Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
May 21,
2013
Rosaly
DeMaios Roffman,
facilitator of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop, taught creative writing, myth
and literature and started a Myth/Folklore Studies Center at Indiana
University of Pennsylvania. She co-edited the prize-winning anthology Life
on the Line and is author of Going to Bed Whole, Tottering Palaces and The Approximate Message. She
has read her poems in Ireland, Greece, Mexico, Israel, Spain and the Czech Republic and was a featured writer on the BBC's
"Writer from Abroad" series. Her work has been published in Centennial
Review, Riverrun, MacGuffin, Main Street Rag and the Pittsburgh Quarterly and she is the recipient
of the Distinguished Faculty Award in the Arts at IUP. Over the years, she
has been involved in 23 collaborations, often with artists and dancers. Her
book of poetry, I Want to Thank My Eyes, was published by Tebot Bach in
April 2012.
Arlene Weiner has been a cardiology technician, a
college instructor, an editor, and a research associate/member of a group
developing educational software. A native of New York City, Arlene has lived in Pittsburgh for most of her adult life. Arlene has had poems published in Pleiades,
Poet Lore, The Louisville Review, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, anthologized in Along These Rivers, and
read by Garrison Keillor on his Writer’s Almanac. Poet Joy
Katz wrote of Arlene’s collection of poems, Escape Velocity (Ragged
Sky, 2006), “I want to keep my favorite of these beautifully alert, surprising
poems with me as I grow old.”
Miguel Ruiz is a native of Los Angeles who now lives in Pittsburgh with his soon-to-be wife,
Lauren. Though he makes his living as a member of PNC's Strategic Initiatives
Office, Miguel has written poetry since middle school. He strives to mesh both
lyrical and objectivist sensibilities, while examining people, places, and thoughts.
Miguel studied at Loyola Marymount University and Harvard Business School.
Pam O'Brien
began writing poetry at Allegheny College and was hooked once her strange response to The Beatles' “Strawberry
Fields Forever” was published in the literary magazine. Her career has included
grant writing, community organization, public relations and advertising, and
teaching Spanish. She currently holds a lectureship in the English Department
of the University of Pittsburgh where she serves as the Associate Director of Public and Professional
Writing. She was a 2012 finalist for the Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching
Award and recipient of teaching excellence awards from the College of General Studies in 2008 and 2011. She has published three chapbooks,
Kaleidoscopes, Paper Dancing and Acceptable Losses. Her
full-length poetry book, The Answer to Each is the Same, will be
released by Dos Madres Press in 2012.
Randy Minnich is a retired chemist,
now focusing on writing, environmental issues, t’ai chi, and
grandchildren. A member of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop and
Pittsburgh Poetry Society, he has published two books, Wildness in a Small
Place and Pavlov’s Cats. His work has also appeared in Main
Street Rag, Pearl, Pudding, Snowy
Egret, Blueline, and other publications.
Ziggy
Edwards grew up in Pittsburgh and earned a BA in Fiction Writing from
the University of Pittsburgh. Her poems and short stories have
appeared in publications including
Confluence, Paper Street, Pittsburgh City Paper, Nexus, Main Street Rag, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Ship of Fools. She has also been a guest on the radio
program, Prosody. Ziggy's first chapbook, Hope's White Shoes. was published in 2006.
Ann Curran
is author of the chapbook Placement Test.
She is former long-time editor of Carnegie Mellon Magazine and staff writer for
the Pittsburgh Catholic and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She holds degrees from
Duquesne University. She taught at Duquesne and the Community College of Allegheny County.
Her poetry has appeared in Rosebud
Magazine, U.S. 1 Worksheets, The Main Street Rag, Off the Coast, Blueline,
Third Wednesday, Notre Dame Magazine, Ireland of the Welcomes, Commonweal
Magazine and others, as well as the anthologies: Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh, Motif 2 Come What May and Motif 3 All the Livelong Day, Thatchwork, and Surrounded: Living With Islands.
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