Sphinx Reading Series. Tuesdays at 8 p.m. Coordinated by Kayla Sargeson. At the Sphinx Café in Oakland, Bates and Atwood Streets. (Upstairs. One nonalcholic drink minimum.) Open mic: usually two pages or two poems. For more information, Jan Beatty at beattyjp AT carlow DOT edu.
Gist Street. Approximately monthly. Doors open 7:15 p.m. Readings begin at 8 p.m. At James Simon's sculpture studio, 305 Gist Street, Uptown. Well-published writers. Snacks. BYOB. Door prizes. A great space and a cool series. $10.00. (Note cost change.)
Sunday Poetry and Reading Series, Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh. Approximately monthly. 2:00 to 3:00 p.m. Quiet Reading Room, Main Library, Oakland, first floor. Free.
Té Café Reading Series. At Té Café, 2000 Murray Avenue, Squirrel Hlll. Thursdays, approximately monthly. 7 p.m. Free. Light meals and good tea and coffee available. Presented by Erik Rosen and Té Café. 412-422-8888
On the fourth Wednesday of each month, Michael Wurster leads a discussion of a poetry book in the back room of Coffee Tree Roasters, Walnut Street, Shadyside, Pittsburgh. See WORKSHOPS for details.
February 2: Langston Hughes Poetry Society: Dessie Bey, Carol Payne Crystian, Edward Murray, Art Powell and Michael Williams. 2 p.m. Sunday Poetry and Reading Series, Main Carnegie Library.
The mission of the Langston Hughes Poetry Society (LHPS) is to keep in remembrance and to continue the legacy of literary artists who have contributed to the African American experience in America.
February 5: Douglas Kearney. With fiction writer Josh Weil. Gist Street Series.
The reading scheduled for February 9 at Hungry Sphinx is CANCELLED.
February 9: Michael Wurster and Nikki Allen Hungry Sphinx Poetry Series. Tues., Feb. 9, at 8 p.m. Michael Wurster is a founding member of Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange. He has taught at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts School since 1993. He is the author of the poetry collections The Snake Charmer's Daughter (ELEMENOPE, 2006) and The British Detective (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2009). He co-edited Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant Press, 2008). In 1996, Wurster was an inaugural recipient of a Pittsburgh Magazine Harry Schwalb Excellence in the Arts Award for his contributions to poetry and the community.
Dynamic young poet Nikki Allen, the author of a dozen chapbooks, has an exciting reading style and a profound understanding of cadence and the breath-line.
February 14: Ed Ochester. Father Ryan Arts Center, 420 Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA. 7 p.m. $10. Tickets: (412) 298-7373.
It's fair to call Ed Ochester the dean of poetry in Pittsburgh: for twenty years head of the writing program at the University of Pittsburgh, head of the University of Pittsburgh Press, co-founder of 5 A.M., author of many volumes of poetry, et cetera. Listen to a poem by him.
February 18: Richard St. John and Rosaly DeMaios Roffman Té Café. 7 p.m.
Richard St. John's book of poems, The Pure Inconstancy of Grace, was published in 2005 by Truman State University Press. His work has also appeared in Sewanee Review, Poet Lore, Carolina Quarterly and other periodicals. Rick is Executive Director for Autumn House Press, a national, nonprofit literary press, based in Pittsburgh.
Rosaly DeMaios Roffman has taught courses in writing and literature, edited the myth journal Aristeia, and started a Myth/Folklore Studies Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where she is Professor Emerita. She is coeditor of Life on the Line: Healing and Words and author of Going to Bed Whole, Tottering Palaces, The Approximate Message, and, most recently, In the Fall of a Sparrow, a chapbook commissioned by the Pennsylvania Governor's Institute for the Humanities. Rosaly has collaborated on 18 pieces with composers and dance/theater companies and has been published in numerous journals and anthologies. She is a member and facilitator of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop in Pittsburgh.
February 24: PPE poetry discussion group discusses James Merrill, Selected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, 2008)
February 26: Deadline for applying for scholarship aid for Michael Wurster's poetry class (or any other) at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts.
March 5: Deadline for early registration discount for Pittsburgh Center for the Arts classes, including Michael Wurster's poetry writing class.(412-361-0455, or register online).
March 21: R. J. Gibson, Irene McKinney, and Aaron Smith. 2 p.m. Sunday Poetry and Reading Series, Main Carnegie Library.
R. J. Gibson's chapbook Scavenge won the 2009-10 Robin Becker Prize.
Irene McKinney is the author of six books of poetry, including the most recent Unthinkable: Selected Poems 1976-2004. She is the Poet Laureate of West Virginia and the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Poetry.
Aaron Smith is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, the winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. His chapbook, What's Required, received the 2003 Frank O'Hara Award.
March 24: PPE poetry discussion group discusses Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf).
April 1: Michael Wurster's poetry class at Pittsburgh Center for the Artsbegins.
April 28: PPE poetry discussion group discusses Robinson Jeffers, The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers (Stanford University Press)
May 26: PPE poetry discussion group discusses Hafiz, The Gift (translated by Daniel Lachinsky (Penguin Compass)
And don't forget Prosody, WYEP's regular Tuesday evening radio program featuring local and nationally known writers. 7 p.m.
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