July 31, 2018 (The Grand Finale)

Hemingway's Poetry Series

July 31, 2018

Surprise Guest Appearance

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Nick Nolte and Jimmy Cvetic

Featured Readers

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Standing L-R: Joan Bauer, Scott Silsbe, Ally  Malinenko & Celeste Gainey

Seated L-R: John Grochalski, Lori Jakiela & Richard Gegick

Jimmy Cvetic Introduces Nick Nolte

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Scott Silsbe Introduces Celeste Gainey

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Celeste Gainey is the author of the full-length poetry collection, the GAFFER (Arktoi Books/Red Hen Press, 2015), and the chapbook In the land of speculation & seismography (Seven Kitchens Press, 2011), runner-up for the 2010 Robin Becker Prize. The first woman to be admitted to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) as a gaffer, she has spent many years working with light in film and architecture. www.celestegainey.com

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Scott Silsbe Introduces Richard Gegick

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Richard Gegick is from Trafford, PA. He lives in Pittsburgh where he writes and waits tables for a living.

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Scott Silsbe Introduces John Grochalski

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John Grochalski is the author of The Noose Doesn’t Get Any Looser After You Punch Out (Six Gallery Press 2008), Glass City (Low Ghost Press, 2010), In The Year of Everything Dying (Camel Saloon, 2012), Starting with the Last Name Grochalski (Coleridge Street Books, 2014), The Philosopher's Ship (Alien Buddha Pres, 2018) and the novels, The Librarian (Six Gallery Press 2013), and Wine Clerk (Six Gallery Press 2016).  Grochalski currently lives in

Brooklyn, New York, where the garbage can smell like roses if you wish on it hard enough. 

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Scott Silsbe Introduces Lori Jakiela

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Lori Jakiela is the author of four memoirs, including BELIEF IS ITS OWN KIND OF TRUTH, MAYBE, which received the William Saroyan Prize for International Writing from Stanford University and was named one of 20 Nonfiction Books Not to Miss in 2015 by The Huffington Post. Her most recent book is PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A BINGO WORKER, a collection of essays about work and the writing life, published in August by Bottom Dog Press. In 2016, she received the City of Asylum Pittsburgh Prize, which sent her on a month-long residency to Brussels, Belgium. She is also the author of the poetry collection SPOT THE TERRORIST! and several limited-edition poetry chapbooks. A native of Trafford, PA, Jakiela now runs community writing workshops in her hometown and lives with her husband, the author Dave Newman, and their two children. 

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Scott Silsbe Introduces Ally Malinenko

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Ally Malinenko is the author of the poetry collections The Wanting Bone, How to Be An American (Six Gallery Press), Better Luck Next Year (Low Ghost) and Fitting the Ocean in Your Mouth (Blue Hour) as well as the novel This Is Sarah (Bookfish Books). She lives in Brooklyn and tweets at @allymalinenko mostly about David Bowie and Doctor Who.

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Scott Silsbe was born in Detroit and now lives in Pittsburgh. His poems and prose have appeared in a number of fine periodicals including Kitchen Sink, Third Coast, The Chariton Review, Nerve Cowboy, Words Dance, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Six Gallery Press published his first full-length collection of poems Unattended Fire in 2012 and Low Ghost Press published The River Underneath the City in 2013.   His third collection, Muskrat Family Dinner, was published by White Gorilla Press in 2017.

