VenueHemingway's Cafe 

Date06/07/2011 

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 7 - Deborah Bogen, Ellen McGrath Smith, Rosaly DeMaios Roffman

Deborah Bogen's Landscape with Silos won the X.J. Kennedy Poetry Prize 2005. Bogen's poems and reviews appear widely. Recent poetry can be found in Shenandoah, The Gettysburg Review, Field, Margie and Poetry International. Her chapbook, Living by the Children's Cemetery, was selected by Edward Hirsch as winner of the 2002 ByLine Press Chapbook Competition. Although her North Dakota roots provide the backdrop for some of the her poems, she now lives in Pittsburgh PA, where she runs free fiction and poetry workshops for talented overworked academics.

Ellen McGrath Smith teaches at the University of Pittsburgh and in the Carlow University Madwomen in the Attic program. Poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Cerise, The Same, Kestrel, Oranges & Sardines, Diner, 5 a.m., Oxford Magazine, The Prose Poem, Southern Poetry Review, Descant (Canada), and others. Her critical work has been published in Sagetrieb, The Denver Quarterly, The American Book Review and other journals. Her poetry has been recognized with an Academy of American Poets award, a Rainmaker Award from Zone 3 magazine, and, more recently, a 2007 Individual Artist grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Rosaly DeMaios Roffman, facilitator of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop, taught
creative writing, myth and literature and started a Myth/Folklore Studies Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. She co-edited the prize-winning anthology Life on the Line and is author of Going to Bed Whole, Tottering Palaces and The Approximate Message. She has read her poems in Ireland, Greece, Mexico, Israel, Spain and the Czech Republic and was a featured writer on the BBC's "Writer from Abroad" series. Her work has been published in Centennial Review, Riverrun, MacGuffin, Main Street Rag and the Pittsburgh Quarterly and she is the recipient of the Distinguished Faculty Award in the Arts at IUP. In 2008 her 16th collaborative piece, "Furoshiki" (languages that speak without words at the center) had its premier in Valley Forge before an audience of arts educators. Her book of poetry, I Want to Thank My Eyes: New and Selected Poems, will be published by Tebot Bach later this year.

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.