MockingHeart Review contributor, Michelle Messina Reale, was interviewed for LA VOCE di New York on her work with and poetic representation of refugees in Sicily. In March 2018, poems from this endeavor will be published as a book, “Confini,” by Červená Barva Press. Read the article at the link below.
by George De Stefano
Who are the refugees? Why do they keep coming? Michelle Messina Reale on the lives of people in Sicilian refugee camps
Michelle Reale is an Associate Professor at Arcadia University. She is the author of several collections of poetry. She blogs about her ethnography among African refugees in Sicily at http://www. sempresicilia.wordpress.com
You can read her contributions to MHR here:
https://mockingheartreview.com/…/volume-1-is…/michelle-reale