GOOD POETRY AT ZENCLAY
Ensō. Some artists draw an Ensō every day.
Zenclay Gallery, 2862 University Ave., Morgantown, W.Va., often has poetry events, and yesterday I missed a good one. The 10th was my birthday, and I was so busy having a good time that I missed an important announcement about a Morgantown event that has now passed. My apologies. I am certain the event came off beautifully without me, but I do wish I had been there. The information Lori Wilson put together about the poets is important enough for me to post the announcement anyway, just to have these two people on the MountainWord record. Some of you might want to read some of the work of these two writers: Michael Wurster and Judith R. Robinson.
Here’s the way it was… I just didn’t notice it until last night about 10 p.m.:
Reminder: Pittsburgh poets reading (announcement courtesy of Lori Wilson via Ted Webb)
When: 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Nov. 10
Where: Zenclay Gallery, 2862 University Ave.
Michael Wurster will read from The British Detective (Main Street Rag, 2009) and Judith R. Robinson will read from Dinner Date (Finishing Line Press, 2009).
The reading is free and open to the public.
Great food, coffees and teas avaiable before and after the reading.
Judith R. Robinson is an editor, teacher, fiction writer and poet. A graduate of the University of Pittsburgh, she has been published in numerous magazines, newspapers and anthologies. She was editor of Living Inland; author of The Beautiful Wife and Other Stories; and poetry editor of Signatures. She currently teaches poetry in the ALL Program at Carnegie Mellon University. She is editor of Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami (Bayeux Arts), and co-editor with Michael Wurster of Along These Rivers: Poetry and Photography from Pittsburgh (Quadrant).
Michael Wurster was born in Moline, Illinois, and has lived in Iowa, Virginia and Pennsylvania. He currently resides in Pittsburgh with his two Siamese cats, Clea and Hawthorne. He is a founding member of Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange and teaches at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts School. His two previous poetry collections are The Cruelty of the Desert (Cottage Wordsmiths, 1989) and The Snake Charmer’s Daughter (ELEMENOPE, 2000). He is co-editor, with Judith R. Robinson, of the anthology Along These Rivers: Poetry & 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.
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Judith R. Robinson, by the way, has an upcoming reading at
Robert Morris University
The Marketplace
6001 University Boulevard
Moon Township, PA 15108
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 1:30 pm
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