VenueHemingway's Cafe 

Date07/12/2011 

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 12 - Pablo Neruda's Birthday / Bastille Day Reading - Joan E. Bauer, Ed Carvalho, Kristofer Collins, Ziggy Edwards, Kelli Stevens Kane

Joan E. Bauer is the author of The Almost Sound of Drowning, published by Main Street Rag (2008). Her poetry has appeared in the journals, 5 AM, New Renaissance, Poet Lore, Slipstream, and Quarterly West, and nearly a dozen anthologies, including Come Together: Imagine Peace (Bottom Dog Press), and Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant), among others. Her poems have twice been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and she is working on a new poetry manuscript, Leaving Silverlake. With Jim Cvetic, she co-facilitates the Hemingway Summer Poetry Series.

Ed Carvalho is an MFA recipient (Goddard College 2006), and PhD candidate in the Literature and Criticism program at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short (Fine Tooth Press, 2007), Chants from the Seven Cities (Guerrilla Ignition, 2009), and the forthcoming manuscript “If the radiance of a thousand suns”: Songs of the American Hiroshima (2010). His poems have been twice-nominated for the Pushcart Prize (2004-05) and appear in recent publications such as MARGIE: The American Journal of Poetry; AmeriQuests (Vanderbilt University); 580 Split (Mills College); and upstreet, among many others.

Ziggy Edwards grew up in Pittsburgh and earned a BA in Fiction Writing from the University of Pittsburgh. Her poems and short stories have appeared in publications including Confluence, Paper Street, Pittsburgh City Paper, Nexus, Main Street Rag, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, and Ship of Fools. She has also been a guest on WYEP radio's Prosody. Ziggy's first chapbook, Hope's White Shoes. was published in 2006.

Kelli Stevens Kane's poetry is featured or forthcoming in Spider Magazine, Denvery Syntax, The Poetry Super Highway, Little Red Leaves and Maintenant. Her poetry manuscript, Hallelujah Science, is currently making the rounds. She is the recipient of a Serpent Source Foundation grant for her second manuscript, an oral history about the Hill District of Pittsburgh. Kelli was a regular in the San Francisco poetry scene in the late nineties. She returned to the stage in December 2009, and since has read widely, including performances at the Cornelia Street Cafe and Bowery Poetry Club in New York, NY, the August Wilson Center for African American Culture in Pittsburgh, PA.

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Is this an open mic event? No 

Is this a book signing? No 

Will author's books be for sale? No 

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 

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.