Tuesday, July 22, 2025

July 22, 2025 (Beeson, Davoudi, Ickes, Sineni & Walicki)

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Front Row: Bahar DavoudiAlyssa Sineni & Joan Bauer
Back Row (L-R): Lou Ickes, Kristofer Collins, Kelley Beeson & Robert Walicki

 
Kristofer Collins is the Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine as well as co-curator of Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife and two children. His latest poetry collection, "The Vesper Room" is forthcoming from Luchador Press.

 

(Note that the following audio clip picks up part way through Kristofer's recollections about Ozzy Osbourne.)   

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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. 

 

Kelley Beeson holds a Master of Fine Arts in Poetry from the University of Notre Dame and a Master of Library and Information Science from The University of Pittsburgh. She is the recipient of the 2023 Lefty Blondie Press Chapbook Award for her book, Undress. Her work appears in Kestrel, Four Way Review, Rogue Agent, Kaliope, and has been twice-nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Kelley grew up in Pittsburgh and left only once for graduate school. She lives in the city, works as a crackerjack librarian, and writes as a mad-proud member of the Madwomen in the Attic Writing Workshops since 1992.

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Bahar Davoudi is an Iranian-Canadian poet and writer based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work has been published in Voices from the AtticThe Poet, Barzakh Magazine, Writer’s Foundry Review, Fresh AirThe Gulf Tower Forecasts Rain Anthology and is forthcoming in Stone Poetry Quarterly. She is a member of (sub)Verses Social Collective as well as Madwomen in the Attic Workshop at Carlow University in Pittsburgh. Bahar is a scientist holding a PhD in Medical Biophysics.  

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Lou Ickes Luther grew up on the tough streets of West Hempfield. He majored in Philosophy at IUP’s world renowned Philosophy and Religious Studies department. Luther has no books or publications to his name. He enjoys painting. Luther writes whenever it’s time.  He once owned a bar [Brillobox], maybe he still does? For more: https://www.pittsburghmagazine.com/stories-of-our-neighbors-i-miss-the-wildness/ 

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Alyssa Sineni is an artist and writer. She is a member of Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange, The Porch Poets, The Pittsburgh Society of Artists, and The Craftsmen’s Guild of Pittsburgh. She has poems published in The Ekphrastic Review,; They Call Us, Uppagus, Voices from the Attic Vol 28 and Vox Populi.  In addition, Alyssa works as the Director of Programming for Art and Inspiration, a non-profit, which celebrates artists and writers.  

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Robert Walicki's poems have appeared in over 50 journals including Chiron Review and Vox Populi. A two-time Pushcart and a Best of The Net nominee, Robert's second chapbook. The Almost Sound of Snow Falling was included in the exhibition catalog for New York's Poet's House, and his latest full-length poetry collection is Fountain from Main Street Rag Press. His forthcoming poetry collection, Watershed, will be published by Broadstone Press. 

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Thursday, July 10, 2025

July 8, 2025 (Hyer, Langstroth, Nieson & Triplett)

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Front Row: Halsey HyerGail Langstroth & Joan Bauer
Back Row (L-R): Marc Nieson, Kristofer Collins & Steffan Triplett

 
Kristofer Collins is the Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine as well as co-curator of Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series. He lives in Stanton Heights with his wife and two children. His latest poetry collection, "The Vesper Room" is forthcoming from Luchador Press.

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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. 

 

Halsey Hyer (they/them) is the author of the full-length hybrid collection, Divorce Garter (Main Street Rag, 2024).Their micro chapbook of micro poems, Everything Becomes Bananas (Rinky Dink Press, 2022), was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2023, and their chapbook, [deadname] (Anhinga Press, 2022), won the 2022 Rick Campbell Chapbook Prize. Previously an MFA in Creative Writing candidate at Florida International University, they’re currently earning their MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University as the 2022-2024 Margaret L. Whitford Fellow. 

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Gail Langstroth. Raised under the Big Skies of Montana, Langstroth spent 38 years in Europe. She is a tri-lingual lecturer, international eurythmy performer, translator, poet, filmmaker, and visual artist. As a graduate of Drew University’s M.F.A. in poetry and winner of the Patricia Dobler Poetry Prize Langstroth’s book publications to date, firegarden / jardín-de-fuego (Get Fresh Books, 2020), and Ghost Friends in Praise of Jean Valentine (Lefty Blondie Press, 2025) are both bilingual. Her passions: Argentine Tango, writing with her feet, collage making, and cardinals. Her favorite fruit: ripe Spanish figs. www.wordmoves.com.

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Marc Nieson is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and NYU Film School. His background includes children’s theatre, cattle chores, and a season with a one-ring circus. His memoir is SCHOOLHOUSE: Lessons on Love & Landscape (Ice Cube Press). He’s received a Raymond Carver Short Story Award, Pushcart Prize nominations, and been noted in Best American Essays. He teaches at Chatham University’s MFA, edits The Fourth River, and is at work on the novel, HOUDINI’S HEIRS.  More @ www.marcnieson.com

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Steffan Triplett is the author of the hybrid memoir Bad Forecast (Essay Press 2024) and the essay chapbook Constraints (DIAGRAM/New Michigan Press 2024). His recent work is forthcoming or appears in ObsidianFoglifterPoetry Daily, and It Came From the Closet: Queer Reflections on Horror (Feminist Press 2022). He is the Managing Director of the Center for African American Poetry and Poetics and a Teaching Assistant Professor at the University of Pittsburgh. Steffan has been a fellow for Canem, Callaloo, Outpost, and Lambda Literary and has received support from Tin House, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, the Blue Mountain Center, and Advancing Black Arts Pittsburgh. 

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