Joseph Bathanti

Entering, through the mediumof memoria, achieves the parableof Proust: the aromaof Italianata, opera of olfactory,blood–gnosis spinning me backover these…

There is a moment Sunday,an inexplicable instant of clarityand purpose the dying often summon,when my mother extends a hand through the mist,lifts off her…

So many times I've witnessed thisthat familiarity is not the wordto conjure my mother's taking up of the breast-shaped purple blackness, her paringknife…

Part OneThe Sensoria Festival at Central Piedmont Community College began as the CPCC Literary Festival some 20 years ago, hosting literary giants and up…