Guest: Salvatore Buttaci

Today Angelica welcomes Salvatore Buttaci to the show. Salvatore has been writing since childhood. His first published work was an article entitled "Presidential Timber" that appeared in the Sunday New York News when he was fifteen. In 1981, he earned an M.B.A. in marketing from Rutgers Graduate School of Management. For twelve years he was a marketing executive for a direct marketing firm in New York City. Before retiring in June 2007, he taught English on both middle school and college levels in New Jersey for nearly thirty years. He was the Editor of New Worlds Unlimited, an annual poetry anthology that showcased the poems of aspiring and professional poets from here and abroad. Many of his own poems, short stories, letters, and articles have been published widely. Buttaci has been published in The New York Times. Newsday, The Writer, Poet Magazine, Cat Fancy, Cats Magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Funny Paper, Taj Mahal Review, Accenti and many other publications here and overseas. He was also editor of Poetidings, the newsletter of the New Jersey Poetry Society, Inc. of which he is a member. He has given many writing workshops and has often been a featured poet at readings. Buttaci is the author of several books: Flashing My Shorts (All Things That Matter Press and available at Amazon.com) A Family of Sicilians: Stories and Poems (available at Lulu.com) A Dusting of Star Fall: Love Poems (Cyber-wit Publications, available from the author) 200 Shorts (soon to be released by All Things That Matter Press) His poetry chapbooks: Greatest Hits: 1970-2000 (published in 2001 by Pudding House Publications) Boy on a Swing (published in 2009 by Big Table Publishing Co.) What I Learned from the Spaniard (published in 2011 by Middle Island Press)