Tuesday, May 7, 2019

May 7, 2019 (Madwomen in the Attic)

Hemingway's Poetry Series
May 7, 2019

Featured Readers
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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 ReviewCider Press ReviewUS 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 PaperThe Main Street Rag, Cossack Literary Journal, Roar MagazineThe Broken PlateMeat 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 .

 
Open Mic (With Andy P., John Fantin, Ian Heiss, Kevin Finn, Mark Sepe & Marina Fec)
 
 

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