Daniela Gioseffi
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Daniela Gioseffi is a poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, and performer who won the American Book Award
in 1990 for Women on War; International Writings from Antiquity to the Present http://www.feministpress.org/books/daniela-gioseffi/women-war . First published in 1988 during the Cold War, by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster: NY, it was re-issued in an all new edition at the dawn of the Iraq War with many women of the Mid-East added, by The Feminist Press of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
, 2003. It was the first book of world literature to gather the global voices of women on the issues of war effecting their lives. It won the American Book Award in 1990 . Gioseffi is editor of PoetsUSA.com http://www.PoetsUSA.com which features accomplished, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning poets. Gioseffi was among the first Italian American women writers to be widely published in the main stream of American poetry http://www.scribd.com/doc/36607282/Daughters-of-Italy. She has published fourteen 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
, with verses by Walt Whitman
and William Carlos Williams
. Gioseffi was featured on the Library of Congress Radio Show, The Poet and the Poem http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem.html sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts
in 1996 and 2006. The radio show includes Poets Laureate of the USA 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 USA and in Europe. Women on War was translated into German and published in Vienna. Gioseffi’s biography appears in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f06/love.html, an encyclopedia from the University of Illinois Press. She is also included in Who's Who in America, The Directory of American Poets & Writershttp://www.pw.org/directory/index.php, and Contemporary Authors, as well as several other sources on the internet.
in 1961 during the era of the Freedom Riders and Sit-in demonstrations for integration of African Americans into American social institutions and schools. 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. 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 played in classical roles, Shakespeare, Congreve, Molière, with the National Players’ Touring Repertory Company out of Washington, D.C. (1964–66.) In 1977. 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,http://capa.conncoll.edu/gioseffi.eggs.html published by Boa Editions, Ltd. The book was prefaced with an introduction by the accomplished poet, John Logan.http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/286 Subsequently, Gioseffi edited On Prejudice; A Global Perspective (Anchor/Doubleday: NY, 1993) http://www.gioseffi.com/OnPrgudc.html 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, http://www.gioseffi.com/OnPrgudc.html 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. http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/19901 Blood Autumn: Autunno di sangue, http://www.Gioseffi.com 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 [www.bordigherapress.org/] of The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of The City University of New York.http://www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra/. She was a featured speaker at The First International Women's Book Fair in Barceloma, 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 http://www.aiae.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=45.
, the daughter of a Greek-Albanian 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. http://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 USA 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. http://www.vfa.us/mainsection.htm#DANIELA%20GIOSEFFI
After publishing Eggs in the Lake her first collection of poems, 1979, http://www.capa.conncoll.edu/gioseffi.eggs.html, 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 http://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 http://poetshouse.org/progcoming.htm#jun. Since 1979, Gioseffi has been a member of Poets House, The Poetry Society of America, The Academy of American Poets, 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
.
American Book Award
The American Book Award was established in 1978 by the Before Columbus Foundation. It seeks to recognize outstanding literary achievement by contemporary American authors, without restriction to race, sex, ethnic background, or genre...
in 1990 for Women on War; International Writings from Antiquity to the Present http://www.feministpress.org/books/daniela-gioseffi/women-war . First published in 1988 during the Cold War, by Touchstone/Simon & Schuster: NY, it was re-issued in an all new edition at the dawn of the Iraq War with many women of the Mid-East added, by The Feminist Press of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
City University of New York
The City University of New York is the public university system of New York City, with its administrative offices in Yorkville in Manhattan. It is the largest urban university in the United States, consisting of 23 institutions: 11 senior colleges, six community colleges, the William E...
, 2003. It was the first book of world literature to gather the global voices of women on the issues of war effecting their lives. It won the American Book Award in 1990 . Gioseffi is editor of PoetsUSA.com http://www.PoetsUSA.com which features accomplished, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning poets. Gioseffi was among the first Italian American women writers to be widely published in the main stream of American poetry http://www.scribd.com/doc/36607282/Daughters-of-Italy. She has published fourteen books of poetry and prose and won a PEN
International PEN
PEN International , the worldwide association of writers, was founded in London in 1921 to promote friendship and intellectual co-operation among writers everywhere....
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
Seventh Avenue (Manhattan)
Seventh Avenue, known as Adam Clayton Powell Jr. Boulevard north of Central Park, is a thoroughfare on the West Side of the borough of Manhattan in New York City. It is southbound below Central Park and a two-way street north of the park....
