VenueHemingway's Cafe 

Date05/17/2011 

Time8:00 PM - 10:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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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 17 - Jan Beatty & Madwomen in the Attic: Molly Bain, Tess Barry, Gayle Reed Carroll, Dorina Pena, Susan Shaw Sailer & Bernadette Ulsamer

Jan Beatty’s new book, Red Sugar, was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press in Spring, 2008. Other books include Boneshaker (2002, U. of Pgh. Press) and Mad River, winner of the 1994 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Ravenous, her limited edition chapbook, won the 1995 State Street Prize. Beatty’s poetry has appeared in 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. For the past thirteen 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.

Molly Bain is a writer, teacher, and performer. She writes dramatic lit with a poetic bent, and poetry with a dramatic bent, driving everybody in both camps crazy. She has written and performed two one-woman shows, as well as numerous short monologues for competition and performance; she also works with choreographers, composers, and directors to adapt old text and bring new text to various stages. A fan of the rant and the rave, Molly is a Madwoman.

Tess Barry has an MA in English from the University of Pittsburgh and is currently enrolled in Carlow University's MFA program. Her work has appeared most recently in Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry and Reading Series Anthology, Carlow University Press's Voices from The Attic: Volume XVI, and Sampsonia Way, an online magazine sponsored by City of Asylum/Pittsburgh.

Gayle Reed Carroll has taught Art and Calligraphy locally. She earned an AB at Hood College and an MFA in Graphic Design at CMU. She has studied with poets including Stephen Dunn, Kenneth Rosen, Jan Beatty, and Ellen McGrath Smith. In 2009 she was winner of the Merton Prize for Poetry of the Sacred, and her poem, “Carved in Stone,” finalist for the Robert Frost Award, appears on their blog. She lives in Mt. Lebanon.

Dorina Pena was born in Falmouth, Massachusetts and raised in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and Fayetteville, North Carolina. She received a BA in English Writing at the University of Pittsburgh, and recently completed her MFA in Creative Writing at Carlow University.

Susan Shaw Sailer completed her MFA in the low-residency program in poetry at New England College in 2007, after having taught at junior and senior high schools in Tacoma, Washington for 22 years and West Virginia University for 11 years. Her poems have appeared in such journals as Poetry International, 5 a.m., Kestrel, Pearl, and U.S. 1 Worksheets. Her poetry manuscript Dark Mile In was a finalist in the 2010 ABZ First Book Contest. She has a second manuscript ready for publication, Ship of Light.

Bernadette Ulsamer earned a BA in Poetry and a MLIS from the University of Pittsburgh. Her poetry has appeared in City Paper, Main Street Rag, in two chapbooks: Blue Notebooks,The Strangest Thing I've Ever Seen, and has been featured on the radio show Prosody on NPR affiliate WYEP-FM.

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 

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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/ 

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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.