July 25, 2023 (Barnett, Buccilli, Stroud & Williams-Devereux)

 

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Seated L-R: Christine Stroud, Kristofer Collins & Sarah Williams-Devereux
Standing L-R: Daniela Buccilli, Cameron Barnett & Joan Bauer

Special thanks to Jill Yeomans of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.

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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Sarah Williams-Devereux is the author of Of a Mother (Finishing Line Press, chapbook, forthcoming, 2023). Her poetry has appeared in multiple venues, including journals [F(r)ictionLog, Snapdragon], anthologies [Show Us Your Papers (Main Street Rag, 2020), Is It Hot in Here Or Is It Just Me? Women Over Forty Write on Aging (Social Justice Anthologies, 2019)], radio [Prosody, WESA-FM], and public art [Bridging the Gap/Analog Scroll, Westmoreland Museum of American Art]. She teaches poetry for the Madwomen in the Attic workshops at Carlow University. She is an apprentice training instructor for Amherst Writers & Artists writing group leadership and received her MA in teaching writing from Johns Hopkins University.

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Christine Stroud is a poet living in Pittsburgh, PA, and is the editor in chief of Autumn House Press. Her chapbook, The Buried Return, was released by Finishing Line Press in March of 2014, and her second chapbook, Sister Suite, was released from Disorder Press in 2017. Stroud’s poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Hobart, the Ninth Letter online, The Paterson Literary Review, Cimarron Review, The Laurel Review, and many others as well as several anthologies.

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Daniela Buccilli’s poetry can be found in Paterson Review, Northern Appalachian Review, Cimarron Review, and Voices in the Attic anthology. Her chapbook is What it Takes to Carry and she has co-edited Show Us Your Papers, a Poetry Anthology. She teaches at a local high school and has earned an MFA in poetry from Carlow University and one in fiction at the University of Pittsburgh. She serves her union as their secretary.

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Cameron Barnett is a Pittsburgh poet, teacher, and the Emerging Black Writer in Residence at Chatham University. He’s the author of The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water and Murmur, forthcoming from Autumn House Press. His work explores the complexity of relationships, race, and place for Black people in America, more of which can be found at cameronbarnett.net.

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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 (Turning Point), is now available.

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