VenueSt Andrew's Episcopal Church 

Date10/26/2012 

Time8:00 PM - 12:00 AM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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Jan Beatty’s latest book, Red Sugar, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press and was a finalist for the 2009 Paterson Poetry Prize. Other books include Boneshaker (U. of Pgh. Press, 2002), finalist for the Milton Kessler Award, Mad River, winner of the 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and a limited edition chapbook, Ravenous, winner of the 1995 State Street Prize. Beatty’s poetry has appeared in journals such as Quarterly West, Gulf Coast, Indiana Review, and Court Green, and in anthologies published by Oxford University Press, University of Illinois Press, and University of Iowa Press. Awards include the $15,000 Creative Achievement Award in Literature from the Heinz Foundation, the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, and two fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Beatty has read her work widely, at venues such as the Los Angeles Times Book Festival and the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival. For the past eighteen years, she has hosted and produced Prosody, a public radio show on NPR-affiliate WYEP-FM featuring the work of national writers. Beatty directs the creative writing program at Carlow University, where she runs the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops and teaches in the MFA program.

Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning (Main Street Rag). Her poetry has appeared in journals including 5 AM, New Renaissance, Poet Lore and Quarterly West, and the anthologies Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant), and Voices from the Attic (Carlow University), among others. In 2007, she won the Earl Birney Poetry Prize from Prism International, and her poetry has twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. With Jimmy Cvetic, she curates and hosts the Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series in Pittsburgh.

Sheila Carter-Jones credits the domestic working women in the small coal mining community where she grew up as the spiritual source of her poetic inspiration. Her poetry is published in anthologies and journals including Crossing Limits, Pennsylvania Review, Riverspeak, and Coal: A Poetry Anthology, and a chapbook, Blackberry Cobbler Song. Her book of poetry, Three Birds Deep, was recently selected by Elizabeth Alexander for publication by Lotus Press.

Celeste Gainey holds a BFA in film and television from New York University and an MFA in creative writing/poetry from Carlow University. Her chapbook, In the land of speculation & seismography, selected by Elioses Klein Healy as a runner-up for the 2010 Robin Becker Chapbook Prize was Published by Seven Kitchens Press was published in 2011. Most recently, her poems have appeared in Columbia Poetry Review and BLOOM.

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Short bio: Poetry. Tattoos. Red lipstick.