Tuesday, August 8, 2023

August 8, 2023 (macross, Jakiela, Newman, Sargeson & Rudolph)


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Seated L-R: Cedric Rudolph, Joan Bauer & Kristofer Collins

Standing L-R: miss macross, Dave Newman & Lori Jakiela

Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.

Kristofer Collins is the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-curator of The Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book The River Is Another Kind of Prayer: New & Selected Poems was published in 2020 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.blogspot.com/. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife, son and daughter.

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miss macross is a Pittsburgh-based lunar witch who enjoys watching mecha anime and taking naps. Her most recent chapbook, Late Tight in a Night Space, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2022. She is the Publishing Director for Write Pittsburgh and inconsistently blogs at missmacross.com. Find her on Twitter @missmacross.

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Cedric Rudolph is a writer and educator living in Pittsburgh, PA. During his time at Chatham University—where he earned his writing MFA—he taught at Allegheny County Jail. He continues to teach inside and outside of traditional classrooms. From 2021-2023, he served as Diverse Faculty Fellow Instructor at the Community College of Allegheny County. This fall he will teach writing at the University of Pittsburgh. His poems are published in Santa Fe Literary Review, The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook and The Coal Hill Review.

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Kayla Sargeson is the author of the full-length collection First Red (Main Street Rag, 2016) and the chapbooks Head on a Shelf, BLAZE, and Mini Love Gun, all from Main Street Rag. Her poems appear or are forthcoming in 5 AM, Cimarron Review, and South Dakota Review. With Lisa Alexander, she co-curates the Laser Cat reading series. Sargeson lives in Pittsburgh where she teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and Carlow University and served as Interim Director of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops. 

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Lori Jakiela is the author of seven books, most recently a hybrid memoir, They Write Your Name on a Grain of Rice: On Cancer, Love, and Living Even So (Atticus Books, Spring 2023), and a poetry collection, How Do You Like It Now Gentlemen? (2021, Brickhouse Books), winner of the 2021 Wicked Woman Poetry Prize. Her book, Belief Is Its Own Kind of Truth Maybe, received the Saroyan Prize for International Literature from Stanford University. She writes for Pittsburgh Magazine and directs the undergraduate writing program at The University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg, where she is a professor of English.

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Dave Newman is the author of seven books, including The Slaughterhouse Poems, named one of the best books of the year by L Magazine, and The Same Dead Songs: a memoir of working-class addictions (J.New Books / Imperfect Union, 2023). He lives in Trafford, PA, the last town in the Electric Valley.

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Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season (Turning Point), is now available.

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Tuesday, July 25, 2023

July 25, 2023 (Barnett, Buccilli, Stroud & Williams-Devereux)

 

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Seated L-R: Christine Stroud, Kristofer Collins & Sarah Williams-Devereux

Standing L-R: Daniela Buccilli, Cameron Barnett & Joan Bauer

Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.

Kristofer Collins is the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-curator of The Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book The River Is Another Kind of Prayer: New & Selected Poems was published in 2020 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.blogspot.com/. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife, son and daughter.

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Sarah Williams-Devereux is the author of Of a Mother (Finishing Line Press, chapbook, forthcoming, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in multiple venues, including journals [F(r)ictionLog, Snapdragon], anthologies [Show Us Your Papers (Main Street Rag, 2020), Is It Hot in Here Or Is It Just Me? Women Over Forty Write on Aging (Social Justice Anthologies, 2019)], radio [Prosody, WESA-FM], and public art [Bridging the Gap/Analog Scroll, Westmoreland Museum of American Art]. She teaches poetry for the Madwomen in the Attic workshops at Carlow University. She is an apprentice training instructor for Amherst Writers & Artists writing group leadership and received her MA in teaching writing from Johns Hopkins University.

