June 28, 2022 (Ashburn, Brice & Brice)

Featured Readers 

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Seated: Judy Brice

Standing L-R: Joan Bauer, Jen Ashburn, Kristofer Collins & Charlie Brice

Special thanks to Anna Claire Weber 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.

Note also that scheduled readers Sheila Squillante and John Repp were unable to attend.

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.

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Jen Ashburn is the author of the The Light on the Wall (Main Street Rag, 2016), and has work published in numerous venues, including The Fiddlehead, The Writer’s Almanac, and Pedestal Magazine. She holds an MFA through Chatham University and is a member of Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic workshops. She has taught creative writing in community workshops, and currently teaches first-year writing at Duquesne University.

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Judith Alexander Brice is a retired Pittsburgh psychiatrist whose love of nature and acquaintance with illness both in herself and others inform much of her work. She has had over 80 poems published in journals and anthologies, including The Golden Streetcar, Voxpopulisphere.com, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Magnolia Review.com, The Piker Press, and The Paterson Literary Review as well as Annals of Internal Medicine. Judy has authored four poetry books: Renditions in a Palette (2013), Overhead From Longing (2017), Imbibe the Air (January, 2021), as well as a chapbook, Shards of Shadows: A Covid Diary.

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Charlie Brice won the 2020 Field Guide Poetry Magazine Poetry Contest and placed third in the 2021 Allen Ginsberg Poetry Prize. His chapbook, All the Songs Sung (Angel Flight Press), his fourth poetry collection, The Broad Grin of Eternity (WordTech Editions), and Old Wood Shop co-authored with Jim Hutt, arrived in 2021. His poetry has been nominated twice for the Best of Net Anthology and three times for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in Chiron Review, The Honest Ulsterman, Ibbetson Street, The Paterson Literary Review, Impspired Magazine, Muddy River Poetry Review, and elsewhere.

 

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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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