Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
June 21, 2011
Renée
Alberts listens to
rivers and shortwave radio to create poetry, collage, sound and
photography. Her poetry collection, No Water, came out in 2009, and her
work has appeared in The New Yinzer, Encyclopedia Destructica, Pittsburgh
City Paper and Subtletea. She has given dozens of readings,
including on WYEP’s Prosody and as a 2001 and 2004 member of the Steel
City Slam Team. She organizes numerous poetry and music events, including
the CLP Sunday Poetry & Reading Series, for which she edited Natural
Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry and Reading Series
Anthology. She posts writing and art at www.animalprayer.com
Michael Simms is the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of
Autumn House Press, a nonprofit publisher of poetry books. He is the
author of four collections of poems – The Happiness of Animals, Migration,
Notes on Continuing Light, and The Fire-eater -- as well as the co-author
(with Jack Myers) of The Longman Dictionary and Handbook of Poetry.
Simms presently teaches publishing in the Master of Fine Arts Program at Chatham University;
he lives in Pittsburgh
with his wife Eva and their two children.
Michael
Wurster, the author
of The British Detective (Main
Street Rag, 2009), was born in Moline, Illinois, and has lived in Iowa,
Virginia and Pennsylvania. He is a founding member
of Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange and for many years taught at Pittsburgh Center
for the Arts School. His two previous poetry
collections are The Cruelty of the Desert (Cottage Wordsmiths, 1989) and
The Snake Charmer's Daughter (ELEMENOPE, 2000). He is co-editor, with
Judith R. Robinson, of the anthology Along These Rivers: Poetry &
Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant Press, 2008). In 1996, Wurster was an
inaugural recipient of a Pittsburgh Magazine Harry Schwalb Excellence in the
Arts Award for his contributions to poetry and the community.
Jimmy Cvetic
reads A Piece of Blue Sky
Jimmy Cvetic
reads Yanko the Ditchdigger
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