University of Iowa Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of JoAnn Castagna
Body Copy JoAnn Elisabeth Castagna, dear wife of Dan Campion, died at her home in Iowa City on December 5 of breast cancer. JoAnn was born April 21, 1951, in New London, CT, to Gina (née Palmisano) and Dr. Joseph Peter Castagna. In 1975 she moved to Chicago, where she worked in the municipal bond business to support Poetry &, the poetry magazine and newsletter she founded and published monthly from July 1976 to July 1978, a forum that embraced diversity, encouraged many young writers,...