Hemingway's Poetry Series
July 11, 2017
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Standing L-R: Jimmy Cvetic, Sheila Carter-Jones, Justin Vicari & Robert Yune
Seated L-R: Karla Lamb, Joan Bauer & Arlene Weiner
As a Navy brat, Robert Yune moved 11 times by the
time he turned 18. In 2012, he was a finalist for the Flannery O’Connor Award
and was one of five finalists for the Prairie Schooner Book
Prize. His fiction has appeared in the Green Mountains Review, the
Kenyon Review, and Los Angeles
Review, among others. In the summer of 2012, he worked as a stand-in
for George Takei and has worked as an extra in movies such as The Dark
Knight Rises, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, and Father and
Daughters. Currently, he teaches at DePauw
University, located in beautiful Greencastle, Indiana.
His novel Eighty Days of Sunlight was nominated for the 2017
International DUBLIN Literary Award; other nominees included Viet Thanh Nguyen,
Margaret Atwood, and Salman Rushdie.
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Arlene Weiner is the author of City Bird (Ragged Sky). A city bird herself, Arlene Weiner grew up in pre-gentrification Manhattan and now lives in Pittsburgh. She has been a cardiology technician, a college instructor, an editor, and a research associate/member of a group developing educational software. She belongs to the US 1 Poets' Cooperative, Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange, Squirrel Hill Poetry workshop and Madwomen in the Attic. 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 riter’s Almanac. Poet Joy Katz wrote of Arlene’s previous 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." Her play, Findings, was produced this past March by the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company.
Open Mic - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
Jimmy Cvetic Reads McKees Rocks Charlie
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Arlene Weiner is the author of City Bird (Ragged Sky). A city bird herself, Arlene Weiner grew up in pre-gentrification Manhattan and now lives in Pittsburgh. She has been a cardiology technician, a college instructor, an editor, and a research associate/member of a group developing educational software. She belongs to the US 1 Poets' Cooperative, Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange, Squirrel Hill Poetry workshop and Madwomen in the Attic. 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 riter’s Almanac. Poet Joy Katz wrote of Arlene’s previous 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." Her play, Findings, was produced this past March by the Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company.
A lifelong writer, Justin Vicari is a widely
published poet, critic and translator. His first collection, The
Professional Weepers (Pavement Saw, 2011), won the Transcontinental
Award. His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Spoon River
Poetry Review, 32 Poems, Hotel Amerika, The Ledge, Oranges & Sardines,
American Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, Third Coast,
and other journals. He is the author of six books of film and literary theory,
including Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth,
Rebellion and Survival (McFarland, 2011). He lives in the South Hills
of Pittsburgh.
Karla Lamb’s
work has appeared in Word Riot, Brooklyn-based A Women’s
Thing Magazine, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Pittsburgh City Paper, Runaway Hotel,
and Voices from the Attic Vol. XIX. Lamb is a current MFA
candidate in Carlow
University’s Creative
Writing program, and is currently working on her full length manuscript. She
edits for After Happy Hour Review, and curates DOUBLE MIRЯOR
EXHIBIT in Pittsburgh, PA.
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. She is currently
working on a new poetry manuscript and a memoir.
Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main
Street Rag, 2008). Since she began writing poetry again in 2001, more than 180
of her poems have appeared in journals, anthologies and periodicals, including
most recently Calyx, Chiron Review, Cider Press Review, Paterson Literary
Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Slipstream, Uppagus, US 1 Worksheets, Voices
from the Attic, and Vox
Populi: A Public Sphere for Politics & Poetry. She is a longtime
member of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop, the Madwomen in the Attic program
at Carlow University and the Pittsburgh Poetry
Exchange. For some years, Joan worked as an English teacher and
educational counselor and now divides her time between Venice, CA, and
Pittsburgh, PA where she co-hosts and curates the Hemingway Summer Poetry
Series with her friend Jimmy Cvetic. Her second full-length poetry manuscript
is making the rounds.
Open Mic
Jimmy Cvetic Reads McKees Rocks Charlie
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Came to know that poets too have a bright future in terms of career and job perspective. Though I don't like poetry to read as I fail to understand it, yet I listen to it at times.
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