Featured Participants
Seated: Karen Lillis
Standing L-R: Joan Bauer, Robert Yune, Brittany Hailer & Taylor Greishober
Special thanks to Halsey Hyer of White Whale Bookstore for hosting and recording this event.
Note that a link for the entire reading is available at the bottom of this post.
Note also that Kristofer Collins is off this evening so Joan Bauer provides the opening comments.
Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008) and The Camera Artist (Turning Point, 2020). For some years, she was a teacher and counselor in public and independent schools. In 2007, she won the Earle Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International and in 2018, she was a finalist for the John Ciardi Poetry Prize from BkMk Press. Since 2001, more than 250 of her poems have been published and three have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Joan co-curates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series with Kristofer Collins. Her new book of poetry, Fig Season, is forthcoming from Turning Point in 2023.
Opening Comments by Joan Bauer - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Brittany Hailer has taught creative writing classes at the Allegheny County Jail and Sojourner House as part of Chatham’s Words Without Walls program and now teaches creative writing and journalism at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in NPR, Fairy Tale Review, Sierra Club Magazine, Barrelhouse, and elsewhere. She is the director of the Pittsburgh Institute for Nonprofit Journalism.
Brittany Hailer - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Taylor Grieshober is a fiction writer and educator based in Pittsburgh, PA.
She holds an MFA in fiction from Oregon
State University
and her debut short story collection, Off
Days, was released by Low Ghost Press in 2019.
Taylor Grieshober - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Karen Lillis is a bookseller and the author of four novellas, most recently, Watch the Doors as They Close (Spuyten Duyvil). She writes in a variety of forms, including poetry, poetic prose, and memoir. She received a 2014 Acker Award for Avant Garde Excellence in Fiction, and currently makes her home in Pittsburgh, Pa. Find her work at Karen’s Book Row.
Karen Lillis - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
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.
Robert Yune - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
Closing Remarks
Closing Remarks by Joan E. Bauer - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
The Entire Reading
The Whole Thing - Click to Play (Right-Click to Download)
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