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July 24, 2018 (Baldinger, Brice, Kitchens, November, Sargeson & Stupp)

Hemingway's Poetry Series

July 24, 2018

 Jason Baldinger & Jimmy Cvetic

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Kayla Sargeson

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Charlie Brice With Attendee

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Standing L-R: Jimmy Cvetic, Kayla Sargeson, Charlie Brice & Joan Bauer

Seated L-R: Romella Kitchens, John Stupp, Deena November & Jason Baldinger

Jason Baldinger recently finished a stint as writer in residence at the Osage Arts Community. He’s the author of several books, the most recent are This Useless Beauty (Alien Buddha Press), The Ugly Side of the Lake (Night Ballet Press) written with John Dorsey and the chaplet Fumbles Revelations (Grackle and Crow).The collection Fragments of a Rainy Season (Six Gallery Press) and the split book with James Benger Little Fires Hiding (Spartan Press) are forthcoming. Recent publications include the Low Ghost Anthology, Unconditional Surrender, Outlaw Poetry, Uppagus, Lilliput Review, Anti-Heroin Chic, Nerve Cowboy Concrete Meat Press, Zombie Logic Press, Solidarity and Resistance. For more:  jasonbaldinger.bandcamp.com

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Charlie Brice is a retired psychoanalyst and is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (WordTech Editions, 2016) and of Mnemosyne’s Hand (WordTech Editions, forthcoming, May, 2018). His poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in The Atlanta Review, Hawaii Review, The Main Street Rag, Chiron Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, SLAB, The Paterson Literary Review, Spitball, Plainsongs and elsewhere. 

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Romella Kitchens is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. She is a poet, a quilter, a painter, and a playwright. Her work has appeared in 5AM, California Quarterly, Chiron Review, Main Street Rag, The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry, Iodine Poetry Journal, Mudfish Review, uppagus, and others. She has done poetry residencies and has addressed many school groups concerning poetry. In 2014, she was a judge for the city wide level of Poetry Outloud. Her chapbooks include Hip Hop Warrior, The Immortals, The Red Covered Bridge and The Heaven Of Elephants. 

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Deena November is the author of Mean Mama (Main Street Rag, 2017).She has edited two anthologies, Nasty Women & Bad Hombres (Lascaux Editions, 2017) and I Just Hope It's Lethal (Houghton Mifflin, 2005). Her poetry has appeared in Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review, Women Write Resistance, Mom Egg Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette among others. Her chapbook Dick Wad was published by Hyacinth Girl Press in 2012. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Carlow University. Deena has taught at Robert Morris University, Carlow University, Seton Hill and The Art Institute of Pittsburgh Online. She curates the Staghorn Poetry Series. 

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Kayla Sargeson is the author of the full-length collection First Red (Main Street Rag, 2016) and the chapbooks BLAZE (Main Street Rag, 2015) and Mini Love Gun (Main Street Rag, 2013). She serves as the poetry editor for Pittsburgh City Paper’s online feature Chapter & Verse and with Lisa Alexander, co-curates the Laser Cat reading series. Sargeson lives in Pittsburgh where she teaches at Duquesne University, Carlow University and the Community College of Allegheny County.

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John Stupp’s third poetry collection Pawleys Island was published in 2017 by Finishing Line Press. His manuscript Summer Job won the 2017 Cathy Smith Bowers Poetry Prize and will be published in August 2018 by Main Street Rag. His latest effort, When Billy Conn Fought Fritzie Zivic, is making the rounds.  He lives in Sewickley.

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Jimmy Cvetic Reads Caught By the Balls

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July 17, 2018 (East End Poets)

Hemingway's Poetry Series
July 17, 2018

Bill O'Driscoll of WESA Interviews Shawn and Sawyer

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Featured Poets

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Standing L-R: Judith Dorian, Jan Hamilton, Mike Schneider & Jimmy Cvetic

Seated L-R: Nola Garrett, Judith Brice, Marc Jampole & Joan Bauer

Judith A Brice's poems have appeared in the Paterson Literary Review, Vox Populi, Versewrights, and elsewhere. Her poem "Mourning Calls" has been set to music by Tony Manfredonia. Her second book of poetry, Overhead from Longing, will be published in 2018. 

