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Hemingway's 2011 Summer Poetry Series
Venue
Hemingway's Cafe
Date
06/28/2011
Time
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM
Event Type
Reading
Genre
Poetry
Sponsor
Cost
$0.00
Description and Reader Names: Tuesdays May through July
3911 Forbes Avenue (in the back room) Oakland
Free and open to the public.
A 21+ series. Jim Cvetic hosts. Poet bios available by email on request: JBauer103w@aol.com
June 28 - Walt Peterson, Judith Robinson, Sankar Roy & Arlene Weiner
Judith Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer and poet. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she has been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She was editor of Living Inland, author of The Beautiful Wife and Other Stories; poetry editor of Signatures. She currently teaches poetry in the ALL Program at Carnegie Mellon University. She is editor of Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts), and co-editor with Michael Wurster of Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant). Her chapbook, Dinner Date, will be published by Finishing Line Press in July 2009.
Sankar Roy, originally from India, is a poet, translator, activist and multimedia artist living near Pittsburgh, PA. He is a winner of PEN USA Emerging Voices, author of three chapbooks, Moon Country, The House My Father Could Not Build and Matra of the Bornfree (all from Pudding House). He is associate editor of Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Rupa & Co, India and Bayeux Arts, Canada, 2005). Sankar's poems have appeared or are forthcoming in over 50 literary journals including Bitter Oleander, Crab Orchard Review, Connecticut Review, Harpur Palate, Icon, Runes, Rhino, Tampa Review, and Poetry Magazine. His full length book of poetry, Moon Country, will be published later this year by Tebot Bach.
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Primary Contact Person
Joan Bauer
Primary Contact Email
JBauer103w@aol.com
Telephone
412 498-7876
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Number of readers on program
Is this an open mic event?
Yes
Is this a book signing?
Yes
Will author's books be for sale?
Yes
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Address 1
3911 Forbes Avenue
Address 2
Address 3
City
Pittsburgh
State
PA
Zip
15213
Days/Hours of Operation
Mon-Fri: 11AM-2AM Saturday: 6PM-2AM Sunday: CLOSED
Primary Contact Person
Primary Contact Email
drjmchem@zoominternet.com
Telephone
412-621-4100
Website
http://www.hemingways-cafe.com/
Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hemingways-Cafe/43656360946
Twitter
http://twitter.com/HemsOakland
Author Information
Author
Joan E. Bauer
Website
www.mainstreetrag.com www.squirrelhillpoets.org
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Short bio: Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag, 2008). With Judith Robinson and Sankar Roy, she co-edited Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts, 2005). With Jim Cvetic, she co-facilitates the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series in Pittsburgh.
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