From Under the rose: a confession / Flavia Alaya
"Introduction to Rocchietti's Lorenzo and Oonalaska"
Selections, Lorenzo and Oonalaska / Carol Bonomo Albright and Elvira Di Fabio
"Sinatra's 'Associations' with the mob" / George Anastasia
"Holy cards," from Taking it home: stories from the neighborhood / Tony Ardizzone
From Wish you well / David Baldacci
"Buried Alive by Language," from Chiaroscuro: essays of identity
"Classic and good," from More Italian hours and other stories / Helen Barolini.
"My Grandmother, a chicken, and death," from Too much of a good thing is wonderful / Regina Barreca
"My life in funeral parlors," from Joy Shtick: or What is the existential vacuum and does it come with attachments? / Joy Behar
From Claiming a tradition: Italian American women writers / Mary Jo Bona
From Miss Giardino / Dorothy Bryant
"Story of my weight," from Pray for yourself and other stories / Anne Calcagno
"Careless love: how women get to hell" / Phyllis Capello
From "Macaronis," from Paper napkins / Nancy Caronia
"Grandmother," from Poems: new and selected / Grace Cavalieri
From A bridge of leaves / Diana Cavallo
"Ossi Dei Morti," from Terra Firma
"Small acts," from Terra Firma / Thomas Centolella
"True or false," from The birds of Pompeii
"Useless knowledge," from The birds of Pompeii
"The evil eye," from The collected poems of John Ciardi
"In place of a curse," from The collected poems of John Ciardi
"On flunking a nice boy out of school," from The collected poems of John Ciardi
"Statement," from The collected poems of John Ciardi / John Ciardi.
"Lifelines," from Mother rocket / Rita Ciresi
"Ellis Island" / Robert Corrente
"Youthful religious experiences," from Herald of the Autochthonic Spirit / Gregory Corso
From Family honor: an American life / George Cuomo
"The first night of the wake" / Joseph Cuomo
From Underworld / Don DeLillo
From Leaven of the pharisees: the dark side of Italian-American life / Lina Del Tinto Demarsky
"I study Italian," from First pressing
"I stash treasures," from Italian notebook / Mary Russo Demetrick
From Paper fish / Tina De Rosa
From Breathless / Louise DeSalvo
From "Ars Longa, Vita brevis?" / Carole DeSanti
From Tender warriors / Rachel Guido DeVries.
From Christ in concrete / Pietro Di Donato
"The depot," from Shadows burning
"Sabbioneta to Parma," from The dog star / W.S. Di Piero
From Recollections of my life as a woman / Diane Di Parma
From The brotherhood of the grape
"Hail Mary," from Dago Red
From Wait until spring, Bandini / John Fante
"The old Italians dying," from These are my rivers / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
From The family of Max Desir / Robert Ferro
From a perfect time for butterflies / Camille Lavieri Forman
From Tree of dark reflection / Rocco Fumento
From Blood of my blood: the dilemma of the Italian-Americans / Richard Gambino
From The Italian-American writer: an essay and an annotated checklist / Fred Gardaphe
"The tidal wave," from Kissing the bread: new and selected poems, 1969-1999
"Mafioso," from Kissing the bread
"Tailors," from Kissing the bread / Sandra M. Gilbert
"Opening the door: 19th Street, Paterson," from Things my mother told me
"Secrets," from Things my mother told me / Maria Mazziotti Gillan.
"Cleared away," from The gods of winter
"Money," from The gods of winter
"Planting a sequoia," from The gods of winter / Dana Gioia
"For Grandma Lucia La Rosa, 'Light the rose,'" from Word wounds and water flowers
"American sonnets for my father," from Word wounds and water flowers
"Woman with tongue sculpted in cheek," from Eggs in the lake / Daniela Gioseffi
"Anniversary I," from The collected poems of Arturo Giovannitti / Arturo Giovannitti
"Litania for my mother's hands" / Edvige Giunta
From "MANAYUNK: growing up in Philadelphia during and after the war" / John Glavin
"Godfather II: of families and families," from Off Center
From An accidental autobiography / Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
"Who will marry you now?" / Josephine Gattuso Hendin
"The discourse of un' Propria Paparone" / Joanna Clapps Herman
From The blackboard jungle
From "The kiss" / Evan Hunter
From Ulysses in traction / Albert Innaurato
"After victory" / Marisa Labozzetta.
"Food and fatalism" / Wally Lamb
From The grand Gennaro / Garibaldi M. Lapolla
"Wear it in good health," from The boys of Bensonhurst
"First cousins," from Teaching angels to fly / Salvatore La Puma
From "Words," from Were you always an Italian?
Ancestors and other icons of Italian America / Maria Laurino
From Leading with my chin / Jay Leno, with Bill Zehme
From "Sitdown at the Heartland Hotel," from Lucchesi and the whale / Frank Lentricchia
From La Storia: five centuries of the Italian American experience / Jerre Mangione and Ben Morreale
"Your children are your children, but your wife is just a good cigar" / Mary Ann Mannino
"Duet," from The Great wheel
"Show & tell," from Salvage operations
"The old men are dying," from Salvage operations / Paul Mariani
"The lion's head," from The art lover
"Friend," from The art lover / Carole Maso
From "The virgin's nose" (or Picking up a piece of the Pieta), from The virgin knows / Christine Palamidessi Moore.
From The loss of the miraculous / Ben Morreale
From We ride a white donkey
From Viva Madison Avenue! / George Panetta
From Dances with Luigi: a grandson's determined quest to comprehend Italy and the Italians / Paul Paolicelli
"The Shylock's wedding," from Italian stories / Joseph Papaleo
"Grandmother in heaven," from Town life
"1913," from Anthracite Country
"The miner's wake," from Anthracite Country
"Ida Parini (1890-1976)," from House of days
From The apprentice lover / Jay Parini
"Someday I will read 'Dover beach,'" from Ciao, baby
"Perfect love," from Daughters for sale / Gianna Patriarca
From "The movies," from Growing up Sicilian and female / Sadie Penzato
"Canticle from the book of Bob"
"Lost innocence of the potato givers," from The body mutinies
"Long time too long," from The oldest map with the name America: new and selected poems / Lucia Perillo
From The fortunate pilgrim / Mario Puzo
"Dedicated to an old friend whose kindness I shall never forget" / Rose Quiello.
From Benedetta in Guysterland: a liquid novel / Giose Rimanelli
From Everything and a kite / Ray Romano
From The quick / Agnes Rossi
"Video blues," from A kiss in space: poems / Mary Jo Salter
From "Ravioli and rage" / Mary Saracino
From Huddle fever: living in the Immigrant City / Jeanne Schinto
"How to marry an Italian-American man" / Chris Mellie Sherman
"The veteran," from The Dance at St. Gabriel's / Felix Stefanile
From Unto the sons / Gay Talese
From Like lesser gods / Mari Tomasi
"Failed fathers," from The shifting web / Lewis Turco
"The widows," from Conversations with Johnny
"Song of the Castrato," from Conversation with Johnny / Anthony Valerio
From Misfits and remnants / L.D. Ventura and S. Shevitch
From Astoria / Robert Viscusi
From A cup of the sun / Octavia Waldo.