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 and son.
Arlan Hess is the owner of City Books. She hosts Shelf Life, a book show about Pittsburgh authors & topics relevant to western Pennsylvania, leads Arts & Literature tours around the old Allegheny West neighborhood, and directs the City Books Writer-in-Residence program for emerging & marginalized writers. With credits in food, music, and travel writing, her work has appeared in print and online in The Pittsburgh Quarterly, Connotation Press, The Literary Bohemian, atU2.com, and USA Today. She is a regular contributor to The Writer Shed, a podcast hosted by David W. Berner of WBBM/WXRT radio in Chicago.
Anne M. Rashid is a professor of English and director of Women's and Gender Studies at Carlow University. She has published poetry in Pittsburgh’s City Paper, Paterson Literary Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, The Fourth River and Sampsonia Way. She and her co-translator, the late Chae-Pyong Song, published translations of Korean poetry in multiple journals. Her essay, "Lucille Clifton's and Claudia Rankine's Elegiac Poetics of Nature" was recently published in Revisiting the Elegy in the Black Lives Matter Era.
Scott Silsbe was born in Detroit. He now lives in Wilkinsburg, Pennsylvania. His poems and prose have appeared in numerous periodicals and have been collected in four books: Unattended Fire, The River Underneath the City, Muskrat Friday Dinner, and Meet Me Where We Survive. He is also an assistant editor at Low Ghost Press.
Scott Silsbe Reads Jack Gilbert - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Bonita Lee Penn is a Pittsburgh poet, literary curator, author of Every Morning a Foot is Looking for my Neck (Central Square Press). Her work has been included in the anthology Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience (2022 Cherry Castle Publishing); The Massachusetts Review, Solstice: A Magazine of Diverse Voices, and others. She is a member of the experimental performance group Heroes Are Gang Leaders and Poetry facilitator for Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshop.
Celeste Gainey is the author of the GAFFER, cited by O, The Oprah Magazine as one of “8 New Books of Poetry to Savor” in 2015, as well as the chapbook, In the land of speculation & seismography. She has been a presenting poet at the Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, and served as the inaugural Poet Laureate of Allegheny County for City of Asylum from 2020-2022. Graduating with a BFA in Film & Television from New York University, as well as earning an MFA in Creative Writing/Poetry from Carlow University, Gainey was the first woman to be admitted to the International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees (IATSE) as a gaffer, and has spent many years working with light in film and architecture.
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.
Closing Remarks by Joan E. Bauer - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
The Entire Reading
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