May 20, 2024 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Works
We are excited to announce this year’s winners of the Enza and Paola Quargnali Memorial Scholarship! JoRene Beyers – Poetry Workshop: Melissa Young and Emily Ransdell – The Art of Discovery Comments from the Committee: “[…] her love...
Nov 6, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Works
The Rhythm of Things The cypress trees in Italy are slow metronomes keeping time with the wind—reaching for the hand of a new lover, always retreating back to proper posture. Backward steps. Repeat. Two weeks—travelers tattooed by different guns, with the...
Nov 6, 2019 | La Romita News, Scholarships, Works
New Perfume I can feel the pinch of the stiletto patent leather black shining, bouncing the light from streetlamps into shapes— each step melting. Sultry. Cigarette smoke sexy, nobody minds the plume. The tapping of heels on dark, squared sidewalks— Rome at...
