VenueWigle Whiskey Barrelhouse 

Date08/14/2014 

Time5:00 PM - 12:00 AM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Come join us on Thursday, August 14th as we help break in the NEW Wigle location on the North Side with fun, frivolity and poetry!

Featuring Jennifer Jackson Berry, Wendy Scott Paff and Robert Walicki

Books will be available for signing at the reading.

Mixer: 5-6:00
Reading to begin around 6:15

BIOS
Jennifer Jackson Berry is the author of the chapbooks When I Was a Girl (Sundress Publications 2014) and Nothing But Candy (Liquid Paper Press 2003). Her poems have appeared in journals such as Harpur Palate, Connotation Press, 5AM, and Nerve Cowboy, as well as the Pittsburgh City Paper and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is an Assistant Editor for WomenArts Quarterly Journal.

Wendy Scott has taught composition and creative writing at a variety of colleges and other institutions, including a women’s halfway house. She has also worked as a social worker and a communications writer. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Paterson Literary Review, Fourth River, Oakland Review, Pittsburgh Quarterly, Voices from the Attic, Pittsburgh City Paper, and Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work, among others. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA.

Robert Walicki's debut chapbook is A Room Full Of Trees (Redbird Press). His work has appeared in Blast Furnace,Stone Highway Review, Pittsburgh City Paper, HEArt, Grasslimb, and on the radio show Prosody.Most recently,he has won first runner up in Finishing Line Press' Open Chapbook Competition in 2013 and was awarded finalist in the Concrete Wolf Chapbook Competition(2013).He lives in Pittsburgh where he curates a monthly reading series,VERSIFY.

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Address 11055 Spring Garden Ave.  

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CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15212 

Days/Hours of OperationThur & Fri 5-9 PM Sat 12-9 PM Sun 11 AM-4 PM  

Primary Contact PersonJill, Lauren or Meredith 

Primary Contact Emailjill@wiglewhiskey.com 

Telephone(412) 224-2827 

Websitehttp://www.wiglewhiskey.com/whiskey-garden 

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Websitehttp://www.cityofasylumpittsburgh.org 

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