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.
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 11: Philip Terman and Robert Gibb. Té Café. 7 p.m. Free.
Philip Terman is the author of The House of Sages, Book of the Unbroken Days, and Rabbis of the Air. He is a co-director of the Chautauqua Writers' Festival and teaches creative writing at Clarion University.
Robert Gibb is the author of What the Heart Can Bear, World Over Water, and The Burning World. His The Origins of Evening was chosen for a National Poetry Award by Eavan Boland, and he has received two NEA fellowships, and a Pushcart Prize. He lives in New Homestead. Homestead is the subject of his 100 poem cycle, The Homestead Trilogy.
March 14: Jan Beatty.Father Ryan Arts Center, 420 Chartiers Avenue, McKees Rocks, PA. 7 p.m. $10. Tickets: (412)298-7373.
Jan Beatty's much-honored work is tough and often heartbreaking. She teaches at Carlow University and conducts the enormously popular Madwomen in the Attic poetry community.
March 18: Elizabeth Savage will be featured with Morgantown Poets. 7 p.m. Monongalia Arts Center (MAC), Morgantown, West Virginia.
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. Title poem.
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. Poems by Irene McKinney.
Aaron Smith is the author of Blue on Blue Ground, the winner of the 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Three poems by Aaron Smith. His chapbook, What's Required, received the 2003 Frank O'Hara Award.
March 24: PPE poetry discussion group discusses Mary Jo Bang, Elegy (Graywolf). Back room of Coffee Tree Roasters, Walnut Street, Shadyside..
March 27: KINETIX Poetry in Motion Open Mic Series. Pittsburgh's forum where lyrical creativity, spoken word, and music mingle.
Hosted by Spoken Word artist/actor, Leslie 2X Smith, a.k.a. Ezra. New Hazlett Theater, North Side. 11:00 p.m. Signup for open mic at 10:30 p.m. $10.00 admission at the door. Casual dress. Questions about KINETIX? Call (412)853-4675.
April 1: Michael Wurster's poetry class at Pittsburgh Center for the Artsbegins.
April 18: Romella Kitchens. Sunday Poetry and Reading Series, Carnegie Library, Oakland.
2 p.m. to 3 p.m. Free.
Crafting poetry as a boat sailing out to explore the spiritual Odyssey nature of man, Romella Kitchens interfaces her art with song, joy, performance and heart. Her generous and discerning love of poetry embraces "literary" and "spoken word" genres. A few poems by Romella Kitchens.
April 20: Rebecca Foust. Altoona Library
Theater. 6:30 p.m. Altoona native 