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August 13, 2024 (Krygowski, Lee, Pajich, Penn & Simms)

Hemingway's Poetry Series

August 13, 2024

 Featured Readers

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Back Row: Kristofer Collins & Michael Simms
Front Row (L-R): Joan Bauer, Mary Soon Lee, Nancy Krygowski, Bonita Lee Penn & Bob Pajich

 

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. 

 

 

Nancy Krygowski is the author of The Woman in the Corner, named one of 2020’s top 100 poetry books by Library Journal, and Velocity, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She teaches in Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and is a member of the Pitt Poetry Series  editorial committee.

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Mary Soon Lee was born and raised in London, but has lived in Pittsburgh for thirty years. She is a Grand Master of the Science Fiction & Fantasy Poetry Association and a three-time winner of both the AnLab Readers’ Award and the Rhysling Award. Her latest books are from opposite shores of the poetry ocean: How to Navigate Our Universe, containing 128 astronomy poems, and The Sign of the Dragon, epic fantasy, winner of the Elgin Award. Her website, cryptically named, is marysoonlee.com

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Bob Pajich is a long-time creative writer from Pittsburgh. He runs the chapbook press Zigler Boy and writes poker news articles for money. His book of poems, The Trolleyman, was published by Low Ghost Press in 2015. His latest collection Panda Magic was published in 2020.

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Bonita Lee Penn, poet, recipient of the Advancing Black Arts in Pittsburgh grant for her project ‘Gospel in the Wake.’ She serves on the Sweetwater Center for Arts Board of Directors and their Artist Cohort Committee; managing editor of the Soul Pitt Quarterly Magazine; author of Every Morning a Foot is Looking for my Neck; The Trees Will Testify. Her work has appeared in literary journals and the anthology Where We Stand: Poems of Black Resilience. Penn is a Martha’s Vineyard Institute of Creative Writing Fello w and a Madwomen in the Attic workshop facilitator; sewist, B’s Bags LLC.

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Michael Simms is the founder/editor of Vox Populi, an online forum for poetry, politics and nature, as well as the founder/editor emeritus of Autumn House Press. He’s the author of three full-length collections of poetry published by Ragged Sky Press: American AshNightjar, and Strange Meadowlark. Simms has three novels published by Madville: Bicycles of the GodsThe Green Mage and Windkeep, and another novel The Blessed Isle is scheduled for release in late 2024. His poems have appeared in Poetry (Chicago), Poem-a-Day published by The Academy of American Poets, The Southwest ReviewBlack Warrior Review and Plume Poetry. He lives with his wife Eva in the historic neighborhood of Mount Washington overlooking the city of Pittsburgh.

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Open Mic

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