Tuesday, May 17, 2022

May 17, 2022 (Andrews, Bashaar, Esaias, Good, Mitchell)

 
 
 Featured Participants
 
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Seated L-R: Joan Bauer & Kristofer Collins 
Standing L-R: Timons Esaias, Mike Good, Kelly Lorraine Andrews, Margaret Bashaar & Gwendolyn A. Mitchell 
 
Special thanks to Halsey Hyer of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this 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, son and daughter.

Kelly Lorraine Andrews' poems have appeared in Dream Pop Journal, Ghost Proposal, Ninth Letter, PANK, and Prick of the Spindle, among others. She is the author of five chapbooks, including Sonnets in Which the Speaker Is on Display, The Fear Archives, and My Body Is a Poem I Can't Stop Writing. She received her MFA in poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. Along with her husband and two cats, she's tending to her garden, trying to be tender to herself.

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Margaret Bashaar is the author of Stationed Near the Gateway from Sundress Publications, along with numerous chapbooks. She is the founding editor of Hyacinth Girl Press and co-host/co-founder of the occasional anarchist poetry event, FREE POEMS.

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Timons Esaias is a satirist, writer and poet living in Pittsburgh. His works, ranging from literary to genre, have been published in twenty-two languages. He has also been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award, and twice won the Asimov's Readers Award. His story "Norbert and the System" has appeared in a textbook, and in college curricula. He was shortlisted for the 2019 Gregory O'Donoghue International Poetry Prize. His full-length Louis-Award-winning collection of poetry — Why Elephants No Longer Communicate in Greek — was brought out by Concrete Wolf.

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Mike Good lives in Pittsburgh and serves as managing editor at Autumn House Press. Some of his recent poetry can be found in or are forthcoming at Bennington Review, december, Five Points, Prolit, Ploughshares, Salamander, Terrain.org, Waxwing, and elsewhere, in addition to anthologies such as The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt Publishing). His work has received support from the Sewanee Writers' Conference and The Sun, and he holds an MFA from Hollins University. Find more at mikegoodwrites.wordpress.com.

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Gwendolyn A. Mitchell—poet, editor and literary consultant—is the former Senior Editor for Third World Press. Her poems have been published in journals such as American Review, Prairie Schooner, Poetry South and Essence Magazine. She has conducted workshops and seminars on poetry and the literary arts across the country. Mitchell is the author of the poetry collection, House of Women, and is the co-editor of two literary anthologies. She currently lives in Pittsburgh and is a member of and mentor for the Madwomen in the Attic community of writers.

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Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. 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. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season, is forthcoming from Turning Point in 2023.

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The Entire Reading

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