VenueCity of Asylum/Pittsburgh 

Date08/06/2014 

Time6:00 PM - 7:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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Description and Reader Names: Jeff Oaks and Jenny Johnson


Jeff Oaks is the author of three chapbooks, Shift (Seven Kitchens Press, 2010), The Moon of Books (Ultima Obscura Press, 2000), and The Unknown Country (State Street Press, 1992). His newest chapbook, Mistakes with Strangers, is forthcoming from Seven Kitchens Press. He has published poems in literary magazines including Field, Court Green, Zocalo, Public Square, Poemeleon, Ploughshares, and Bloom. His essays have appeared in Creative Nonfiction and My Diva: 65 Gay Men Write about the Women Who Inspire Them. He’s the recipient of three fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, an Individual Artist fellowship from the Pittsburgh Foundation, and the 2008 winner of the Tina and David Bellet Arts and Sciences Teaching Excellence Award.

Jenny Johnson’s poems appear in Best American Poetry 2012, Troubling the Line: Trans & Genderqueer Poetry & Poetics, New England Review, The Collagist, Blackbird, and elsewhere. She was the recipient of the 2011 Chad Walsh Poetry Prize for her poem “Aria”. She has also been awarded scholarships to the Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference, as well as a residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts. After earning a Master of Teaching degree from the University of Virginia, she taught public school for several years in the Bay Area, and she spent ten summers on the staff of the University of Virginia Young Writer’s Workshop. She earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College. Currently, she is a Lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh where she teaches writing.

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