Daniela Gioseffi

Daniela Gioseffi is an American Book Award winning author of 18 books from major NYC and various University Presses. Daniela has been on the poetry scene reading thousands of times across the country for 60 years. She has also read with Allen Ginsberg and George Plimton at the Miami National Book Fair and in Barcelona and Venice, as well as across the UK at an International Book Fairs, as well as on National Television and On National Public Radio. She has taught socially conscious poetry workshops at Poets House, NYC, and Creative Writing workshops for Poets-in-the-Schools, Inc., far and wide in NY/NJ. Daniela has given readings at NJ State Colleges as well as NY State Universities. Daniela has published 6 prize winning books of poetry, the first was Eggs in the Lake 1977 BOA Editions, Ltd. praised by Noa Balakian Reviewer for The NYTimes, and Galway Kinnell, Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Her most recent is Stardust Lives in US is from CUNY, VIA Folios, 2025 and has received good reviews on Amazon as well as in literary magazines. She has also published three novels and 3 anthologies from major presses. Daniela currently facilitates a poetry workshop at Winchester Gardens, Elmwood NJ, and though born and educated in NJ, she lived in NYC amidst eminent authors for 50 years. Daniela is 85 years old and still publishing since her debut publications with The Paris Review, NY Magazine, Chelsea, MS. magazine and other journals at age 25 years. She was the Valedictorian of Passaic Valley High, NJ High School and graduated from Montclair State University in 1963 to go on to attain a scholarship in World Drama and tour in Shakespearean plays with the National Repertory Company of Wash. D.C. Daniela at 85 is still writing and publishing poetry.

Statue of Liberty (POEM)

We want to see the Statue of Liberty giggling.

We want to see nothing but asses and elbows

            and orgasmic smiles

            from the East to the West of us!

We want to see that old statue put down her heavy book,

            lift up her skirts,

            and dance and sing with us!

We want liberty and justice to breathe in us!