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 Judith Dorian, PhD., co-authored Program Notes for the PSO and wrote for several music journals. She’s given talks for the PSO Music 101 series, the PMCS and the Andy Warhol Museum prior to concerts. Judith narrated with chamber ensemble and orchestra at the Bedford Springs Festival Concerts and on the stage of Mellon Institute. In 2013 she published A Tiny Little Door, a collection of children’s poetry. This spring Judith will teach a class under the auspices of the University of Pittsburgh’s Osher program. Her work has appeared in several poetry journals, most recently the online publication VerseWrights.


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Nola Garrett has received a Residency a Yaddo, Scholarships from White River Writers' Workshop, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, and West Chester Poetry Conference; and is listed on the Mezzo Cammin Women Poets Timeline. Her poems are posted on The Georgia Review's Vault and her blog essays are available online at Autumn House Press coalhillreview.com. She has 2 chapbooks, and 3 books of poems: The Dynamite Maker's Mistress, David Robert Books, 2009; The Pastor's Wife Considers Pinball, Mayapple Press, 2013; LEDGE, Mayapple Press, 2016. Her most recent anthology publications appear in Obsession: Sestinas in the 21st Century, Dartmouth Press, 2014 and Nasty Women Poets, Lost Horse Press, 2017.

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Marc Jampole wrote Music from Words (Bellday Books, 2007) and the chapbook, Cubist States of Mind/Not the Cruelest Month (Poet’s Haven Press, 2017). His poetry has appeared in Evansville Review, Mississippi Review, Cortland Review, Recours au Poème, Vallum, Slant, Cutthroat, China Grove and many other journals and anthologies. Over the years, four of his poems have been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. More than 1,800 freelance articles that Marc Jampole has written on various topics have been published in magazines and newspapers.  A former television news reporter and public relations executive, Marc also writes the OpEdge blog, which appears on the websites of three national publications. He is president of the board of directors of the leftist magazine Jewish Currents.

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Mike Schneider has published poems in many literary journals, including New Ohio Review, Notre Dame Review and Poetry. He received the 2012 Editors Award in Poetry from The Florida Review, and won the 2016 Robert Phillips Prize from Texas Review Press, which in 2017 published his chapbook, How Many Faces Do You Have?

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Song for America - The featured readings concluded with a musical selection: "Song for America" ("Bad Boyfriend) written by poet Arlene Weiner and performed by Mike Schneider and Jan Hamilton.

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July 10, 2018 (Bastille Day Celebration)

Hemingway's Poetry Series

July 10, 2018

Featured Readers

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Standing L-R: Jimmy Cvetic, Bob Ziller, Artie Solomon & Joan Bauer

Seated L-R: Justin Vicari, Djilali Benlahlou & Roberta Hatcher

Roberta Hatcher’s poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, Main Street Rag, St. Petersburg Review, Storm Cellar, Rune, Pittsburgh’s City Paper, and the Post-Gazette, among others. She has been a finalist for the Patricia Dobler Award, was runner-up for the Arkadii Dragomoshchenko Prize for Innovative Use of Language in Poetry, and her poem French Lesson #3 was nominated for Best American Poets 2014. She holds a Ph.D. in French from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and currently tutors candidates for citizenship at the Greater Pittsburgh Literacy Council. Her chapbook French Lessons (Finishing Line Press) was published in 2017.

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Djilali Benlahlou studied Economics at a French language university in Algeria, his native country. He speaks Berber, Arabic, and now English, but French is the language and literature he really loves. He spent a little time in France before coming to Pittsburgh in 2001 where he worked as a cook for the Double Tree hotel while learning English in AIU's Adult ESL program then attended CCAC where he received his A.A. in Business Management. He now works as a Finance Administrator at BNY Mellon. Last year, he became a U.S. citizen.

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Artie Solomon has always written in poetic form. He has attended workshops and studied with Michael Wurster, Arthur Erbe, and others. He has also read his poems at Te' Café, Hemingway's, and the Oakmont and Squirrel Hill Libraries. He is a member of the Mon Valley Poets, Squirrel Hill Sunday Workshop, and Te' Café poets (now at Biddle's Escape) . He has a bachelor's degree in math and a master's in library science from Pitt, as well as a teaching certificate from Duquesne. His favorite poets are Billy Collins and Langston Hughes. He continues to study literature at Pitt Osher.