Concourse of New York City’s Pennsylvania Station
Pennsylvania Station (New York City)
Pennsylvania Station—commonly known as Penn Station—is the major intercity train station and a major commuter rail hub in New York City. It is one of the busiest rail stations in the world, and a hub for inbound and outbound railroad traffic in New York City. The New York City Subway system also...
, with verses by Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman
Walter "Walt" Whitman was an American poet, essayist and journalist. A humanist, he was a part of the transition between transcendentalism and realism, incorporating both views in his works. Whitman is among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the father of free verse...
and William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams
William Carlos Williams was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general practitioner of medicine, having graduated from the University of Pennsylvania...
. Gioseffi was featured on the Library of Congress Radio Show, The Poet and the Poem http://www.loc.gov/poetry/poetpoem.html sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts
National Endowment for the Arts
The National Endowment for the Arts is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence. It was created by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1965 as an independent agency of the federal government. Its current...
in 1996 and 2006. The radio show includes Poets Laureate of the USA and is widely syndicated throughout the country. She has been interviewed and recited poetry on National Public Radio and the BBC
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation is a British public service broadcaster. Its headquarters is at Broadcasting House in the City of Westminster, London. It is the largest broadcaster in the world, with about 23,000 staff...
in London and Oxford. Gioseffi has presented her work on campuses and in cultural centers throughout the USA and in Europe. Women on War was translated into German and published in Vienna. Gioseffi’s biography appears in Feminists Who Changed America, 1963–1975http://www.press.uillinois.edu/f06/love.html, an encyclopedia from the University of Illinois Press. She is also included in Who's Who in America, The Directory of American Poets & Writershttp://www.pw.org/directory/index.php, and Contemporary Authors, as well as several other sources on the internet.
Career
A peace and social justice activist, Gioseffi began her career as a Civil Rights worker and journalist for WSLA-TV in Selma, AlabamaSelma, Alabama
Selma is a city in and the county seat of Dallas County, Alabama, United States, located on the banks of the Alabama River. The population was 20,512 at the 2000 census....
in 1961 during the era of the Freedom Riders and Sit-in demonstrations for integration of African Americans into American social institutions and schools. Gioseffi was graduated from Montclair State University
Montclair State University
Montclair State University is a public research university located in the Upper Montclair section of Montclair, the Great Notch area of Little Falls, and Clifton, New Jersey. As of October 2009, there were 18,171 total enrolled students: 14,139 undergraduate students and 4,032 graduate students...
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
The Catholic University of America
The Catholic University of America is a private university located in Washington, D.C. in the United States. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by the U.S. Catholic bishops...
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. 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 played in classical roles, Shakespeare, Congreve, Molière, with the National Players’ Touring Repertory Company out of Washington, D.C. (1964–66.) In 1977. 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,http://capa.conncoll.edu/gioseffi.eggs.html published by Boa Editions, Ltd. The book was prefaced with an introduction by the accomplished poet, John Logan.http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/286 Subsequently, Gioseffi edited On Prejudice; A Global Perspective (Anchor/Doubleday: NY, 1993) http://www.gioseffi.com/OnPrgudc.html 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, http://www.gioseffi.com/OnPrgudc.html 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. http://www.pen.org/MemberProfile.php/prmProfileID/19901 Blood Autumn: Autunno di sangue, http://www.Gioseffi.com 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 [www.bordigherapress.org/] of The John D. Calandra Italian American Institute of The City University of New York.http://www.qc.cuny.edu/calandra/. She was a featured speaker at The First International Women's Book Fair in Barceloma, 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 http://www.aiae.net/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=24&Itemid=45.
Early years: biographical details
Daniela Gioseffi was born in 1941 in Orange, New JerseyOrange, New Jersey
The City of Orange is a city and township in Essex County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 30,134...
, the daughter of a Greek-Albanian Italian immigrant father, Daniel Donato Gioseffi, one of the first Italian immigrants to win a Phi Beta Kappa
Phi Beta Kappa Society
The Phi Beta Kappa Society is an academic honor society. Its mission is to "celebrate and advocate excellence in the liberal arts and sciences"; and induct "the most outstanding students of arts and sciences at America’s leading colleges and universities." Founded at The College of William and...
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. http://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
Philip Bosco
-Personal life:Bosco was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the son of Margaret Raymond , a policewoman, and Philip Lupo Bosco, a carnival worker. Bosco went to high school at St. Peter's Preparatory School in Jersey City. He attended the Catholic University of Washington, D.C. Bosco married Nancy...
and the Academy Award winning actress, Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1969, and won an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She had also been nominated for the award for four films before that and has received other recognition for her...
