"Potpourri" - Joe's New Book Now Available on Amazon
Peppe (Joe) Polacco
Author
Biochemist, Professor Emeritus, World Traveler, and Native Brooklynite
TESTIMONIALS
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"Joe communicates with vast humor and the elegance of his sentences. His writing deserves our attention and admiration. Joe Polacco is a dynamo, it's always something unexpected."
WALTER BARGEN MISSOURI POET
LAUREATE
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"Joe writes from the heart, invoking memories of his Brooklyn childhood and later life as a college professor in a way that brings the reader into his world."
JOEL MIGDAL
BROOKLYN-BORN CLASSICAL MUSICIAN
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Professor Polacco takes on a left brain/right brain excursion into science, memoirs, poetry, fiction, spors, travel, world cultures politics, Delta Blues, and even Louis Prima singing "My Googootza Bella."
JOE COLACINO, PHD.
DEVELOPER OF
ANTIVIRALS
BIO
Joseph C. ( Joe) Polacco is currently Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry at the University of Missouri in Columbia MO.
He was born in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn NY and was educated in New York City public schools, followed by a BS in Biochemistry at Cornell (1966) and a PhD in Biochemistry and Genetics at Duke (1971).
Joe combined foreign experience and Biochemisty at the Universidad del Valle (Cali, Colombia, 1972-1973); Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (1999-2000); Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina (Aug-
Dec 2005); Universidade Federal de Rio Grande do Sul, Brasil (2008-2010), and Visiting Professor, Escola Superior de Agricultura, Universidade Federal de São Paulo (Piracicaba) (2012).
Joe was recognized with awards in teaching, and in foreign involvement including two Fulbright
Fellowships, to Spain and Argentina. He has an extensive scientific publication record and, since retiring from active science research, Joe has authored five non-science-themed books, including Peppe ( Joe) Polacco’s Potpourri: Prose-Poetry Paired Peripatetic Perspectives (2026).
MEDIA
Paul Pepper interview’s Joe on new novel, “Giovanni.” Giovanni tells the story of Joe’s great-grandfather making the journey from Italy to America and his ascension to patriarchy in a society rife with racism and injustice.
Paul Pepper interviews Joe on his first book: Vina, A Brooklyn Memoir. Joe tells us how this tribute to his Italian mother came to be, and what he learned about her after her death.
VOX MAGAZINE Interview
Joe Polacco is a biochemist, published poet in both English and Spanish, and the author of a memoir. So much for left or right brain.
CONTACT
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