About Anthony BuccinoWriter, poet, editor, blogger, web masterAnthony Buccino has written three books of essays based in and around Nutley and Belleville, N.J. He published two books of biographies of the men from his home towns who died while in service. He also published several collections of poetry. He blogs about life in northern New Jersey on Uncle Tonoose and about transit in New Jersey at NJ.Com. Buccino is a contributing writer at NJ Voices. In summer of 2008, he published two collections of poetry. Voices on the Bus are poems written while commuting from northeastern Essex County to Jersey City. One Morning in Jersey City are poems written in and around Jersey City and sitting along the Hudson River, often at lunch time. The Nutley Sons and Belleville Sons honor roll projects are serious writing about a serious subject. With his daughter Andrea, two paperbacks were published based on the research about the men from Nutley and Belleville who died in service to their country. In May 2005, a new memorial to nine men who died in peacetime was dedicated in Nutley - based on the research in Nutley Sons. In November 2005, more than 150 names were added to the Belleville memorial on Union Avenue, after having the blank slate for 50 years awaiting the list of names which was based on the research in Belleville Sons. In mid-2006, six street names in a new residential development City Homes At Essex Park were renamed to honor veterans and four of the Belleville heroes who died while in service. Buccino was named the recipient of the UNICO National 2005 Grand Order Filippo Mazzei William Paca Americanism Award. In 2001, Buccino received the Mille Grazie Award for his work with Italian American One Voice Coalition against negative stereotyping in the media. From 1996 to 1998, he was managing editor at Worrall Community Newspapers, where he oversaw the Nutley Journal, The Belleville Post, The Independent Press of Bloomfield and The Glen Ridge Paper. In 1997, Buccino won an NJ-SPJ award for editorial writing. From 1989 to 1990, he was editor of The Belleville Times. In the 1970s Buccino wrote reviews and essays for area newspapers including The Belleville Times and The Independent Press of Bloomfield. Buccino's most recent essay collection is Rambling Round - Inside and Outside at the Same Time. He published two other collections of essays and stories: A Father's Place, An Eclectic Collection, in 1991, and Sister Dressed Me Funny, in 1996. A volume of poetry, Days You Knew Me, was published in 1976. His recent collections include One Morning In Jersey City, a collection of poems written along the shores of the Hudson River in Jersey City. He continues work on Sixteen Inches on Center, a collection of poems about growing up in Belleville and Nutley, his dad, the carpenter, and the family's homing pigeons. More than one dozen poems from this collection have been or are scheduled for publication. Another collection in-progress, Yountakah Country, tells in verse some of the history of Nutley from Annie Oakley and the first settlers to people on the street today. American Boy is a collection-in-progress of working class verse about youth and aging. His poems have been or will be published in Celebrating William Carlos Williams and The Poetry of Place: North Jersey in Poetry; Rattlesnake Review; Raving Dove; CHEST, the Journal of the American College of Chest Physicians; The Poem Factory; The Idiom; MEWS; VIA Voices in Italian Americana; The Paterson Literary Review and Edison Literary Review. Buccino has been published in New Jersey Monthly, the Wall Street Journal, the Passaic Herald News, New Jersey Federated Sportsmen, Italian Tribune, Behind The Lines and other publications. He served as editor at New Jersey Motor Truck Association, a state trade association, Beauty & Barber Supply Institute, a national trade association, and of Modern Food Service Magazine, a regional magazine.
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