VenueHemingway's Cafe 

Date05/31/2011 

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

May 31 - Nikki Allen, Angele Ellis, Timons Esaias, Justin Hopper

Nikki Allen is a writer living in Pittsburgh. She’s been getting on stages for over 11 years and scribbling poems on homework, in notebooks and all over cocktail napkins for most of her life. She is the author of numerous chapbooks, including My Darling Since, Gutter of Eden, and Quite Like Yes. She competed on national poetry slam teams in Dayton and Pittsburgh from 2001 to 2003. Her poetry has appeared in The New Yinzer, Crash, Open Thread Regional Review Vol. 2, and Encyclopedia Destructica. She’s also performed with beatboxers, bucket drums and the Incredibly Thin Collective. She uses clothes pins for hair barrettes and lives to witness others doing what they love. Her work can be found online at honeydunce.com.

Timons Esaias lives in Pittsburgh, in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood, with his wife who is a physician. He writes satire, speculative fiction, poetry, and the occasional essay. His work has appeared in over a dozen different countries, and fifteen languages. He has been a finalist for the British Science Fiction Award (1998) and the Rhysling Award (5 nominations, Third Place 1997), and he won the Asimov's Readers' Award for Poetry (2005). He is a member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange; Demeritus of the Worldwrights; a certified Rogue in Lair #1 of the Rascals, Rogues & Rapscallions. He is Adjunct Faculty at Seton Hill University, primarily in the Masters Program for Writing Popular Fiction.

Primary Contact PersonJoan Bauer 

Primary Contact EmailJBauer103w@aol.com 

Telephone412 498-7876  

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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.