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By Roseanne Montillo, ISDA Contributor

Sergeant Petrosino bundled deeper into his coat as he stared at the body on the ground. He looked again at the dead man. He had been found almost three hours earlier, folded in two and stuffed inside a wooden barrel normally used for food.

Petrosino was handed a crucifix removed from the dead man’s neck, his boss, Inspector George W. McClosky, telling him that neither he nor any of the other officers had figured out what to make of the necklace. It was a strange crucifix, McClosky had concluded, the insignia within it – I.N.R.I. stumping them.

Petrosino felt the heavy gold in his hands and traced the letters with his thumb, knowing what they meant: I.N.R.I. – Iesus Nazarenus Rix Iudacorum, Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews, he told McClosky. The inspector nodded, having taken Petrosino only seconds to figure it out. The dead man’s ears were also pierced by tiny round earrings, Petrosino saw; he sported a thick mustache speckled with gray hairs and had a scar on his left check shaped like the letter v. He wore good clothes, the fa

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By Joe Grano*

One hundred years ago on March 12, 1909, Lt. Joseph Petrosino, a N.Y.C. police officer and organized crime fighter was assasinated in Palermo, Sicily.

A larger-than-life figure of great physical courage, Joseph Petrosino was much more than the tough cop, which he certainly was. He was a brilliant innovator and strategist in America’s first war on organized crime in N.Y. He was also, in the words of his friend Teddy Roosevelt, a “great man, a good man.”

Petrosino was born in Padula, a small town near Salerno on Aug. 30, 1860. His father, a tailor, moved the family to the U.S. in 1873. His mother died of small-pox, which Petrosino also contracted. In 1878, he became a citizen.

Because of a need for Italian police officers to work in the burgeoning Italian communities, Petrosino was accepted into the police force, becoming one of its first Italian officers. He was a fearless cop. On one occasion, according to a New York Times report, he saved the life of an African-American man being attacked by three assailants in a street fight. He interve

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Kiki Petrosino

American poet (born 1979)

Kiki Petrosino (born 1979) is an American poet and professor of poetry. She currently teaches at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Early life and education

Petrosino was born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland.^[1] After spending two years in Switzerland teaching Italian and English in a private school,^[2] she earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Virginia (2001), a Master of Arts in humanities degree from the University of Chicago (2004), and a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop (2006).^[3]

Career

Petrosino previously taught at the University of Louisville in Louisville, Kentucky, and Spalding University, also in Louisville.

Her collection of poetry Witch Wife was cited by The New York Times as one of the best works of poetry of 2017.^[4] Her work has earned her fellowships such as the Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council^[5] and the 2019 Fellowship in Creative Writing from the