reading their own poetry
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
7:00 PM
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
South Side Works
2705 East Carson Street
Pittsburgh
Admission is free. Books will be available for purchase.
The South Side Summer Poetry Reading is an annual event of the South Side Local Development Company, a nonprofit community development corporation.
The reading is sponsored by David W. Oster, CPA.
For further information: (412)481-7636.
The well-known Cap Gun Quartet has collaborated with Michael Wurster and Romella Kitchens on a new CD, Several Other Sounds. See Readings for information about the CD launch party, and order from Amazon, iTunes, Emusic, or Rhapsody.
Along These Rivers, a beautiful anthology of the best poetry and photography being produced in the Pittsburgh region, has been published by Quadrant Publishing. Edited by PPE mainstays Michael Wurster and Judith Robinson, Along These Rivers is a celebration in art of Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary. The book will be available in some Pittsburgh bookstores, or can be ordered directly from Quadrant Publishing, Pittsburgh.
Local poets have been reading poems from Along These Rivers at Allegheny County Libraries in celebration of National Poetry Month (and afterward) and of Pittsburgh's 250th anniversary. Schedule.
On June 7, 2008, at 3:00 p.m, a reading by many of the poets in Along These Rivers took place at the Three Rivers Arts Festival in conjunction with an exhibit of photographs from the book at the Three Rivers Gallery, second floor, 937 Liberty Avenue, in downtown Pittsburgh.
