Saturday, Nov 3rd, 2pm at ETG Book Cafe, 208 Bay St, SINY 10301 (between Victory Blvd & Hannah St). Illustration by Julie Bentsen. Copyright 2018. Used with permission of the artist. All rights reserved.

Island poet Thomas Focalaro joins Staten Island OutLOUD for this special event.

“The Wrong Grave” is a short story that is really about the writer’s process, how we dig and dig until we find the right spirit. In this workshop, we will all engage in the conversation of the writer’s process and craft. Using actually lines from the short story as prompts, we will, as a group, talk about our process’ and expand on our own.

Thomas Fucaloro is the author of two books of poetry published by Three Rooms Press, most recently It Starts from the Belly and Blooms, which received rave reviews.

The winner of a performance grant from the Staten Island Council of the Arts and the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, he has been on six national slam teams. He holds an MFA in creative writing from the New School and is a co-founding editor of Great Weather for Media and NYSAI press. He is an adjunct professor at Wagner College where he teaches world lit and advanced creative writing. He is a writing coordinator at the Harlem Children’s Zone and lives on Staten Island.