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Christine Stroud is a poet living in Pittsburgh, PA, and is the editor in chief of Autumn House Press. Her chapbook, The Buried Return, was released by Finishing Line Press in March of 2014, and her second chapbook, Sister Suite, was released from Disorder Press in 2017. Stroud’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hobart, the Ninth Letter online, The Paterson Literary Review, Cimarron Review, The Laurel Review, and many others as well as several anthologies.

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Daniela Buccilli’s poetry can be found in Paterson Review, Northern Appalachian Review, Cimarron Review, and Voices in the Attic anthology. Her chapbook is What it Takes to Carry and she has co-edited Show Us Your Papers, a Poetry Anthology. She teaches at a local high school and has earned an MFA in poetry from Carlow University and one in fiction at the University of Pittsburgh. She serves her union as their secretary.

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Cameron Barnett is a Pittsburgh poet, teacher, and the Emerging Black Writer in Residence at Chatham University. He’s the author of The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water and Murmur, forthcoming from Autumn House Press. His work explores the complexity of relationships, race, and place for Black people in America, more of which can be found at cameronbarnett.net.

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Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season (Turning Point), is now available.

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Tuesday, July 11, 2023

July 11, 2023 (Alderman, Ussia & Solarczyk)

 

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Seated L-R: Matt Ussia & Bart Solarczyk
Standing L-R: Chandra Alderman, Scott Silsbe & Joan Bauer


Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.


Scott Silsbe was born in Detroit. He now lives in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. His poems and prose have appeared in numerous periodicals and have been collected in four books: Unattended Fire, The River Underneath the City, Muskrat Friday Dinner, and Meet Me Where We Survive. He is also an assistant editor at Low Ghost Press.

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Chandra Alderman lives in northeast Ohio where she writes mostly letters and sometimes poetry. She is often seen out in the wild with a camera, spying on nature, everyday life, and writers. Her photography has appeared on chapbooks published by Nightballet Press and Crisis Chronicles Press, and also online at Thirteen Myna Birds, The Octopus Review, and The City Poetry. Her words have appeared in Trailer Park Quarterly. More than all of this she is trying to compose the perfect bowl of soup.
 
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Matthew Ussia is director of Duquesne University’s First Year Writing Program in spite of the fact that he got a C- in freshman writing and was rejected from Duquesne’s MA program. He is also an editor, podcaster, post-doom thereminist, softcore punk, postpunk backup singer, social media burnout, and sentient organic matter. His first book, The Red Glass Cat, was published by Alien Buddha Press in 2021. His writings have appeared in Mister Rogers and Philosophy, Future Humans in Fiction and Film, North of Oxford, Trailer Park Quarterly, Anti-Heroin Chic, and The Open Mic of the Air Podcast among others.
Bart Solarczyk is a lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, PA. Over the past forty years his poems have been published in print & online in a variety of magazines, journals, newspapers & anthologies. He is the author of eleven chapbooks & three full-length collections of poetry including his most recent book Carried Where We Go available from Redhawk Publications.
 
Kevin Finn is a poet, musician, visual artist and martial artist from Pittsburgh, PA. His poetry has been widely published in journals and anthologies, and his latest collection is entitled, Consequence of Dream (Six Gallery Press, 2022).

Kevin was, unfortunately, unable to participate in this reading.

Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season (Turning Point), is now available.

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Tuesday, June 27, 2023

June 27, 2023 (Bogen, Vollmer & Schneider)

 

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Seated L-R: Kristofer Collins & Joan Bauer
Standing L-R: Deb Bogen, Mike Schneider & Judy Vollmer
 
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Kristofer Collins is the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-curator of The Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book The River Is Another Kind of Prayer: New & Selected Poems was published in 2020 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.blogspot.com/. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife, son and daughter.

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Deborah Bogen’s books of poems are Speak Now This Charm (Jacar Press, 2022), In Case of Sudden Free Fall (Jacar Press), Let Me Open You a Swan (Elixir Press), Landscape With Silos (Texas Review Press), and Living By The Children’s Cemetery (Byline Press). She lives in Pittsburgh where she balances the poet’s life with grassroots political responsibility and music.

