Tuesday, May 1, 2018

May 1, 2018 (Madwomen in the Attic)

Hemingway's Poetry Series
May 1, 2018

Featured Readers
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Standing L-R: Tess Barry, Emily Mohn-Slate, Valerie Bacharach & Doralee Brooks
Seated L-R: Sara McNally, Bri Griffith, Jan Beatty, Daniela Buccilli & Joan Bauer 

Jan Beatty Introduces the Madwomen

Valerie Bacharach lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She conducts weekly poetry workshops for the women at Power House, a halfway house for women in recovery from drug and alcohol addiction. Her poetry has appeared in several publications including Pittsburgh Poetry Review, The Tishman Review, Topology Magazine, Voices from the Attic, and VerseWrights. Her first chapbook, Fireweed, will be published by Main Street Rag in 2018

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Tess Barry was shortlisted for the 2015 Manchester Poetry Prize. Twice a finalist for North American Review’s James Hearst Poetry Prize and Aesthetica Magazine’s Poetry Award, she was also shortlisted for the 2014 Bridport Poetry Prize. Her poems are widely published. She teaches at Robert Morris University and Carlow University. www.tessbarrypoet.com 

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Doralee Brooks teaches refresher courses at CCAC.  Her work has appeared in many journals including Voices from the Attic, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, and the Paterson Review.  Last fall, her poem, “Trending this Fall,” was published in Nasty Women and Bad Hombres, an anthology edited by Deena November and Nina Padoff (Lascaux Editions, 2017).

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Daniela Buccilli’s poetry appears or is forthcoming in Rogue AgentCimarron Review, Pittsburgh Poetry ReviewPaterson Literary Review, and Italian Americana. She is working on an MFA in poetry at Carlow. She teaches public high school near Pittsburgh. 

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Bri Griffith is an undergraduate Creative Writing student at Carlow University where she emcees the Red Dog Reading Series. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Pittsburgh Poetry Review, ITWOW International Anthology, Alien Mouth, Rogue Agent, Voices from the Attic Vol. XXII, and Vol. XXIII, and Nasty Woman & Bad Hombre: A Poetry Anthology.

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Sara McNally is a Creative Writing student at Carlow University where she studies with Jan Beatty and is the open mic emcee for The Red Dog Reading Series. McNally has been published in Pittsburgh Poetry Review and Rune. She had work in the Nasty Women & Bad Hombres anthology (Lascaux Editions, 2017). 

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Emily Mohn-Slate's poems and essays can be found in Crab Orchard Review, Adroit Journal, At Length, Indiana Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. Her manuscript, The Falls, was a finalist for the 2016 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize offered by University of Pittsburgh Press, and the 2017 Blue Light Book Prize offered by Indiana University Press/Indiana Review. She teaches creative writing at Chatham University and is a proud Madwoman. 

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Joan Bauer Closes With The Mending Wall by Robert Frost 

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