VenueCommonplace Coffee Co. 

Date07/26/2012 

Time8:00 PM - 9:30 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorCommonplace Coffee Co. 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: The editor of the literary journal Menacing Hedge (http://menacinghedge.com/), Kelly Boyker, will be visiting Pittsburgh, and we've gathered together some local Menacing Hedge contributors for a very Pittsburgh reading with her at Commonplace Coffee House in Squirrel Hill!

Join us for poetry by Crystal Hoffman, Daniel Shapiro, Margaret Bashaar, Juliet Cook, and Kelly Boyker.

Crystal Hoffman was raised by a truck driver bikers in the woods outside of a dead mining town in Pennsylvania.Thus explaining why her most important accomplishments to date are having broken doors and been reprimanded for climbing trees on three continents and nearly freeing a monkey within one week of assuming her first full-time teaching post. In terms of putting ink on paper, she is faculty editor of Rusted Radishes: The Beirut Literary and Arts Review and an editorial adviser for Patasola Press. Her poems have appeared in journals such as 3AM, A Cappella Zoo, and Arsenic Lobster and are forthcoming in Menacing Hedge. She co-founded and directed the performance troupe The TypewriterGirls with Hyacinth Girl Press editor Margaret Bashaar, for five years and Marcel Janco-style is still attempting to induce the Cabaret Voltaire spirit in the Middle East. She teaches creative writing and literature at the American University of Beirut in Lebanon.

Daniel M. Shapiro is a schoolteacher who lives in Pittsburgh. He is the author of The 44th-Worst Album Ever (NAP) and Teeth Underneath (FootHills Publishing). He is the co-author of Interruptions (Pecan Grove Press), a collection of collaborations with Jessy Randall. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Chiron Review, Gargoyle, RHINO, Sentence, Barge Journal, and Forklift, Ohio. His poetry website is http://littlemyths-dms.blogspot.com/

Margaret Bashaar's second chapbook, Letters from Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel, was published by Blood Pudding Press in 2011 and her first chapbook, Barefoot and Listening, was released by Tilt Press in 2009. Her poetry has also appeared in or is forthcoming from journals such as Caketrain, RHINO, New South, Menacing Hedge, and elimae, among others. She edits the chapbook micropress Hyacinth Girl Press, and collects antique typewriters, which she is forever telling herself she will learn how to repair, but has promised the ghosts that live in them that they can stick around. She pretty much has a poetry crush on every one of the other poets in this reading.

Juliet Cook’s poetry has appeared within Action Yes, Barn Owl Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Diagram, Diode and many more print and online entities. She is the editor/publisher of Blood Pudding Press (print) and Thirteen Myna Birds (online). Juliet’s first full-length poetry book, ‘Horrific Confection’ was published by BlazeVOX. She also has oodles of published poetry chapbooks, most recently including FONDANT PIG ANGST (Slash Pine Press), Tongue Like a Stinger (Wheelhouse), POST-STROKE (Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 5) and Thirteen Designer Vaginas (Hyacinth Girl Press) with another new chapbook, POISONOUS BEAUTYSKULL LOLLIPOP, coming soon from Strange Cage. She is currently submitting her second full-length poetry book.

Kelly Boyker lives in Seattle, Washington and wishes it really would rain every day, as the myth goes. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in such places as Opium Magazine, PANK, Prick-of-the-Spindle, Scythe, FriGG, Apercus Quarterly as well as many other journals. She has an e-chapbook forthcoming from INS Press in 2012 has just finished partaking in the collaborative anthology Fainting Couch Idioglossia from Blood Pudding Press. She is a co-editor at www.menacinghedge.com. In her spare time she rides her horse Shadowmere through the lands of Skryim where she is the leader of the Dark Brotherhood and the head mage at the College in Winterhold.

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Short bio: Daniel M. Shapiro is a schoolteacher who lives in Squirrel Hill. He is the author of The 44th-Worst Album Ever and Teeth Underneath, and co-author of Interruptions, a collection of collaborations with Jessy Randall.