Joseph Bathanti, poet laureate of North Carolina (2012-2014) and professor of Creative Writing at Appalachian State University, presents 13 prodigious essays about culture, religion, the Vietnam War,
In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, Joseph Bathanti offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his childhood to the present, weaving through the Itali
East Liberty is a poetic, passionate coming-of-age novel spanning 1955 to 1963, set in an Italian-American neighborhood in Pittsburgh. Roberto (Bobby) Renzo, the novel's fatherless narrator and main c
