VenueHemingway's Cafe 

Date06/14/2011 

Time8:00 PM - 10:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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 14 - Jill Khoury, Roberta Hatcher, Steve Murabito & Mike Schneider

Jill Khoury's poems have appeared in numerous journals including Sentence, Harpur Palate. and a feature issue of the journal mannequin envy, that showcased poets who were also visual artists. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize twice by Breath and Shadow: A Journal of Disability Culture and Literature. Her most recent publications include a contribution to Open Thread, a regional review that features writers from Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia, and Borrowed Bodies, a chapbook that was released in 2009 from Pudding House Press. Her work is forthcoming in an anthology of prose and poetry by Carnegie Mellon University creative writing alumni. She currently teaches writing at Duquesne University.

Roberta Hatcher teaches French at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh. She was a 2009 finalist for the Patricia Dobler Poetry Award, and her poetry has appeared in The Comstock Review, YAWP, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She has been a guest on WYEP’s Prosody and was a featured reader in a session devoted to Border-Crossing Poetry at the 2010 Northeast Modern Language Association conference in Montreal. Her recently completed poetry manuscript is titled Boundary Waters.

Mike Schneider has written widely in Pittsburgh publications, including award-winning articles in Pittsburgh Magazine. He organized the February 2003 reading in Market Square where 27
Pittsburgh-area poets expressed their opposition to impending war in Iraq. He received a 2003-04 Creative Artists Stipend in Arts Commentary from the Pennsylvania Council of the Arts. His poems appear in several anthologies and many journals, including 5 AM, Atlanta Review, Atlanta Review, Shenandoah, Poet Lore and Poetry. His chapbook, Rooster, came out in 2004.

Primary Contact PersonJoan Bauer 

Primary Contact EmailJBauer103w@aol.com 

Telephone412 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 

Address 13911 Forbes Avenue 

Address 2 

Address 3 

CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15213 

Days/Hours of OperationMon-Fri: 11AM-2AM Saturday: 6PM-2AM Sunday: CLOSED 

Primary Contact Person 

Primary Contact Emaildrjmchem@zoominternet.com 

Telephone412-621-4100 

Websitehttp://www.hemingways-cafe.com/ 

Facebookhttp://www.facebook.com/pages/Hemingways-Cafe/43656360946 

Twitterhttp://twitter.com/HemsOakland 

AuthorJoan E. Bauer 

Websitewww.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.