Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
June 28, 2011
Sankar Roy, originally from India,
is a poet, translator, activist and multimedia artist living near Pittsburgh, PA.
He is a winner of PEN USA Emerging Voices, author of three chapbooks, Moon Country, The House My Father Could Not Build
and Matra of the Bornfree (all from Pudding House). He is associate
editor of Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the
Tsunami (Rupa & Co, India
and Bayeux Arts, Canada,
2005). Sankar's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in over 50 literary
journals including Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Connecticut Review,
Harpur Palate, Icon, Runes, Rhino, Tampa Review, and Poetry Magazine. His full
length book of poetry, Moon Country,
will be published later this year by Tebot Bach.
Judith
Robinson is an
editor, teacher, fiction writer and poet. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh,
she has been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She
was editor of Living Inland, author of The
Beautiful Wife and Other Stories; poetry editor of Signatures. She currently teaches poetry
in the ALL Program at Carnegie
Mellon University.
She is editor of Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry
of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts), and co-editor with Michael Wurster of
Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography
from Pittsburgh (Quadrant). Her chapbook, Dinner Date, was published by Finishing
Line Press in July 2009.
Walt
Peterson has
had several collections of poetry published, including Rebuilding the Porch (Nightshade Press,
1990), Image/Song (Seton Hill
University, 1994) and a collaboration with the sculptor James Shipman. He
was the winner of the 1998 Acorn-Rukeyser Award (Unfinished Monument Press).
His book, In the Waiting Room of the
Speedy Muffler King, was published in 1999. For some years he
worked as a teacher for the Pittsburgh Public Schools and has taught writing in
places as diverse as Arcadia, California,
and Cracow, Poland. In 2009, he created a
collaborative project between poets, sculptors and artists resulted in the
volume, Fission of Form.
He has long been affiliated with the International Poetry Forum, the
Pennsylvania Council for the Arts and currently leads writing workshops at
Pine Grove State Correctional Institute. He enjoys restoring rusty
British sports cars and sailing, and has helped raise two sons, Kevin and
Eric. His latest book is a collection of short fiction and the winner of
the Gribble Fiction Award for 2009,
Depth of Field.
Arlene
Weiner, a MacDowell
Colony fellow, has had poems published in a variety of journals, anthologized
in Along These Rivers (Quadrant), Eating Her Wedding Dress (Ragged
Sky) and Thatchwork (Delaware Valley Poets), and read by Garrison
Keillor on his Writer’s Almanac. Escape Velocity, a collection
of her poems, was published by Ragged Sky in 2006. Poet Joy Katz wrote
of it, “I want to keep my favorite of these beautifully alert, surprising poems
with me as I grow old.”
Jimmy Cvetic
reads Fallen Heroes
Open Mic
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