Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
July 9, 2013
Paola Corso
was born in the Pittsburgh area where her Italian immigrant family found
work in the steel mill. A New York Foundation for the Arts Poetry Fellow and
Sherwood Anderson Fiction Award winner, she is the author of six books of
poetry and fiction, most recently, The Laundress Catches Her Breath and Once I Was Told the Air Was Not
for Breathing. She’s moved back to the Burgh after living in Brooklyn for many years. Currently, she is a lecturer in Chatham University's Low Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing.
Rina Ferrarelli came from Italy at the age of fifteen. She taught English and translation studies at
the University of Pittsburgh for many years. She has published a book and a chapbook of original
poetry, Home Is a Foreign Country
(1996), and Dreamsearch (1992); and
three books of translation, Light Without
Motion (1989), I Saw the Muses
(Guernica, 1997), and Winter Fragments:
Selected Poems of Bartolo Cattafi, (2006). The Bread We Ate, another book of poems, was published by Guernica in Spring 2012.
A native of New Orleans, Sheryl St.
Germain has taught creative writing at The University of Texas at Dallas, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Knox College and Iowa State University. She currently directs the MFA program in Creative Writing at Chatham University where she also teaches poetry and creative nonfiction. Her work has
received several awards, including two NEA Fellowships, an NEH Fellowship, the
Dobie-Paisano Fellowship, the Ki Davis Award from the Aspen Writers Foundation,
and most recently the William Faulkner Award for the personal essay. Her books
include Going Home, The Mask of Medusa,
Making Bread at Midnight, How Heavy
the Breath of God, and The Journals of Scheherazade. She has
also published a book of translations of the Cajun poet Jean Arceneaux, Je Suis
Cadien. A book of lyric essays, Swamp
Songs: the Making of an Unruly Woman, was published in 2003 by The
University of Utah Press. Her most recent book is Let it Be a Dark Roux: New and Selected Poems, published by Autumn
House Press in 2007.
Philip Terman’s most recent book of poetry is In the Torah Garden, published by Autumn
House Press in 2011. His earlier books
include The House of Sages, Book of the Unbroken Days and Rabbis of the Air. His poems have
appeared in many journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, The Gettysburg Review, Tikkun, and Blood
to Remember: American Poets Respond to the Holocaust. He is the
recipient of the Sow’s Ear Chapbook Award, The Kenneth Patchen Prize, and the
Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award for Poems on the Jewish Experience. He teaches
creative writing and literature at Clarion University and co-directs the Chautauqua Writers’
Festival at the Chautauqua Institute. With his wife Christine and their
daughters Mimi and Bella, he resides in a red-brick schoolhouse outside of Grove City, Pennsylvania.
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