Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
July 26, 2011
Nour Abdelghani
Born in Alexandria,
Egypt, Nour Abdelghani
moved to Pittsburgh
in 2005. She is a 2010 graduate of the University of Pittsburgh
where she co-edited the Three Rivers Review
literary magazine and met a group of amazing writers. Her fiction has appeared
in issue 05 of Weave Magazine
and the second volume of The New Fraktur.
She was the recipient on the 2009 Myron Taube award in fiction and the 1st
prize, Prosody/Writer’s Café creative non-fiction award. Her non-fiction was
featured on WYEP’s Prosody in 2009.
David Adès has recently moved to Pittsburgh from Adelaide,
Australia.
He has been a member of Friendly Street Poets since 1979. His poems have
appeared widely in Australia
in publications including over 20 of the Friendly Street Poetry Readers and
numerous literary magazines such as Island,
Tirra Lirra, Wet Ink, Famous Reporter, Five Bells, Social Alternatives,
Verandah and Studio, with some poems also appearing in
translation in Vatra (Rumania).
He has appeared on the Australian radio poetry program Poetica, and is one of 9
poets featured on a CD titled “Adelaide
9.” His collection, Mapping the
World, was commended for the Fellowship of Australian Writers Anne
Elder Award 2008.
Marilyn Bates, author of It Could Drive You Crazy,
was a "Poet in Person" with the International Poetry Forum. She was an
invited reader at the Noontime Reading Series at the Library of Congress in Washington, DC
and at the James Wright Poetry Festival. Her work has appeared in The
MacGuffin, The Paterson
Literary Review, One Trick Pony, Poet Lore, and The Potomac Review.
Her work is anthologized in Pass-Fail: 32 Stories about Teaching; My
Aunties' Book: 35 Writers Talk About Their Other Mother; Voices in Italian
Americana; Along These Rivers and What Rough Beast: Poems at the End of the
Century. Her one-act play, Life Without Nipples, was produced by the
Pittsburgh New Works Theater Festival in 2007. Her dramatic monologues
were recited by Etta Cox in Womanscene, a fund-raising event for the Lupus
Foundation.
Jerome Crooks began writing poetry in
1993 in Buffalo New York. After finishing high school
in Chesapeake VA
in 1996, he moved to Pittsburgh, his father's
home city, where he completed a BA in creative writing focusing on poetry at
the University of
Pittsburgh. He is
the son of Jerry and Mary Anne Crooks, brother to Theresa Leonard,
brother-in-law to John Leonard, and proud uncle of Aeden. He also
co-authored, with Jason Baldinger, The
Whiskey Rebellion (Six Gallery Press, 2011), has edited a book for
Encyclopedia Destructica, and runs a literary press, Speed and Briscoe, based
in Pittsburgh.
Edna Machesney is a past president of the Pittsburgh Poetry
Society, and is a frequent reader at their events. Her poetry is short
and lyrical. One of her haiku won an international haiku competition in Japan.
Deena November graduated SUNY
Binghamton in 2005 with a BA in Creative Writing, Poetry and received her MFA
in Creative Writing, Poetry from Carlow
University in April 2009.
In 2005 she co-edited the anthology, I Just
Hope It's Lethal, for Houghton Mifflin. Her poems have also
appeared in Pittsburgh City Paper,
Pittsburgh Post Gazette, and Warbler. Deena lives in Pittsburgh’s North Side with her husband and
dog.
Fred Peterson grew up on Arkansas rice farms in
the 1940s and 1950s and uses rural farmboy experiences to relive those
days. A resident of Pittsburgh
for twenty-five years, he is a member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Society and has
been working on a chapbook for longer than he cares to remember.
Lucille T. Seibert has lived in New York
and Massachusetts. For
the past 35 years, she has made her home in Pittsburgh, PA.
She studied with Pat Dobler as part of the Madwomen in the Attic program, and
currently is a member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. The Unattended Kitchen Sink is her first
book of poems, written over the past 54 years.
Ron Smits is Emeritus Professor of English at Indiana University
of Pennsylvania. His book of poems, Push,
was published by the University
of Scranton Press in
2009.
Christine Telfer is a founding editor of Invisible River
Publishing, and for some years was editor and publisher of The Exchange. A returned Peace
Corps volunteer from Bulgaria,
she now teaches English as a Second Language in Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in
numerous publications, including Artcrimes
20, Main Street
Rag, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Quarterly,
Whiskey Journal and other journals and periodicals.
Don Wentworth writes poetry in the short form and has had
work published in bear creek haiku, Rolling Stone, Modern Haiku, bottle
rockets, The New Yinzer, Cotyledon, Encylopedia Destructica, and the
anthologies Prairie Smoke and To Life. His first
full-length volume, Past All Traps, was published by Six Gallery Press
in 2011.
Bob Ziller is an artist, poet, translator, and
singer. His translation of Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo's Translated from the Night, the
first English rendering of a complete text by the "pure African
surrealist” of Madagascar--was praised by Dr. Henry Louis Gates:
"These translations read beautifully." Ziller's artwork has
been widely displayed in streets, galleries and museums around the US. As
a singer and lyricist, he has recorded with the bands, Bingo Quixote and Media
Circus Extravaganza!- with the MCE! Song, "Waterboarding," garnering
attention as a GaraeBand.com Track of the Day.
Jimmy Cvetic has been writing and
performing poetry all his life. A retired county police officer, he is the
director of the Pittsburgh Police Athletic League, and founder and
director of the Summer Poetry Series at Hemingway's Cafe in Oakland. His poems have appeared in the
Pittsburgh-Post Gazette and other publications. His first
full-length book of poetry, Secret Society
of Dog, was published in 2010.
