July 9, 2024 (Ashburn, Grieshober, Kitchens, McDermott & Yune)

 Hemingway's Poetry Series

July 9, 2024

Featured Readers

 

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Back Row: Robert Yune, Romella Kitchens, Kristofer Collins & Sharon Fagen McDermott

Front Row (L-R): Taylor Grieshober, Jen Ashburn & 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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Jen Ashburn is a poet and nonfiction writer. She’s the author of The Light on the Wall and has work published in numerous venues, including The Fiddlehead, The Writer’s Almanac, and Pedestal Magazine. She is the recipient of the 2023 Lori White Non-Fiction Fellowship and has been nominated for several Pushcart Prizes. Her current projects include a poetry manuscript, "Cracked Paraffin," and a memoir, "Borax, Cornmeal and Cherry Blossoms." She holds an MFA from Chatham University and lives in Edgewood.

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Taylor Grieshober earned an MFA in fiction from Oregon State University in 2018. Her short stories have most recently appeared in Joyland and the Columbia Review. You can find her debut story collection, Off Days (Low Ghost Press), at fine bookstores around the city. 

 

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Romella Kitchens has performed and read poetry with poets such as Ed Ochester, Terrance Hayes, Gerald Stern and many others. Her work has been published in Uppagus, Coal Hill Review, California Quarterly, Brevity, and numerous online publications including the University of Pittsburgh’s Hot Metal Bridge. For many years, she was a panel judge for the Pittsburgh level of Poetry Out Loud. She has published four chapbooks and has been anthologized in three Autumn House poetry collections. She holds two Masters Degrees in Education from the University of Pittsburgh and is a playwright as well as a poet. 

 

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Sharon Fagan McDermott is a poet and writer who teaches literature at a private school in Pittsburgh, PA. She has four collections of poetry published: Voluptuous; Alley Scatting (Parallel Press); and Bitter Acoustic (winner of 2011 Jacar Press chapbook competition) and a full manuscript, Life Without Furniture (Jacar Press, 2018). In November 2023, McDermott's book of hybrid essays about creative writing, co-authored with M. C. Benner-Dixon--Millions of Suns: On Writing and Life--was published by the University of Michigan Press (part of their “Writers on Writing” series). "Poets and Writers Magazine" just named it a "Best Book for Writers."

 

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As a Navy brat, Robert Yune moved 11 times by the time he turned 18.  After graduating from Pitt, he lived in Pittsburgh for the next 15 years. In the summer of 2012, he worked as a stand-in for George Takei and has appeared as an extra in commercials and movies such as Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and Fathers and Daughters. In 2009, he received a writing fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Yune won the 2017 Mary McCarthy Prize and his debut collection, Impossible Children, was published by Sarabande Books in 2018.

 

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