July 27, 2021 (Grochalski, Harvey, Mohn-Slate, Taylor & Wilson)

 Hemingway's Poetry Series

July 27, 2021

 

Special thanks to Halsey Hyer of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this Zoom event.

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)

 

John Grochalski is the author of the poetry collections, 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 Press, 2018), and Eating a Cheeseburger During End Times (Kung Fu Treachery, 2021). He is also the author of the novels, The Librarian (Six Gallery Press 2013), and Wine Clerk (Six Gallery Press 2016). Grochalski currently lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Yona Harvey is the author of the poetry collections You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love (Four Way Books, 2020) and Hemming the Water (Four Way Books), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award.  She contributed to Marvel’s World of Wakanda and co-authored with Ta-Nehisi Coates Black Panther and the Crew.  She has worked with teenagers about mental health Issues in collaboration with Creative Nonfiction magazine. Her website is yonaharvey.com

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Emily Mohn-Slate is the author of THE FALLS, winner of the 2019 New American Poetry Prize (New American Press), and FEED, winner of the 2018 Keystone Chapbook Prize (Seven Kitchens Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, New Ohio Review, Muzzle Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She teaches high school English by day and poetry workshops by night for the Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University.

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William Taylor Jr. lives and writes in the Tenderloin neighborhood of San Francisco.  He is the author of numerous books of poetry, and a volume of fiction. His work has been published widely in journals across the globe, including Rattle, The New York Quarterly, and The Chiron Review. He is a five time Pushcart Prize nominee and was a recipient of the 2013 Kathy Acker Award. Pretty Things to Say, (Six Ft. Swells Press, 2020) is his latest collection of poetry.

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Lori Wilson is the author of the poetry collections House Where a Woman and The Dream Women Called, both from Autumn House Press. Her poems have appeared in journals such as Southern Poetry Review, Salamander, The Laurel Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review and Cimarron Review; and in various anthologies including, most recently, The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop (Diane Lockward, ed.). She holds an MA in Economics from Harvard University and an MFA in Poetry from Drew University. Wilson teaches a private poetry workshop in affiliation with the Madwomen in the Attic of Carlow University. She lives in Morgantown, West Virginia, where she works as a software developer.

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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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July 13, 2021 (Allen, Dorsey, Kasdorf, Lin, Wesley)

 

Hemingway's Poetry Series

July 13, 2021

 

Special thanks to White Whale Events Manager Anna Claire Weber for hosting and recording this Zoom event.

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)

 

Nikki Allen is a lover & a writer—hair an animal & heart clumsy tiger. She is the author of numerous books, including Quite Like Yes, and Ligaments of Light/Tigering the Shoulders (Night Ballet Press). Her work has appeared in Nailed, Crash, The New Yinzer, out of nothing, Profane Journal (Pushcart Prize nominee ‘14/’15) and Encyclopedia Destructica among others. Her newest poetry collection, Hotwire, will be released in spring 2021 via RiverDog Press. She believes in revolution, strong coffee, the hard knocks & the sweetness..

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John Dorsey is the author of several collections of poetry, including Teaching the Dead to Sing: The Outlaw's Prayer (Rose of Sharon Press, 2006), Sodomy is a City in New Jersey (American Mettle Books, 2010), Tombstone Factory (Epic Rites Press, 2013), Appalachian Frankenstein (GTK Press, 2015) Being the Fire (Tangerine Press, 2016) and Shoot the Messenger (Red Flag Press, 2017),Your Daughter's Country (Blue Horse Press, 2019),Which Way to the River: Selected Poems 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020) and The Prettiest Girl at the Dance (Blue Horse Press, 2020. His work has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, Best of the Net, and the Stanley Hanks Memorial Poetry Prize. He was the winner of the 2019 Terri Award given out at the Poetry Rendezvous. He may be reached at archerevans@yahoo.com.

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Julia Spicher Kasdorf is the author of four books of poetry: Sleeping Preacher, Eve’s Striptease, and Poetry in America—in the Pitt Poetry Series—and Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields.  She is now working with photographer Steven Rubin on Home Place, a documentary poetry project about the resiliency of farmers who live within 30 miles of her house in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Her poetry awards include the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize, the Great Lakes Colleges Association Award for New Writing, a Pushcart Prize, and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry. She is Liberal Arts Professor of English at Penn State, where she teaches creative writing. 

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Stephen Lin is one of the founders and editors for the new digital quarterly Everything in Aspic. His poetry has appeared in Pressure Gauge Press, Philosophical Idiot, the Edges zine, the Guts zine, and Pretty Owl Poetry. His chapbook Field Theory was a finalist in the Hyacinth Girl Press chapbook contest. He is an editor at an immigration law firm, and like most Pittsburghers, can’t cross running water.

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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is a Liberian civil war survivor who immigrated with her family to the United States in 1991. Her six books of poetry, When the Wanderers Come Home, Where the Road Turns, and the newly released, Praise Song for My Children: New and Selected Poems, among others. She is also the author of one children’s book, In Monrovia, the River Visits the Sea. Her works are known around the world as an exploration of the Liberian civil war, the Liberian and Grebo cultures, and a voice for women. Her poems have been featured in many magazines and anthologies, including Harvard Review, Transition, Prairie Schooner, The New York Times Magazine, among others, and her poetry has been translated to Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, and Finnish. She teaches English and Creative Writing at Penn State Altoona. 

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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

The Whole Nine Yards - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)

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