VenueEast End Book Exchange 

Date04/17/2013 

Time7:00 PM - 9:00 PM  

Event TypeReading 

GenreMultigenre 

SponsorEast End Book Exchange 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Readers:
Barbara DeCesare
Jessica Dotson
Brian Tierney
Barrett Warner
MC: Karen Lillis
http://freestatereview.com/

Writers and editors from the new Maryland-based literary journal, FREE STATE REVIEW, will travel to Pittsburgh in April to read at the East End Book Exchange.

Poems and fiction by Barbara DeCesare (Issue 1) have been published in numerous journals including Poetry, Grain, Folio, Oyez, Gargoyle, and Quarter After Eight. Additionally, her work has been adapted for stage, song and short film. She is a graduate of Goddard College’s MFA-Writing program, and author of the poetry volumes Silent Type (paper Kite Press, 2007), and Jigsaw Eyesore (Anti-Man Press, 1999), and the CD Adrift (Seventh Wave, 2006), as well as a one-woman show. She is currently working on a poetry manuscript entitled My Keys Are Somewhere in this Ocean.

Jessica Lynn Dotson (Issue 1) makes her home near the Jones Run mill races in gritty Baltimore, MD. She studied graphic design and creative writing at UMBC, receiving the Linehan Artist Scholarship Award in 2004. Her work has been published in Hidden City Quarterly, and has recently appeared in Free State Review, JMWW, Lines + Stars, Smile Hon You're in Baltimore, and Broadkill Review, which also nominated her for a 2012 Pushcart Prize. She is currently working on a poetry manuscript, Asphalt Amen, about gas combustion engines, and fast motorcycles.

Brian Tierney (Issue 3) grew up by the Delaware River in the Torresdale section of Philadelphia, near the mythical Metro-Liner tracks, but headed to the South Side Slopes of Pittsburgh. He graduated from Duquesne University with a B. A. in English and Journalism, and an M. A. in English, where he has also taught literature and composition. His poems can be spied in recent or forthcoming issues of The Kenyon Review, Caliban online, Poetry Quarterly and Weave. During a joyful period in Brian’s life, he was a columnist for Pittsburgh City Paper’s “On the Rocks,” a weekly short-feature dedicated to cocktail culture in the city.

Barrett Warner (poetry editor) is primarily an essayist and book reviewer, although his short stories and poems have also appeared in Berkeley Poetry Review, Gargoyle, Southeast Review, Slipstream, Common Ground Review, California Quarterly, and many other magazines. His chapbook, Til I’m Blue in the Face, was published by Tropos Press. In addition to serving as poetry editor of Free State Review, Barrett manages his family’s farm located near the rattler bend where Indian Run and Davis Run cheat into Western Run, before joining the Gunpowder River.

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Address 14754 Liberty Avenue 

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CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15224 

Days/Hours of Operation Tue - Sat: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm  

Primary Contact PersonLesley Rains 

Primary Contact Emaileastendbookexchange@gmail.com 

Telephone(412) 224-2847 

Websitehttp://eastendbookexchange.com/ 

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AuthorKaren Lillis 

Websitehttp://karenslibraryblog.blogspot.com/ 

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Short bio: Karen Lillis is the author of four books of fiction, most recently Watch the Doors as They Close (Spuyten Duyvil Novella Series, 2012). She is a small press blogger & freelance writer. She has read her work in New York, Paris, and across the US.