, 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 Washington Post
The Washington Post is Washington, D.C.'s largest newspaper and its oldest still-existing paper, founded in 1877. Located in the capital of the United States, The Post has a particular emphasis on national politics. D.C., Maryland, and Virginia editions are printed for daily circulation...
. 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 USA 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. http://www.vfa.us/mainsection.htm#DANIELA%20GIOSEFFI
After publishing Eggs in the Lake her first collection of poems, 1979, http://www.capa.conncoll.edu/gioseffi.eggs.html, 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 http://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 http://poetshouse.org/progcoming.htm#jun. Since 1979, Gioseffi has been a member of Poets House, The Poetry Society of America, The Academy of American Poets, 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
Galway Kinnell
Galway Kinnell is an American poet. He was Poet Laureate of Vermont from 1989 to 1993. An admitted follower of Walt Whitman, Kinnell rejects the idea of seeking fulfillment by escaping into the imaginary world. His best-loved and most anthologized poems are "St...
, Robert Bly
Robert Bly
Robert Bly is an American poet, author, activist and leader of the Mythopoetic Men's Movement.-Life:Bly was born in Lac qui Parle County, Minnesota, to Jacob and Alice Bly, who were of Norwegian ancestry. Following graduation from high school in 1944, he enlisted in the United States Navy, serving...
, D. Nurkse, Bob Holman
Bob Holman
Bob Holman is a poet and poetry activist in the United States.- Career :After graduating from Columbia University in 1970, Bob Holman founded, with Sara Miles and Susie Timmons, the NYC Poetry Calendar, a free monthly publication with all the readings and poets "on the same page"...
, Milton Kessler, Philip Appleman
Philip Appleman
Philip D. Appleman is an American poet. He is the distinguished Professor Emeritus of the Department of English, Indiana University, Bloomington....
, and Grace Paley
Grace Paley
Grace Paley was an American-Jewish short story writer, poet, and political activist.-Biography:Grace Paley was born in the Bronx to Isaac and Manya Ridnyik Goodside, who anglicized the family name from Gutseit on immigrating from Ukraine. Her father was a doctor. The family spoke Russian and...
.
Published & produced works
- Care of the Body, and The Sea Hag in the Cave of Sleep, 1971, The Cubiculo Theatre, sponsored by The New York State Council for the Arts, Creative Artists Public Service Program, New York City.
- The Sea Hag in the Cave of Sleep, a dramatic monologue for three voices, and Violence and Violins, 1972, Theatre at St. Clements, New York City, sponsored by The Creative Writers Public Service Program, of the New York State Council for the Arts.
- The Brooklyn Bridge Poetry Walk, 1971, sponsored by The Creative Artists Public Service Program, The New York State Council for the Arts,
- The Great American Belly…, a novel 1977 (Doubleday: NY, New English Library, London.)
- Eggs in the Lake; Poems, 1977 (Boa Editions; Rochester, NY.) http://capa.conncoll.edu/gioseffi.eggs.html
- Earth Dancing; Mother Nature’s Oldest Rite, non-fiction treatise 1980 (Stackpole Books, PA.)
- Women on War: International Writings for the Nuclear Age, 1988 (Touchstone/Simon & Schuster: NY.)
- Guide to Northwest Jersey Wildlife: Flora and Fauna, 1994,(Skylands Association, NJ.)
- Word Wounds and Water Flowers; Poems, (Bordighera Press, Purdue University, 1995.) http://capa.conncoll.edu/gioseffi.ww&wf.html
- In Bed with the Exotic Enemy: Stories & Novella, 1995 (Avisson Bks., Greensboro: NC.)
- Going On, Poems, 2000 (Rattapallax Press: New York, NY)
- Women on War: International Writings from Antiquity to the Present, 2003, Feminist Press, http://www.feministpress.org/Book/index.cfm?GCOI=55861100237930 Graduate Center of the City University of New York.)
- Blood Autumn: Autunno di sangue, New & Selected Poems, 2006 http://www.Gioseffi.com (VIA Folios, Bordighera Press, John D. Calandra Institute, Graduate Center, City University of New York.) http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/calandra/
- Emily Dickinson: Lover of Science and Scientist in Dark Days of the Republic, essay, Chelsea Literary Review, Number 81, New York City.
- Wild Nights, Wild Nights: The Story of Emily Dickinson's Master Figure: "Neighbor and Friend and Bridegroom," A Biographical Novel (c) 2010, Plain View Press http://www.plainviewpress.net
- Work in Progress: "Immigrant's Daughter: My Life as an Italian American Woman Writer in New York City, memoir 1967–2011.