Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
June 11,
2013
Sharon McDermott is a poet, who teaches in
the upper school of Winchester Thurston School. She is the author of
three small collections of poetry: Voluptuous (Ultima Obscura Press),
Alley Scatting (Parallel Press, U. of Wisconsin) and most recently, Bitter
Acoustic (2012, Jacar Press.) McDermott is a past recipient of both an
artist grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation and a PA Council on the Arts grant.
She is also a musician, who likes to mix music into her poetry readings
whenever possible.
Rick St. John studied English at Princeton University
(B.A.) and the University of Virginia (M.A.). Following 20 years of work in
community development, Rick completed a mid-career Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University, and then founded and directed
"Conversations for Common Wealth,” which used poetry and other materials
to help small groups of citizens connect across difference and reflect on their
own contributions to the common good. His poems have appeared in Carolina
Quarterly, 5 a.m.,
Poet Lore, Sewanee Review
and many other periodicals. His book, The Pure Inconstancy of Grace
was published in 2005 by Truman State University Press. For some years, Rick
was Executive Director of Autumn House Press, a non-profit literary publishing
house based in Pittsburgh. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife Kate.
A seventh generation
Pittsburgher, Jay Carson teaches
creative writing, literature, and rhetoric at Robert Morris University, where he is a University Professor and a faculty
advisor to the student literary journal, Rune.
Active professionally, Jay regularly presents, reads, and publishes in local
and national venues. More than 60 of his poems have appeared in national
literary journals, magazines, and anthologies. He has also co-edited with
Judith Robinson a collection of Margaret Menamin's poetry entitled, The Snow Falls Up. His
first full-length book of poetry, Cinnamon of Desire, was published in
2013 by Main Street Rag. Jay has also published a chapbook, Irish Coffee,
with Coal Hill Review. Jay considers his poetry Appalachian, Irish, accessible,
and the problem-solving spiritual survival of a raging, youth -- and just what
you might need.
Sheila
Carter-Jones has been
described by Herbert Woodward Martin as one who writes with "immediacy of
tone, voice and language." Much of her work to date charts in images and
music the lived experiences of a small-town girl brought up in a house across
from the boney dump of Republic Steel Coal Mines outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has been published in Pennsylvania Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Tri-State Anthology, Blair Mountain Press and Flights. Grace Cavalieri, producer and host of
"The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress" says that
Sheila's recent book Blackberry Cobbler Song premiers a narrative poet
in the greatest tradition of American storytellers.
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