VenueHemingway's Cafe 

Date07/19/2011 

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 19 - Jan Beatty, Ed Ochester, Stacey Waite

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.

Through his writing, editing and teaching, Ed Ochester has been a major force on contemporary letters for more than three decades. He edits the Pitt Poetry Series and is general editor of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize for short fiction, both published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. From 1978 to 1988 he was director of the Writing Program at the University of Pittsburgh, and was twice elected president of the Associated Writing Programs. He co-edits the poetry magazine 5AM, and lives in a rural county northeast of Pittsburgh. His recent books include Snow White Horses: Selected Poems 1973-1988 (Autumn House Press, 2001), American Poetry Now: Pitt Poetry Series Anthology (
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2007) and Unreconstructed: Poems Selected and New (Autumn House Press, 2007). Poems just published or forthcoming in: American Poetry Review, Agni, Chiron Review, Great River Review and Nerve Cowboy.

Stacey Waite is originally from New York and received an MFA in poetry in 1003. She teaches courses in Composition, Women's Studies, Literature and Creative Writing as a PHD candidate at the University of Pittsburgh. After receiving her MFA, Stacey has published two collections of poems: Choke (winner of the 2004 Frank O'Hara Prize in Poetry) and Love Poem to Androgyny (winner of the 2006 Main Street Rag Competition). Her poems have been published most recently in The Cream City Review, The Marlboro Review, Gulf Stream and Black Warrior Review. A new collection of poems, The Lake has No Saint, was published by Tupelo Press in 2010. Stacey also teaches for the Carlow University sponsored community, Madwomen in the Attic.

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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/ 

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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.