Venue91.3 WYEP-FM / WYEP Community Broadcast Center 

Date03/22/2013 

Time7:30 PM - 9:30 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Jan Beatty

WYEP-FM Community Broadcast Center
67 Bedford Square, South Side
On-street parking
Free and open to the public
Reception and book signing following the reading

Jan Beatty’s books include The Switching/Yard (2013), Red Sugar (2008, Finalist, Paterson Prize), Boneshaker (2002), and Mad River (1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize), published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. Her limited edition chapbooks include Ravage, published by Lefty Blondie Press in 2012, and Ravenous, winner of the 1995 State Street Prize. Beatty hosts and produces Prosody, a public radio show on NPR affiliate WESA-FM featuring national writers. She worked as a welfare caseworker, an abortion counselor, in maximum security prisons, and as a waitress for fifteen years. Awards include the Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry, two PCA fellowships, the Creative Achievement Award from the Heinz Foundation, and inclusion in Best American Poetry 2013. Beatty has read her work widely, at venues such as the Geraldine R. Dodge Festival, Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, and Split This Rock. She directs the creative writing program at Carlow University, where she teaches in the MFA program.

Sponsored by WESA, Pittsburgh’s NPR News Station; WYEP; The Madwomen in the Attic; and Prosody, Western Pennsylvania’s only radio show featuring contemporary literature.

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