Pretty Owl Poetry Reading

Please join us for a house reading with traveling poets edie roberts & Chelsea Tadeyeske, the lovely Lucia LoTempio, and Stephanie Cawley's Pittsburgh swan song (she's moving to New Jersey at the end of June!!!). Bios below. I'll make cookies and provide a little bit of booze. Bring your friends and lovers and a bottle of wine//beer//whatever you fancy.

Stephanie Cawley has an MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Boston Review, West Branch, Gramma, the PEN Poetry Series, and TYPO, among others. She is from and about to return to southern New Jersey, where she will miss all of your beautiful faces.

Lucia LoTempio is a poet who grew up in place almost as rusty as Pittsburgh. You can find her work in or forthcoming from TYPO, Academy of American Poets, The Journal, Quarterly West, Sixth Finch, and more. Co-authored with Suzannah Russ Spaar, her chapbook Undone in Scarlet will be released in late 2018 from Tammy Press. Currently, Lucia edits book reviews for Aster(ix) and works in the North Side as a project coordinator for City of Asylum.

edie roberts is a genderqueer performer and activist currently living in Detroit, MI. They are the author of The Heel and The Face, Little Book of Shit, and The Roof is on Fire, among others. Their work is steeped in a characteristic American anxiety, searching for identity through cultural interrogation and radical vulnerability, then connected to global economic and environmental concerns with an activated desperation. Their poems and sound pieces have appeared and disappeared at Thunderclap Magazine, DUETDUET, Those That This, Sawbuck, The New Gnus, No Exit, etc. They are currently making books/zines/etc under the umbrella of bathmatics, and organizing for housing and workplace justice in Detroit. Write them at edierobertsmessmaker@gmail.com
http://edieroberts.wordpress.com/

Chelsea Tadeyeske is a poet, performer, and bookmaker from Milwaukee, WI. She is the founding editor of pitymilk press (pitymilkpress.wordpress.com) which publishes short-run chapbooks as well as an online and print journal. Her work is interested in investigating the Venn diagrams made of the shame, trauma and desire that are rooted in femininity, often making visceral the hurt of societal expectations and perspectives in her performances on and off the page. Two of her chapbooks, ‘if you bend it backwards nothing really happens’ and ‘we’re all born with the right to be angry’ were recently released from Rabbit Catastrophe Press and bathmatics, respectively. Her poems can be found online at Pretty Owl Poetry, Delirious Hem, Smoking Glue Gun, Leopardskin & Limes, among others. She is a Virgo sun/Aquarius moon/Libra rising born in the year of the snake. To see a more summarized view of her work, visit https://chelseartadeyeskeblog.wordpress.com/