Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
June 04,
2013
Roberta Hatcher teaches French at Duquesne University, and her research has involved
French-language literatures from the world beyond France, in particular post-independence
literatures of sub-Saharan Africa. She is also interested in African cinema, postcolonial
studies, and the emerging field of French Atlantic studies. She has read in a
number of poetry venues in Pittsburgh, and recently participated in a session
of "Border Crossing Poetry" at the Northeast Modern Language
Association Conference held in Montreal. She was a 2009 finalist for the
Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, and is currently working on a manuscript titled French Lessons.
As a youngster, Gene Hirsch studied “New” music with
Stefan Wolpe. He received an MD degree with an academic career in Cardiology,
Geriatrics, and Humanities in Medicine. He has written poetry since
medical school with poems appearing in medical journals, anthologies, Crossing Limits, Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette, and
others. In 1992, Gene initiated a writing program at the John C. Campbell Folk School, Brasstown, NC, in which he teaches and has produced
five anthologies featuring students and an active poetry community. He
has been resident poet at the folk school, Consortium Ethics Program (Univ.
Pitt.), and Forbes Hospice. He attends the Pittsburgh Poetry
Exchange.
Joseph Karasek performed as an actor and violinist with
The Theater Within, an improvisational theater group in New York City. A former violist with the
National Orchestral Association, he created school orchestras on the elementary
and secondary levels., and taught music composition and music theory at Long Island University. Living in Pittsburgh, Pa since, 1991, he has taught philosophy at
the Academy for Lifelong Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. Several years ago, he led a study
group on James Joyce's Ulysses there. His poetry has been published in Only
the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts), and Blue Arc
West: An Anthology of California Poets. His two books of poetry, Beyond Waking, and Love
and the Ten Thousand Things, were published by Tebot Bach in 2009.
Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of
Drowning (Main Street Rag). Her poetry
has appeared in numerous journals including
5 AM, Cider Press Review, Pearl, Poet Lore, Quarterly West, Slipstream, US
1 Worksheets, and more than a dozen anthologies, Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh
(Quadrant), Blue Arc West: An Anthology
of California Poets (Tebot Bach), and Voices
from the Attic (Carlow University Press), among them. In 2007, her poem,
"Sleepers," won the Earl Birney Poetry Prize from Prism
International. Joan divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA where she curates the Hemingway Summer
Poetry Series with Jimmy Cvetic.
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