Star Studded Brooklyn Book Festival Announced for September 12

Diane Ravitch is not the only one. American Book Award winning author of 14 prize winning books of prose and poetry, including ON PREJUDICE; A GLOBAL PERSPECTIVE, (Anchor/Doubleday) author of a book used all over the world to teach tolerance through literary art, a novelist and a poet and educator, Daniela Gioseffi, is one of the most widely published authors of varied books and genres in Brooklyn, and she is not featured at the fair. Even though she taught with the Poets-in-the-Schools NY State Council for the Arts funded program for many years in the borough as a poet-in-residence in pubic scholls, reaching many Brooklyn students to foster a love of literature. She won a Partner in Education Award from The NY Board of Ed. She taught at Brooklyn College, St. Francis College, Pace U. and Long Island U. and she has a new book out this year WILD NIGHTS, WILD NIGHTS, The STORY OF EMILY DICKINSON’S MASTER with a NON-fiction afterword that solves the greatest mystery in American literature, who the Master Figure of the iconic poet’s letters and poems was– a book praised by America’s top writers, ie. Grace Paley, New York State Award winning author; Robert Hass, former Poet Laureate of the USA; Galway Kinnell, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning author; and Larry McMurtry, Pulitzer and National Book Award winner. Daniela hosted literary series for Brooklyn funded by POETS & WRITERS, Inc., and created the FIRST BROOKLYN BRIDGE POETRY WALK, with a grant award from the NY State Council for the Arts in 1972, as well as CELEBRATING LITERARY BROOKLYN at the Brooklyn Heights Library, and The Walt Whitman Hart Crane Literary Series at the BROOKLYN HISTORICAL SOCIETY, which featured top authors of Brooklyn, and she is not featured either at the Festival, either, even though she has poems on Marty Markowitz Boro Prez. website. It seems a prophet is without honor in his/her own country when it comes to the Brooklyn Book Festival, because Daniela has been featured at the Miami National Book Fair, the Barcelona International Book Fair, on NPR and the BBC at Oxford, on THE POET AND THE POEM, Library of Congress Radio Show sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts, and she’s lived in Brooklyn Heights for 45 years, often featured in local papers through the years. Her last new book BLOOD AUTUMN, which won a John Ciardi Award for Lifetime Achievement in Poetry and was also not featured at the Brooklyn Book Festival. Daniela has donated hours of labor to Brooklyn’s literary life, and she has given thousands of dollars worth of books to the Brooklyn Public Library. She has served literature in the Borough for many years and in more ways than one can tell here, so go figure what “Star Studded” means? Go figure why some Brooklyn authors are overlooked by the festival every year. Daniela is still vitally alive and 70 years old, and has many friends in Brooklyn who would come to hear her, but The Brooklyn Book Festival doesn’t feature her. Many can’t figure out why it’s allowed to happen.

Don’t know what a “globalist bent” means to you “Sheeple-Herder,” above, but to be humane, caring, and teach tolerance through literature, to create empathy for other’s lives, is a good thing, and that is what Daniela Gioseffi’s writing does. She’s a humane and meaningful writer, far more than many featured at The Brooklyn Book Festival, and she’s done much to further reading of great literature in Brooklyn, for many many years, and that is a GOOD thing. Plus, her books are fascinating, too.

Dear sheep: this is wrong because…?

No Mo Williams this year? Kids will be distraught.

Ms. Josephs, you’ve actually hit on the one word that drives people like Sheepie-herder to distraction…”teaching”. By which I mean, the opposite of propagandizing, proselytizing, brain-washing etc. Folks like SH may gather wool all day, but it doesn’t necessarily result in an afghan.

That’s exactly why I used it AEB. But you knew that.