Hemingway's Poetry Series
May 7, 2019
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Standing L-R: Daniela Buccilli, Doralee Brooks, Bernadette Ulsamer, Kara Knickerbocker, Valerie Bacharach & Joan Bauer
Seated L-R: Kristofer Collins, Sarah Williams-Devereux & Jamilla Rice
Joan Bauer Opens the Series
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Kristofer Collins Reads a Poem by Jimmy Cvetic
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Jan Beatty Introduces the Madwomen
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Valerie Bacharach’s poetry has appeared in several publications including Pittsburgh
Quarterly, US 1 Worksheets, The Tishman Review, Topology Magazine, Poetica, The
Ekphrastic Review, and Voices from the Attic. She is a member of
Carlow University ’s Madwomen in the Attic
workshops and conducts weekly poetry workshops at CeCe’s Place, a halfway house
for women in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Her first
chapbook, Fireweed, was published in August 2018 by Main Street
Rag.
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Doralee
Brooks, a Writing Project Fellow (1995), teaches at the Community
College of Allegheny County where she chairs the developmental studies
department. Her poems have appeared in Uppagus, Pittsburgh Poetry
Review, Voices from the Attic, and The Paterson Review. Her
chapbook, When Damballah Laughs, was a finalist for the 2016 Coal
Hill Review Chapbook Prize. In 2017, her poem, “Trending This Fall,” was
published in the anthology Nasty Women and Bad Hombres edited by
Deena November and Nina Padolf. She writes with the Madwomen in the Attic
poetry workshop.
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Daniela Buccilli’s poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in publications that
include Paterson Literary Review,
Cimarron Review, Cider Press Review, US
1 Worksheets, and an anthology. She is completing her second MFA, this time
in poetry. She has taught at public high schools for 25 years. Her poetry
chapbook How Much It Takes To Carry will be published in 2019
by Main Street Rag. She is also working as an editor for Show Us Your
Papers: A Poetry Anthology.
Kara Knickerbocker is a writer and world traveler from Saegertown , Pennsylvania
and the author of the chapbooks The Shedding Before the Swell and Next
to Everything that is Breakable. She is currently earning her MFA at Carlow
University/Trinity College Dublin. Her most recent poetry and essays appeared
in or are forthcoming from: Longridge Review, Moledro Magazine, Pittsburgh Poetry Review,
One Sentence Poems, Uppagus, and the anthology Voices
from the Attic, Vol. XXII, among others. Knickerbocker lives in Pittsburgh , where she works at Carnegie Mellon
University , writes with
the Madwomen in the Attic, and co-curates the MadFridays Reading
Series.
Jamilla Rice dreams of when she can own her days and write. Until then,
she squeezes out the time between being an athlete, educator, speaker, aunt,
gardener, book nerd, baker, and British detective drama junkie. She’s been
published in Voices from the Attic, among other anthologies and periodicals.
You may have heard her read at Penguin Bookshop, White Whale Books, Delanie’s
Coffee House, on WESA’s Prosody, or that random open mic in Toronto .
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Bernadette Ulsamer earned an MFA from Carlow
University where she is a
member of Madwomen in the Attic. She is the author of the chapbook
“Trestling” published by Flutter Press. Her poetry has appeared in Pittsburgh
City Paper, The Main Street Rag, Cossack Literary
Journal, Roar Magazine, The Broken Plate, Meat For Tea:
The Valley Review, and has been anthologized in Voices from the
Attic, and Along These Rivers.
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Sarah Williams-Devereux is a poet and teacher of writing. Her poetry has appeared in Snapdragon:
A Journal of Art & Healing, Sampsonia Way Magazine, Pittsburgh
City Paper; the anthologies Pittsburgh Love Stories and Nasty
Women & Bad Hombres; and WESA-FM’s Prosody. She leads poetry
workshops for the Madwomen in the Attic. She is certified in writing group
leadership from Amherst Writers & Artists and volunteers for the
Transformative Language Arts Network. She is pursuing her MA in teaching
writing from Johns
Hopkins University
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Open Mic (With Andy P., John Fantin, Ian Heiss, Kevin Finn, Mark Sepe & Marina Fec)
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