Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
June 25,
2013
Sheila Kelly is a retired psychotherapist, poet and
playwright. She is a member of the Madwomen in the Attic poetry workshops,
Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange and a regular facilitator for the Pittsburgh
Writers’ Studio. Three of Sheila’s plays received staged readings at the 2009
Pittsburgh Three Rivers Arts Festival. She has worked for many years with
gifted middle school writers and published the annual, St. Bede’s Quill. Most recent work appears in Brief Encounters: Ekphrases from the Spinning Plate Gallery. Other
poems upcoming in Voices from the Attic:
Volume XIX.
Norma West Linder was born in Toronto during 1928, but spent her childhood on Manitoulin Island and her teenage years in Muskoka. She is a member of The Writers’ Union
of Canada, International PEN, and The Ontario Poetry Society. She was a
founding member of Writers in Transition and served as President of the Sarnia
Branch of the Canadian Authors Association. Linder is the author of five
novels, fourteen collections of poetry, a memoir of Manitoulin Island, a children’s book, and a biography of Pauline McGibbon. For
twenty-four years she was on the faculty of Lambton College, teaching English and Creative Writing. Her short stories have been
published internationally, are widely anthologized, and have been broadcast on
CBC radio. Her books of poetry include: On the Side of the Angels, Ring Around the
Sun, Pyramid, The Rooming House, River
of Lethe: A Journey Through Alzheimer’s and When Angels Weep, among others.
James Deahl was born in Pittsburgh in 1945, and grew up in that city as
well as in and around the Laurel Highlands region of the Appalachian Mountains. He moved to Canada in 1970. He is the author (or, in the
case of Tu Fu, translator) of twenty-two literary titles, including No Star
Is Lost and If Ever Two Were
One. A cycle of his poems is the focus of a one-hour TV special,
Under the Watchful Eye (Silver Falls Video Productions, 1993). The
audiotape of Under the Watchful Eye was released by Broken Jaw Press in
September, 1995. These have been reissued on CD and DVD by Silver Falls. In addition to his writing, he has
taught creative writing and Canadian literature at the high school, college,
and university levels. He no longer teaches, and for the past dozen years has
mostly been a full-time writer/editor/translator. As a critic and literary
historian, Deahl is the leading Acornic scholar. James Deahl lives in Sarnia, Canada.
Michael Wurster has lived in Pittsburgh since 1962 and is a founding member of
the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchanged. For 17
years, 1993-2010, he taught at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts School.
He is author or co-editor of four published books, including The Snake Charmer’s Daughter (ELEMENOPE,
2000) and The British Detective (Main
Street Rag Publishing, 2009). Newer work
is recent or forthcoming in 5
AM, California
Quarterly, and Descant. 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.
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