The below announcement is courtesy of Pittsburgh Poetry Review, which will be celebrating the launch of their first issue on Saturday, November 14th.
Pittsburgh. City of Bridges. City of Champions. These are just a few of this great city’s titles. But we’d like to suggest another: City of Poets, both the ones born here (Gertrude Stein, Jack Gilbert, Gerald Stern, Peter Oresick, Judith Vollmer, and Jan Beatty, to name a few), as well as the many great ones who have chosen Pittsburgh to live, teach, and create in (Lynn Emanuel, Terrance Hayes, Ed Ochester, Yona Harvey, Joy Katz, Toi Derricote, Jim Daniels and others).
It’s a city that supports the art and craft of poetry, with too many workshops and reading series to name. The city’s major colleges and universities, Pitt, CMU, Chatham, and Carlow all have outstanding degree programs dedicated to the craft, as well as the highly-esteemed Pitt Poetry Series. Autumn House, founded by Michael Simms, has grown into a major publisher of nationally known poets.
And while Pittsburgh boasts a large number of online and print journals, we sorely miss the long-running 5 AM, founded and edited by Judith Vollmer and Ed Ochester.
5 AM was known for publishing an eclectic mix of quality poetry from local writers and beyond, and nothing has sprouted up to fill that particular void. So, four friends and lovers of poetry, Bob Walicki, Ziggy Edwards, Jennifer Jackson Berry, and Michael Albright came together to create the Pittsburgh Poetry Review! PPR will devote a significant portion of each issue to local poetry, as well as quality work from poets around the country There is no specific aesthetic except excellence.
Our goal is to become a subscription-driven quarterly journal. The issues will be glossy-cover and perfect-bound, containing 100-200 pages, We hope our website will become a virtual gathering place for all of Pittsburgh poetry, including a calendar of events, a directory of local open workshops, and other info that can’t wait for the print edition. We’ll also feature poems from contributors on our site as well.
We’d like everyone to be a part of the Pittsburgh Poetry Review! We give you our commitment to be fair, be timely, and be relevant. We hope this will be a long journey, and we invite everyone to be a part of it!
We are excited to announce the Pittsburgh Poetry Review Launch Party to be held on Saturday, November 14 at the…
Posted by Pittsburgh Poetry Review on Monday, September 28, 2015
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