Featured Readers
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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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Deborah Bogen’s books of poems are Speak Now This Charm (Jacar Press, 2022), In Case of Sudden Free Fall (Jacar Press), Let Me Open You a Swan (Elixir Press), Landscape With Silos (Texas Review Press), and Living By The Children’s Cemetery (Byline Press). She lives in Pittsburgh where she balances the poet’s life with grassroots political responsibility and music.
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Judith Vollmer’s sixth book of poetry, The Sound Boat: New and Selected Poems, is the Four Lakes Prize selection for 2022 from the University of Wisconsin Press. Other awards include an NEA poetry fellowship, the Brittingham and the Cleveland State University Press prizes, and finalist honors for the Paterson Prize. Her poems, essays, and reviews have appeared in Plume, The Georgia Review, Agni, Poetry International, The Women’s Review of Books, and elsewhere.
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Mike Schneider began writing during the Vietnam War when, while serving at an air force base in Ohio, he published an anti-war “underground” newspaper. He has practiced law, worked as a science writer, won awards for magazine writing, and written book reviews and essays on culture for several publications. Three times nominated for the Pushcart Prize, his poems appear in literary journals, anthologies and three chapbooks. He received the 2012 Editors Award from The Florida Review and the 2016 Robert Phillips Prize from Texas Review Press. The Hungry Hill Writing Group in West Cork, Ireland awarded Schneider second prize in its Poets Meet Politics 2022 International Open. His full-length collection Spring Mills is forthcoming in early 2023.
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Ace Boggess is author of six books of poetry, including Escape Envy (Brick Road Poetry Press, 2021), I Have Lost the Art of Dreaming It So, and The Prisoners. His writing has appeared in Michigan Quarterly Review, Notre Dame Review, Harvard Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. An ex-con, he lives in Charleston, West Virginia, where he writes and tries to stay out of trouble. His seventh collection, Tell Us How to Live, is forthcoming in 2024 from Fernwood Press.
Ace was, unfortunately, unable to participate in this reading.
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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