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Judith Vollmer’s sixth book of poetry, The Sound Boat: New and Selected Poems, is the Four Lakes Prize selection for 2022 from the University of Wisconsin Press. Other awards include an NEA poetry fellowship, the Brittingham and the Cleveland State University Press prizes, and finalist honors for the Paterson Prize. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Plume, The Georgia Review, Agni, Poetry International, The Women’s Review of Books, and elsewhere.

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Mike Schneider began writing during the Vietnam War when, while serving at an air force base in Ohio, he published an anti-war “underground” newspaper. He has practiced law, worked as a science writer, won awards for magazine writing, and written book reviews and essays on culture for several publications. Three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, his poems appear in literary journals, anthologies and three chapbooks. He received the 2012 Editors Award from The Florida Review and the 2016 Robert Phillips Prize from Texas Review Press. The Hungry Hill Writing Group in West Cork, Ireland awarded Schneider second prize in its Poets Meet Politics 2022 International Open. His full-length collection Spring Mills is forthcoming in early 2023.

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Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, including Escape Envy (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2021), I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, and The Prisoners. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. His seventh collection, Tell Us How to Live, is forthcoming in 2024 from Fernwood Press.

Ace was, unfortunately, unable to participate in this reading.

Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season, is forthcoming from Turning Point in 2023.

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Tuesday, June 13, 2023

June 13, 2023 (Corso, Das, Dil & Edelman)

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Seated L-R: Tuhin Das & Kristofer Collins
Standing L-R: Joan Bauer, Barbara Edelman, Shaheen Dil & Paola Corso
 
Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.

Kristofer Collins is the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-curator of The Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book The River Is Another Kind of Prayer: New & Selected Poems was published in 2020 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.blogspot.com/. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife, son and daughter.

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Paola Corso’s fiction and poetry books are set in her native Pittsburgh where her Italian immigrant family members were steelworkers. Her books include The Laundress Catches Her Breath, winner of the Tillie Olsen Award in Creative Writing and Once I Was Told the Air Was Not for Breathing, a Triangle Fire Memorial Association Awardee. Her latest is Vertical Bridges: Poems and Photographs of City Steps. She is co-founder of Steppin Stanzas, a grant-awarded poetry and performance project celebrating Pittsburgh public stairways. She is proud to be included on Pennsylvania Center for the Book’s Literary Map. www.paolacorso.com.

Tuhin Das is a Bangladeshi poet. In 2016, his exile to the United States was spurred by threats of violence by Al Qaeda-linked extremist groups intent on limiting freedom of expression. He found refuge in Pittsburgh when Carnegie Mellon University invited him as a visiting scholar and, later, when City of Asylum invited him to join their writer sanctuary program. He was granted political asylum in 2021. In 2022, Exile Poems: In the Labyrinth of Homesickness, his US poetry debut was published by Bridge & Tunnel Books.

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Shaheen Dil was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, but has led a peripatetic life. She has spent time in many parts of the United States and traveled throughout the world. Shaheen has worked in both Academia and Business, but poetry has always been her avocation. She currently resides in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Manhattan, New York. She is a member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange Workshop. Her poems have appeared in numerous journals, including, among others, The Critical Quarterly, Four Quarters, The Journal of South Asian Literature, and The Pittsburgh Quarterly. Her work has appeared in two anthologies: Poetry Chain: An Anthology of New Verse and Waiting for you to Speak. Shaheen’s first book of poetry, Acts of Deference, was published recently by Fakel Publishing House in Sofia, Bulgaria.

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Barbara Edelman’s poetry collections include All the Hanging Wrenches and Dream of the Gone-From City (both from Carnegie Mellon University Press) and the chapbooks Exposure (Finishing Line) and A Girl in Water (Parallel Press). Her poems and short prose have appeared in Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, Raleigh Review, Rattle, and Spillway, among other journals, and in several anthologies. She’s a teaching professor emerita and current part time instructor of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season, is forthcoming from Turning Point in 2023.

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