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Note that a link for the entire reading is available at the bottom of this post.
Kristofer Collins is the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-curator of The Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book The River Is Another Kind of Prayer: New & Selected Poems was published in 2020 by Kung Fu Treachery Press. His latest project, The Pittsburgh Book Review can be found at https://pittsburghbookreview.blogspot.com/. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife and son.
Opening Comments by Kristofer Collins - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Dilruba Ahmed is the author Bring Now the Angels (Pitt Poetry Series, 2020), with poems featured in New York Times Magazine, Best American Poetry 2019, and podcasts such as The Slowdown with Tracy K. Smith and Poetry Unbound with Pádraig Ó Tuama. Her debut book of poetry, Dhaka Dust (Graywolf Press, 2011), won the Bakeless Prize. Ahmed’s poems have appeared in Kenyon Review, New England Review, and Ploughshares. Her poetry has also been anthologized in Literature: The Human Experience; Border Lines: Poems of Migration; The Orison Anthology 2020; and elsewhere. Ahmed is the recipient of The Florida Review’s Editors’ Award, a Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Prize, and the Katharine Bakeless Nason Fellowship in Poetry awarded by the Bread Loaf Writers Conference. Ahmed has taught with the MFA programs at Chatham University and Warren Wilson College. www.dilrubaahmed.com
"Bring Now the Angels"; "Phase One"; "Choke"; and "View-Master Virtual Reality Starter Pack: Mortality Reel" from Bring Now the Angels by Dilruba Ahmed, Copyright 2020. All rights are controlled by the University of Pittsburgh Press, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. Used by permission of the University of Pittsburgh Press.
Dilruba Ahmed - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Sheila Carter-Jones has been described by Herbert Woodward Martin as one who writes with "immediacy of tone, voice and language." Much of her work to date charts in images and music the lived experiences of a small-town girl brought up in a house across from the boney dump of Republic Steel Coal Mines outside of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She has been published in Pennsylvania Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Tri-State Anthology, Blair Mountain Press and Flights. Grace Cavalieri, producer and host of "The Poet and the Poem from the Library of Congress" says that Sheila's recent book Blackberry Cobbler Song premiers a narrative poet in the greatest tradition of American storytellers.
Sheila Carter-Jones - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Jeff Oaks' debut book of poetry, Little What, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in September 2019. A recipient of three Pennsylvania Council of the Arts fellowships, Oaks has published poems in a number of literary magazines, most recently in Best New Poets, Field, Georgia Review, Missouri Review, Superstition Review, and Tupelo Quarterly. His prose has appeared in At Length, Creative Nonfiction, Fourth Genre, Kenyon Review Online, and Water~Stone Review. Both his poems and prose have appeared in the anthologies Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Nonfiction, and My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them. He teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh.
Jeff Oaks - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, a native New Yorker, taught creative writing,
Classical Literature, World Mythology, and founded a Myth/Folklore Studies
Center at IUP. She co-edited the prize-winning Life
on the Line, and is the author of Going to Bed Whole, Tottering Palaces, The
Approximate Message, and In the Fall of a Sparrow. She has read her poems in Ireland, Greece,
Mexico, Israel, Spain,
and Bratislava
and has collaborated on 20 pieces with composers and other artists. Her poems
have been translated into Japanese, Slovak and Hebrew. She has received grants
from the National Endowment and the Witter Bynner Foundations and was awarded
the Distinguished Faculty Award in the Arts. She is the facilitator of Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill
Poetry Workshop.
www.squirrelhillpoets.org. In 2012 Tebot Bach published her latest book of
poems, I Want to Thank My Eyes.
Rosaly DeMaios Roffman - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. She curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her second full-length book of poetry, The Camera Artist, was published by Turning Point in 2021.
Closing Remarks by Joan E. Bauer - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)The Entire Reading
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