VenueHemingway's Cafe 

Date07/05/2011 

Time8:00 PM - 10:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

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Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Hemingway's Summer Poetry Series 8 p.m.
Tuesdays May through July
3911 Forbes Avenue (in the backroom) Oakland
Free and open to the public.
A 21+ event. Jim Cvetic hosts.

July 5 - Jay Carson, Joseph Karasek, Romella Kitchens, Richard St. John

Jay Carson teaches creative writing, literature, and rhetoric at Robert Morris University, where he is also a faculty advisor to the student literary journal, Rune. Active professionally, he regularly presents and participates in readings, both locally, nationally, and occasionally, internationally. Jay has published more than 50 poems which have appeared in local and national literary and professional journals, magazines, and anthologies. He has just finished a book of his poems, entitled The Cinnamon of Desire.

Joseph Karasek performed as an actor and violinist with The Theater Within, an improvisational theater group in New York City. A former violist with the National Orchestral Association, he created school orchestras on the elementary and secondary levels, and taught music composition and music theory at Long Island University. Living in Pittsburgh, PA since 1991, he has taught philosophy at the Academy for Lifelong Learning at Carnegie Mellon University. Several years ago, he led a study group on James Joyce's Ulysses there. His poetry has been published in Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts) and Blue Arc West: An Anthology of California Poets. His first two books of poetry, Beyond Waking and Love and the Ten Thousand Things were published by Tebot Bach in 2009.

Romella Kitchens is a graduate of the University Of Pittsburgh with three masters degrees in education. She has been published in Main Street Rag, The Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Rune Literary Magazine, Essence Magazine, The California Quarterly, 5 AM, Mud Fish and many more. Her poetry lesson plan is included in Autumn House's The Working Poet: 75 Writing Exercises and a Poetry Anthology, edited by Scott Minor. Her published chapbooks include: Hip Hop Warrior, The Immortals, The Heaven Of Elephants and her latest The Red Covered Bridge through Pudding House Press. Currently, she is dividing her time between writing plays, seeking publication of a book of short stories and seeking publication of a full-length book of poetry.

Richard St. John studied English at Princeton University (B.A.) and the University of Virginia (M.A.). Following 20 years of work in community development, Rick completed a mid-career Loeb Fellowship at Harvard University, and then founded and directed "Conversations for Common Wealth,” which used poetry and other materials to help small groups of citizens connect across difference and reflect on their own contributions to the common good. His poems have appeared in Carolina Quarterly, 5 a.m.,Poet Lore, Sewanee Review and many other periodicals. His book, The Pure Inconstancy of Grace was published in 2005 by Truman State University Press. Rick is Executive Director of Autumn House Press, a non-profit literary publishing house based in Pittsburgh. He lives in Pittsburgh with his wife Kate.

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Is this an open mic event? No 

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Address 13911 Forbes Avenue 

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CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15213 

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

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Primary Contact Emaildrjmchem@zoominternet.com 

Telephone412-621-4100 

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

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

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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.