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Justin Vicari  has won awards from Third Coast, New Millennium Writings, and Plan B Press.  His first collection of poems, The Professional Weepers (Pavement Saw, 2011), received the Transcontinental Award. He has also authored several books of literary, film and philosophical theory, including Male Bisexuality in Current Cinema: Images of Growth, Rebellion and Survival (McFarland, 2001), Nicholas Winding Refn and the Violence of Art (McFarland, 2014), and Japanese Film and the Floating Mind: Cinematic Contemplations of Being (McFarland, 2016)  He is also a translator of Paul Eluard, Jean Sénac, J.-K. Huysmans, Francoise Emmanuel and Octava Mirbeau.  His second full-length book of poetry, In Search of Lost Joy, was published by Main Street Rag in 2018.

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Bob Ziller is the author of Van Gogh Surfing, and the translator of Almost Dreams and Translated from the Night by Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo. His poems have appeared in The Great American Wise Ass Poetry Anthology, Along These Rivers: Poetry & Photography from Pittsburgh, The American Haikuists Newsletter, online at www.voxpopuli.com, and in many other publications. He is the editor/publisher of Lascaux Editions which published Nasty Women & Bad Hombres: A Poetry Anthology in 2017.

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Jimmy Cvetic Closes the Show

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July 3, 2018 (Lillis, Philyaw & Steigerwald)

Hemingway's Poetry Series

July 3, 2018

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Seated L-R: Bill Steigerwald, Deesha Philyaw & Karen Lillis

Standing L-R: Jimmy Cvetic & Joan Bauer

Karen Lillis is a writer and bookseller. She is the author of four poetic novels, including “Watch the Doors As They Close” (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012), works at Caliban Books during the day, and runs Karen’s Book Row, a pop up and online bookshop. Her writing has appeared in The Austin Chronicle, The Brooklyn Rail, Evergreen Review, LA Cultural Weekly, and the Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology, among others. An Acker Award winner for Avant Garde Excellence in Fiction, her recent publications include Submerging Zine, From Somewhere to Nowhere: The End of the American Dream, and forthcoming prose in Local Knowledge (Fall 2018). 

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Deesha Philyaw is the co-author of Co-Parenting 101: Helping Your Kids Thrive in Two Households After Divorce, written with her ex-husband. Her fiction and nonfiction writing on race, parenting, sex and culture has appeared in publications including The New York Times, The Washington Post, McSweeney’s, brevity, Apogee Journal, Cheat River Review, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette; Essence, and Ebony magazines. Deesha is a past Pushcart Prize nominee for essay writing in Full Grown People. 

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Bill Steigerwald  is a veteran journalist from Pittsburgh who worked at the Los Angeles Times in the 1980s, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in the 1990s and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review in the 2000s. Steigerwald’s new nonfiction book 30 Days a Black Man tells the story of an undercover mission by Pittsburgh Post-Gazette star reporter Ray Sprigle into the Jim Crow South in 1948. Sprigle’s nationally syndicated series, “In the Land of Jim Crow.” exposed the iniquities and humiliations suffered by ten million black Americans in the segregated South and started the first national debate in the media about ending America’s legal apartheid. Kirkus Review called 30 Days a Black Man is “a fascinating account of an anti-Jim Crow muckraking adventure…” that Steigerwald turned “into rollicking, haunting American history.” In 2010 Steigerwald faithfully retraced John Steinbeck’s Travels With Charley road trip of 1960 and wrote Dogging Steinbeck.  He and his wife Trudi live south of Pittsburgh in the woods. 

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Jimmy Cvetic Reads Brown People Need Not Apply

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