and The National Book Critics Circle, as well as The Freedom from Religion Foundation. Among the notable poets who have written favorably of Gioseffi’s work and writings are Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, D. Nurkse, Bob Holman, Milton Kessler, Philip Appleman, and Grace Paley. Published & produced works
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