Lucia LoTempio
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L+S Press Release Party/Reading: Dark Garnet

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Join us at Pittsburgh's White Whale Bookstore on Thursday, February 6th for a reading featuring L+S Press's 2019 Mid-Atlantic Chapbook Series winner, Carrie Greenlaw, who will read selections from her debut chapbook "Dark Garnet"

ABOUT THE READERS:

Carrie Greenlaw, whose debut chapbook "Dark Garnet" won the 2019 L+S Press Mid-Atlantic Poetry Series contest, is a poet and artist from the North Side of Pittsburgh. Her work has been featured in The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Masque & Spectacle, Inscape Magazine and other publications. She lives low and lives slow. More at carriegreenlaw.com.

Nikki Allen is a lover & a writer—with hair an animal & heart clumsy tiger. Scribbling because she must with nearly 20 years of stages in her gut. She has read in cities across the US at music festivals, war protests, backyards and art openings. She is the author of numerous books, including Gutter of Eden, Quite Like Yes, and Ligaments of Light/Tigering the Shoulders(Night Ballet Press). Her work has appeared in Nailed, Crash, The New Yinzer, out of nothing, Profane Journal(Pushcart Prize nominee ‘14/’15) and Encyclopedia Destructica among others. She believes in revolution, strong coffee, the hard knocks & the sweetness.

Lucia LoTempio is the author of Hot with the Bad Things (Alice James Books 2020). You can find her poems in Passages North, The Journal, TYPO, Quarterly West, as part of the Academy of American Poets poem-a-day series, and elsewhere. With Suzannah Russ Spaar, she co-authored the chapbook Undone in Scarlet (Tammy 2019). Lucia lives and writes in Pittsburgh. Drop a line at lucialotempio.com.

Earlier Event: September 17
PCFA: Poetry Writing Workshop