Hemingway's Poetry Series
June 26, 2018
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Standing L-R: Jimmy Cvetic, Liane Ellison Norman & Joan Bauer
Seated L-R: Malcolm Friend, Rickey Laurentiis & Toi Derricotte
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Rickey Laurentiis & Toi Derricotte
Malcolm Friend is a poet originally from the Rainier
Beach neighborhood of Seattle,
Washington. He received his BA
from Vanderbilt University
and his MFA from the University
of Pittsburgh. He is the
author of the chapbook mxd kd
mixtape (Glass Poetry, 2017),
and has received awards and fellowships from organizations including
CantoMundo, VONA/Voices of Our
Nations, Backbone Press, the Center for African American Poetry & Poetics,
and the University of Memphis. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in
publications including La
Respuesta magazine, Vinyl, Word Riot, The Acentos Review, and Pretty Owl Poetry. His first
full-length book of poetry, Our Bruises
Kept Singing Purple, was the winner of the Hillary Gravendyk Prize and will
be published by the Inlandia Institute in 2018.
Liane Ellison Norman’s most recent book of poems, The Solid
Earth is a Restless Place, was published by Smoke & Mirrors Press
in 2018. Way Station, was issued by Finishing Line Press in
2017. Breathing the West: Great Basin Poems, was published by
Bottom Dog Press in 2012, a year in which a chapbook, Driving Near the
Old Federal Arsenal, was released by Finishing Line Press and Roundtrip by
Yesterdays Parties Press. Norman has
published individual poems in the North American Review, Kestrel, The
Fourth River, 5 AM, Grasslimb,
Rune, Hot Metal Press and in Voices From the Attic and Come
Together: Imagine Peace anthologies. She won the Wisteria Prize for
poetry in 2006 from Paper Journey Press and has published two earlier books of
poetry, The Duration of Grief and Keep; a book
about nonviolent protest against nuclear bomb parts makers, Mere
Citizens: United, Civil and Disobedient, a biography, Hammer of
Justice: Molly Rush and the Plowshares Eight, a novel, Stitches in
Air: A Novel About Mozart’s Mother, and many articles, essays
and reviews.
Rickey Laurentiis was raised in New Orleans, Louisiana,
to love the dark. His poetry has been supported by several foundations and
fellowships, including the Civitella Ranieri Foundation in Italy, Poetry International
Rotterdam, the National Endowment for the Arts, Cave Canem Foundation, and the
Poetry Foundation, which awarded him a Ruth Lilly Fellowship in 2012. In 2016,
he traveled to Palestine
as an invited reader for the Palestine Festival of Literature. He is the author
of Boy with Thorn, winner of the Cave
Canem Poetry Prize and the Levis Reading Prize, and a finalist for the Kate
Tufts Discovery award, as well as named one of the top ten debuts of 2015 by Poets & Writers Magazine and a top
16 best poetry books by Buzzfeed, among other distinctions. His poems have have
been translated into Arabic, Spanish and Ukrainian. Laurentiis' interests
include visual culture, ekphrasis, shade, revisionary logics, penetration and
the body, radical justice, cultural studies and shame. He has taught at a
selection of institutions, including Columbia
University, Sarah Lawrence
College, and the 92nd Street Y. He
is the inaugural Fellow in Creative Writing at the Center for African American
Poetry and Poetics at the University
of Pittsburgh.
Toi Derricotte is the
author of The Undertaker’s Daughter (University of Pittsburgh
Press, 2011) and four earlier collections of
poetry, including Tender, winner of the 1998 Paterson Poetry Prize.
Her literary memoir, The Black Notebooks (W.W. Norton),
received the 1998 Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for Non-Fiction and was a New
York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her honors include, among many
others, the 2012 Paterson Poetry Prize for Sustained Literary Achievement, the
2012 PEN/Voelcker Award for Poetry, the Lucille Medwick Memorial Award from the
Poetry Society of America, two Pushcart Prizes and the Distinguished Pioneering
of the Arts Award from the United Black Artists. Derricotte is the co-founder
of Cave Canem Foundation (with Cornelius Eady), Professor Emerita at the University of Pittsburgh
and a Chancellor of the Academy
of American Poets.
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Open Mic
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Jimmy Cvetic Reads Uncle Pete
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Toi Derricotte - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download
Open Mic
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Jimmy Cvetic Reads Uncle Pete
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