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Paola Corso Interviews Tina Kelley

Paola Corso Interviews Tina Kelley

Corso: Your latest poetry collection with CavanKerry Press, Rise Wildly, is published in a time of sacrifice and loss in our country from Covid-19 and the need for soul-searching, for coping with... Read More
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Paola Corso Interviews Fred Shaw

Paola Corso Interviews Fred Shaw

This interview was conducted on 6/18/20 @ 2:37pm PAOLA CORSO                                                                                                                       Your debut poetry collection about restaurant service workers, Scraping Away, couldn’t be more timely in the midst of COVID-19 lockdown and... Read More
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Exclusive Interview: Author Baron Wormser Addresses Talk of Dismantling The NEA, NEH and The Arts

Exclusive Interview: Author Baron Wormser Addresses Talk of Dismantling The NEA, NEH and The Arts

CavanKerry Press Authors in the Community: Paola Corso Interview with Baron Wormser Since its inception, CavanKerry Press has been committed to community. It’s outreach programs include Giftbooks, Waiting Room Reader,... Read More
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Paola Corso in The Christian Science Monitor

Paola Corso in The Christian Science Monitor

"My mother in the kitchen a generation later: On Christmas Eve, she removes plastic-wrapped shrimp cocktail and clams garnished with packets of lemon juice. She takes a slab of baked... Read More
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CKP Authors in the Community: Paola Corso interviews Dawn Potter

CKP Authors in the Community: Paola Corso interviews Dawn Potter

Since its inception, CavanKerry Press has been committed to community. It’s outreach programs include Giftbooks, Waiting Room  Reader, Bookshare, New Jersey Poetry Out Loud, and The Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. And... Read More
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Italian Americana reviews “The Laundress Catches Her Breath”

Italian Americana reviews “The Laundress Catches Her Breath”

This charming, poignant collection, winner of the 2012 Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing from the Working Class Association, paints a haunting portrait of working-class Pittsburgh as experienced by Corso’s protagonist known... Read More
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For Florenz: “The Laundress” by Paola Corso

For Florenz: “The Laundress” by Paola Corso

from The Laundress Catches Her Breath The Laundress 1. Sheets are wet worrisome mounds in the basket, socks a pair of sorry balls dripping in self-pity, underwear a limp limbo of... Read More
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"Blow Out the Candles" by Paola Corso

"Blow Out the Candles" by Paola Corso

there was       no twister       out her windowno gale spinning       a black cloud she mused       at the shingled pyramid       floating above... Read More
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"The Landress Catches Her Breath" wins Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing

"The Landress Catches Her Breath" wins Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing

Congratulations to Paola Corso! First Prize winner of the Tillie Olsen Award for Creative Writing for The Laundress Catches Her Breath Judge’s comment:This book is a precisely visionary evocation of working-class Pittsburgh... Read More
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