July 16, 2019 (LoTempio, Russell & Emanuel)

Hemingway's Poetry Series

July 16, 2019

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Standing L-R: Lynn Emanuel & Joan Bauer

Seated L-R: Lauren Russell, Kristofer Collins & Lucia LoTempio

Charlie Deitch (yes, that Charlie Deitch) Opens With a Poem by Jimmy Cvetic

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Lucia LoTempio is the author of Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books 2020). She hails from Buffalo, NY and left to earn an MFA in poetry at the University of Pittsburgh. You can find her poems in Passages North, The Journal, TYPO, Quarterly West, as part of the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series, and elsewhere. With Suzannah Russ Spaar, she co-authored the chapbook Undone in Scarlet (Tammy 2019). Lucia still lives and writes in Pittsburgh, and she works at City of Asylum as a program manager.

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Lauren Russell, assistant director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics, is a research assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Her first full-length book, What’s Hanging on the Hush, was published by Ahsahta Press in 2017. A Cave Canem fellow, she was the 2014-2015 Jay C. and Ruth Halls Poetry Fellow at the Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing, the 2016 VIDA Fellow to the Home School, and she was recently awarded a 2017 Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts. Russell's chapbook Dream-Clung, Gone came out from Brooklyn Arts Press in 2012, and her work has appeared in boundary 2, The Brooklyn Rail, jubilat, Tarpaulin Sky, Bettering American Poetry 2015, among others. Russell holds an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh, where she served as co-editor-in-chief of Hot Metal Bridge and received a Distinguished Teaching Award in the English Department.

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Lynn Emanuel is the author of five books of poetry, Hotel Fiesta, The Dig, Then, Suddenly--, Noose and Hook, and, most recently, The Nerve Of It : Poems New and Selected. Her work has been featured in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Poetry numerous times and is included in The Oxford Book of American Poetry. She has been a judge for the National Book Awards and has taught at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference, The Warren Wilson Program in Creative Writing, and the Bennington College Low Residency MFA program. She is the recipient of numerous awards including two fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, The National Poetry Series Award, the Eric Matthieu King Award from The Academy of American Poets and most recently, a fellowship from the Ranieri Foundation. She is Professor Emerita of the Writing Program in the Department of English at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Open Mic (With Stuart Sheppard, Harmony Mohr, Paul Z & Don Krieger) 

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