VenueHemingway's Cafe 

Date05/10/2011 

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 10 - Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop/ Readers will include: Anthony Ciotoli, Ann Curran, Nancy Esther James, Marc Jampole, Randy Minnich, Pam O'Brien & Shirley Stevens

Anthony Ciotoli has been teaching mathematics, and occasionally, other subjects to at risk teens for over twenty years.. Anthony was born in Rome and grew up in the suburbs of New York City. He came to Pittsburgh to attend college and never left. His poetry has appeared in Italian Americana.

Ann Curran is author of the chapbook "Placement Test," an editor’s choice publication by Main Street Rag. Her poetry has appeared in Ireland of the Welcomes, Rosebud, Notre Dame Magazine, Off the Coast, Commonweal, Loyalhanna Review, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Three Rivers Poetry Journal, Writers Digest. She covered the International Poetry Forum for The Pittsburgh Press and interviewed Seamus Heaney, Ruth Stone, Maxine Kumin, Czeslow Milosz, Allen Ginsberg and others. Former editor of Carnegie Mellon Magazine, she is a contributing editor of Pittsburgh Magazine. A two-time graduate of Duquesne University, she taught English at the Community College of Allegheny County and Duquesne University and worked for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Pittsburgh Catholic.

Marc Jampole is the author of Music from Words, published in 2007 by Bellday Books, Inc. His poetry has been published in Mississippi Review, Cortland Review, Slant, Fish Drum, Oxford Review, Janus Head, Ellipsis, and other journals. Over the years, four of Marc’s poems have been nominated for The Pushcart Prize. More than 1,200 articles he has written on various subjects have been published in magazines and newspapers. Marc has worked professionally as a filmmaker, television news reporter, university instructor, options trader, advertising executive and writer.

Randy Minnich was a research chemist and chemistry professor. Now retired, he has time to write and pursue environmental interests. He has published two books, Wildness in a Small Place and Pavlov’s Cats. His poetry has appeared in Snowy Egret, Pudding, Pearl, Main Street Rag, The Unitarian Universalist Poets (an anthology) and other publications.

Pam Obrien has been writing poetry since she was a student at Allegheny College. She has two chapbooks, Kaleidoscopes and Paper Dancing. Her third chapbook, Acceptable Losses, will be released by Pudding House in 2010. Pam teaches in the English Department at the University of Pittsburgh and serves as the Associate Director of Public and Professional Writing there. She resides in Pittsburgh with her husband, Jack, and is the mother of three grown children.

Shirley Stevens' poetry has appeared in Poet Lore and Time of Singing, and in two anthologies: Along These Rivers and Commonwealth: Contemporary Poets on Pennsylvania. She has published a chapbook, Pronouncing What We Wish to Keep. She is leader of The First Word writers’ group in Sewickley, a mentor for The Writing Academy, and poetry columnist for The Upper Case.

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/ 

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.