Hemingway's Poetry Series
July 25, 2017
Featured Readers
Featured Readers
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Standing L-R: Jimmy Cvetic, Bart Solarczyk, Jason Baldinger, Jameson Bayles, Adriana Ramirez & Joan Bauer
Seated L-R: Kristofer Collins, Meghan Tutolo, Angele Ellis & John Korn
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A crowdsourced tableau vivant that
recreates Caravaggio's Apotheosis of the Kneeling Supplicant
Jason Baldinger has spent a life in odd jobs, if only poetry was the strangest of them he’d have far less to talk about. Somewhere in time, he has traveled the country, and wrote a few books, the latest of which “The Lower 48” (Six Gallery Press) and the chapbook “The Studs Terkel Blues” (Night Ballet Press) as well as the anthologies Lipsmack! (Night Ballet Press) and Good Noise (Thrasher Press). A short litany of publishing credits include: The New Yinzer, Shatter Wig Press, Blast Furnace, B.E. Quarterly and Fuck Art, Let’s Dance. You can also hear audio of some poems on the bandcamp website by just typing in his name.
Kristofer Collins Introduces Jason Baldinger - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
Jason Baldinger - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
Adriana E. RamÃrez is a 2015 PEN/Fusion Award-winning nonfiction writer, storyteller, digital maker, and performance poet based in Pittsburgh. She teaches in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh, co-runs the Steel City Poetry Slam, and co-founded Aster(ix) Journal. Her work has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica, Convolution, HEArt, Apogee, and Nerve.com, as well as on hundreds of stages across the country. Ramirez is the author of two poetry chapbooks, The Swallows (Blue Sketch Press) and Trusting in Imaginary Spaces (Tired Hearts Press); she is also the nonfiction editor of DISMANTLE (Thread Makes Blanket Press).
Jameson Bayles is a roving correspondent for Poetrybay and was the
co-curator of the 2016-2017 KC Poetry Throwdown held in Kansas City, MO.
His work has been published in numerous literary journals and magazines;
including Poems-For-All, Hedgerow, The Ambriel Revolution, Thirteen Myna
Birds, Rusty Truck, Your One Phone Call and on Rumrazor.com. Jameson's work
can be found in the collaborative reader “A Case For Ascension” (Asinimali
Publications, 2015), the 2016 Hessler Street Poetry Fair Anthology (Crisis
Chronicles Press) and "Delirious- A Poetic Celebration of Prince"
(Night Ballet Press, 2016), "Recession In Neverland" (Paladin Knight
Publishing, 2017) and his solo work "legends of doe hoe" (Spartan
Press, 2017).
Kristofer Collins Introduces Jameson Bayles - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
Kristofer Collins Introduces Jameson Bayles - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
Angele Ellis is an editor, poet, fiction writer, and reviewer who has
authored four books, and appeared in over fifty publications and a dozen
anthologies. She is coauthor of Dealing With Differences (Corwin
Press), named as a top multicultural classroom resource by The Christian
Science Monitor, and author of Arab on Radar (Six Gallery
Press), whose poems won her an Individual Artist Fellowship from the
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Spared (A Main Street
Rag Editors' Choice Chapbook). Angele feels that writing and performing her
work combines two of her childhood dreams--to be an archaeologist and a lounge
singer. She lives in Friendship, whose Quakerly spirit soothes her hot-blooded
nature. Her most recent book, Under the Kaufman's Clock: Fiction,
Poems and Photographs of Pittsburgh,
Angele Ellis (author) and Rebecca Clever (photographs) was published by Six
Gallery Press in 2016.
Bart Solarczyk grew up on Pittsburgh's
Southside & now lives in Ross
Township. His poems have
recently appeared in Lilliput Review, Big Hammer, Rasputin & Nixes Mate
Review. His latest chapbook, Right Direction, was published in
November of 2016 as one of Lilliput Review's Modest Proposal series.
Bart Solarczyk - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
When Meghan Tutolo isn't writing romance about Italian foods or grading essays, she can be found doodling galaxies, playing her ukulele (horribly) or spilling her guts into Moleskines. Meghan earned her M.F.A. in Poetry from Chatham University, her B.A. in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and OCD, ADHD, etc. from genetics, probably. Her work has appeared in journals such as Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Arsenic Lobster and Main Street Rag. Her first chapbook of poems, Little As Living, was published in September 2014.
When Meghan Tutolo isn't writing romance about Italian foods or grading essays, she can be found doodling galaxies, playing her ukulele (horribly) or spilling her guts into Moleskines. Meghan earned her M.F.A. in Poetry from Chatham University, her B.A. in English Writing from the University of Pittsburgh and OCD, ADHD, etc. from genetics, probably. Her work has appeared in journals such as Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Arsenic Lobster and Main Street Rag. Her first chapbook of poems, Little As Living, was published in September 2014.
John Korn lives in Pittsburgh. He is the author of a book of
poetry titled Television Farm which can be purchased on amazon.com. He has worked as a
mental health social worker for many years now. He was nominated for two
Pushcart Prizes, one for his poem "14 young women" and another for
his poem "Yellow lamp shade head." He didn't win either of
these prizes and he is not even sure what those prizes are.
John Korn - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
Kristofer Collins is the Books Editor at Pittsburgh Magazine, as well as being a frequent contributor to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is the publisher of Low Ghost Press and Coleridge Street Books. He also manages Caliban Book Shop in Oakland (and owns Desolation Row Records located inside). His latest poetry collection Local Conditions was published in 2015. He lives in Stanton Heights, a hidden gem in Pittsburgh’s east end with his wife Dr. Anna Johnson and their three cats.
Kristofer Collins - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
Kristofer Collins is the Books Editor at Pittsburgh Magazine, as well as being a frequent contributor to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is the publisher of Low Ghost Press and Coleridge Street Books. He also manages Caliban Book Shop in Oakland (and owns Desolation Row Records located inside). His latest poetry collection Local Conditions was published in 2015. He lives in Stanton Heights, a hidden gem in Pittsburgh’s east end with his wife Dr. Anna Johnson and their three cats.
Kristofer Collins - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
Open Mic
Jimmy Cvetic Reads Why U Hatin'?
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