VenueSouth Side Presbyterian Church Coffee House 

Date03/21/2014 

Time7:30 PM - 9:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorSouth Side Presbyterian Church 

Cost $5.00
 

Description and Reader Names: The Coffee House at the South Side Presbyterian Church welcomes Spring on Friday, March 21, from 7:30 - 9 p.m., with poetry readings by two local award-winning poets, Angele Ellis and Mike Schneider. They will have books available for sale and signing.

Suggested $5 donation includes refreshments and candlelight conversation. Located at 20th and Sarah Streets (1926 Sarah), South Side. Phone 412-431-0118 for more information.

POET BIOS:
The first poem of Angele Ellis to be read in public was “A Manager’s Farewell,” composed for her father when she was ten years old. Since that time, Angele has practiced many forms of writing and editing, but poetry remains her first love. She is co-author of Dealing With Differences (Corwin Press), a diversity guidebook that has its roots in a 15-year involvement with Pittsburgh’s peace and justice community. (Angele is a seven-time civil disobedient.) She is author of Arab on Radar (Six Gallery Press), whose poems earned her an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and Spared (A Main Street Rag Editors’ Choice Chapbook). Her poetry, fiction, articles, and reviews have appeared in over forty publications and several anthologies, including Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013).

Mike Schneider began writing poetry in the early 1970s, when he opposed the Vietnam war and published an “underground newspaper” on an air force base in Ohio. He’s been a newspaper boy, night watchman (in a mushroom factory), washing-machine repairman, lawyer and science writer at Carnegie Mellon. He’s written award-winning articles in Pittsburgh Magazine, and his poetry book reviews appear in The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and City Paper. He received a 2003-04 Creative Artists Stipend in Arts Commentary from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. His poems have appeared in many journals, including Notre Dame Review, Shenandoah, Hunger Mountain and Poetry. His chapbook Rooster was a runner-up in the 2004 Main Street Rag chapbook competition. He received the 2012 Editors Award in Poetry from The Florida Review and was a finalist for the 2013 Mississippi Review Prize.

Contact the Venue with questions.

Address 11926 Sarah St. 

Address 2 

Address 3 

CityPittsburgh  

StatePA 

Zip15203 

Days/Hours of OperationCoffee House: Friday evenings, 7:30 pm. not all Fridays, by schedule 

Primary Contact PersonKathie Hamilton Vargo 

Primary Contact Email 

Telephone412-431-0118 

Website 

Facebook 

Twitter 

AuthorMike Schneider 

Websitehttp://www.mikeschneider11.blogspot.com/p/about.html 

Facebookhttps://www.facebook.com/mike.schneider.5099 

Twitter 

Short bio: Publications include a chapbook (Rooster, 2004) & more than 70 poems in journals, including New Ohio Review, Notre Dame Review & Poetry. He received the 2012 Editor's Award from Florida Review & was a finalist for the 2013 Mississippi Review Prize.