Tuesday, May 28, 2024

May 28, 2024 (Barnett, Fisanick, Irwin, Sankey & Hoot)

 

Hemingway's Poetry Series

May 28, 2024

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Back Row (L-R): Christina Fisanick, Cameron Barnett, Byron Hoot & Kristofer Collins
Front Row (L-R): Joan Bauer, Shannon Sankey and Jason Irwin

Kristofer Collins is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Low Ghost Press founded in 2008 and the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is also the co-curator of the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book, Roundabout Trace, was published in 2022 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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Joan E. Bauer is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Fig Season (Turning Point, 2023), The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2021), and The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). Recent work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream and Chiron Review. She divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA where she co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. 

 

Cameron Barnett is a poet and teacher from Pittsburgh. He is the author of The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water, the winner of the Autumn House Press Rising Writer Prize and a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. He is a graduate of Duquesne University and earned an MFA in creative writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Other honors include a 2019 Carol R. Brown Creative Achievement Award for Emerging Artist and serving as the ’22-’24 Emerging Black Writer in Residence at Chatham University. Cameron teaches at his middle school alma mater, Falk Laboratory School. His work explores the complexity of race, place, and relationships for Black people in America. His second full length book of poetry, Murmur, was published by Autumn House Press in 2024.

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Christina Fisanick is the editor or author of more than thirty books, including the memoir The Optimistic Food Addict (MSI 2016) and Digital Storytelling as Public History (Routledge 2020) with co-author Robert Stakeley. In addition, her poems, essays, and articles have appeared in a broad range of publications. She is passionate about the history of her hometown, Wheeling, WV, which is the subject of her forthcoming collection of essays, Pulling the Thread: Untangling Wheeling History.  When not writing or making art, Dr. Fisanick serves as professor of English at PennWest, the president of the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia (WANA), and the co-host of WANA LIVE! Learn more about her work at christinafisanick.com.

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Shannon Sankey is the author of WE RAN RAPTUROUS (The Atlas Review, 2019). She holds an MFA in Poetry and Pedagogy from Chatham University, where she was the Margaret L. Whitford Fellow. She is the recipient of a 2017 Academy of American Poets University & College Prize and a 2019 SAFTA Residency, and she was selected for Best New Poets 2019.

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Jason Irwin is the author of three full-length poetry collections, most recently The History of Our Vagrancies (Main Street Rag, 2020). In 2022 he was a Zoeglossia Fellow and part of the Poetry Foundation’s Disability Poetics Project. His nonfiction has been published in Santa Ana Review, Panorama, The Catholic Worker, and City of Asylum’s Pittsburgh Live/Ability: Encounters in Poetry and Prose Project. He grew up in Dunkirk, NY, and now lives in Pittsburgh. https://jasonirwin.blogspot.com/

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Byron Hoot was born and raised in Morgantown, WV, and he lived there until he went to college, a 12-year excursion. He never returned to West Virginia but he never left it. Appalachia, the hills and streams, the people, his memory of those first 18 years are deeply embedded. He now lives in northwestern Pennsylvania . . . still in Appalachia, continuing his work as a published poet. His work has appeared in Rattle, The Watershed Journal, Tobacco Literary Arts Journal, and The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. He is co-founder of The Tamarack Writers and The Fernwood Writers Retreat. His most recent book is Poems of a Mad Hunter and Other Tales (2023). For more, go to www.hootnhowlpoetry.com

 
 
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Saturday, May 18, 2024

May 18, 2024 (Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange 50th Anniversary)

 

Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange

50th Anniversary Celebration

May 18, 2024
 
 Featured Readers
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Standing - Left to right: Nick Romeo, Arlene Weiner, Erik Rosen, Mary Tisera,  Alyssa Sineni, Dora Odarenko, Joe Kaldon, Michael Comiskey, Dieter Weslowski, Clark Muenzer, Emily De Ferrari, Walt Peterson, Charles Lanigan & Stuart Sheppard. 

Seated – Left to Right: Rachel Ann Bovier, Gerard Furey, Judith Dorian, Michael Wurster, Shaheen Dil, Elyse Power, Joan E. Bauer & Ziggy Edwards
 
 

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Tuesday, May 14, 2024

May 14, 2024 (Beatty, Gwin, Heinlen, Pritts & Shaw)

 

Hemingway's Poetry Series

May 14, 2024

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Back Row (L-R): Ben Gwin, Fred Shaw & Kristofer Collins
Front Row (L-R): Jan Beatty, Hallie Pritts, Amy Lee Heinlen & Joan Bauer

Kristofer Collins is the publisher and editor-in-chief of Low Ghost Press founded in 2008 and the longtime Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine. He is also the co-curator of the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. His latest book, Roundabout Trace, was published in 2022 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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Joan E. Bauer is the author of three full-length poetry collections, Fig Season (Turning Point, 2023), The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2021), and The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). Recent work has appeared in Paterson Literary Review, Slipstream and Chiron Review. She divides her time between Venice, CA and Pittsburgh, PA where she co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. 

 

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Jan Beatty’s eighth book, Dragstripping, is forthcoming from the University of Pittsburgh Press, September 2024. Her memoir, American Bastard, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award. Recent books include The Body Wars and a chapbook, Skydog (Lefty Blondie Press, 2022). Other work includes Jackknife: New and Selected Poems (University of Pittsburgh, 2018 Paterson Prize) named by Sandra Cisneros on LitHub as her favorite book of 2019. Beatty worked as a waitress, abortion counselor, and in maximum security prisons. She is Professor Emerita at Carlow University, where she directed creative writing, the Madwomen in the Attic workshops, and the MFA program. 

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Ben Gwin is the author of the novel, Clean Time (Burrow Press), and the book, Team Building: A Memoir about Family and the Fight for Workers’ Rights (Belt). He was also the editor of the anthology, The Pittsburgh Neighborhood Guidebook (Belt). Ben’s fiction and essays have appeared in The Rumpus, Normal School, Lit Hub, and others. He lives in Pittsburgh with his child.

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Amy Lee Heinlen is a poet and publisher based in Western Pennsylvania. She’s the author of the chapbook, All Else Falls to Shadow (Dancing Girl Press). Her poems are published in a variety of journals, including Literary Mama, poets.org, Rogue Agent, Stirring: A Literary Collective, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, and elsewhere. Heinlen is co-founder and editor of Lefty Blondie Press, an independent publisher promoting the work of self-identifying women and non-binary poets. Heinlen is the recipient of an Academy of American Poets University and College prize and Best Thesis in Poetry prize from Chatham University. 

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Hallie Pritts is a writer from western Pennsylvania. Her fiction is equal parts romp and social commentary: eccentric characters—including UFO-believers and the ghost of a 1970s rock star—navigate class struggles, a rapidly changing ecology, an ever-uncertain future, and the defining question of what it means to be free. Pritts’ literary thriller-in-progress is a finalist for the 2023 Claymore Award. Her short work can be found in McSweeney’s, The Belladonna, Points in Case, Frazzled, The Fourth River, and Off Assignment, among others. She’s a reader for The Barcelona Review.

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Fred Shaw was named Emerging Poet Laureate Finalist for Allegheny County in 2020. He is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, and Carlow University, where he received his MFA. A Visiting Lecturer of Creative Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, he curates the “PQ Poem” feature for Pittsburgh Quarterly where he also reviews books. His first collection, Scraping Away, was published by CavanKerry Press. A second collection is forthcoming.

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