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Amped to partner with PRETTY OWL POETRY for a stellar National Poetry Month event featuring local poets they've featured in their magazines! Come hear some of our favorite writers in the city and celebrate the good poetry can do all year round. This evening's readers will include LUCIA LOTEMPIO, CHARLIE LEFEVER, KARA KNICKERBOCKER, and MALCOLM FRIEND. Head to our Bookshop site's list titled "Recent and Upcoming Events (Pre-order!)" to order Malcolm's full-length collection and to pre-order Lucia's forthcoming book (May 2020). You can also check out other curated lists and picks on our main site page (bookshop.org/shop/whitewhale), or use the search bar in the upper center-right to look for any book. (Using the book's ISBN usually works best.) #WhiteWhaleWatching
PRETTY OWL POETRY is a feminist quarterly journal that publishes the visual arts, traditional and nontraditional forms, fiction masquerading as poetry, and work that does not snugly fit into a specific genre, all with a lyrical quality. We’re especially interested in work centered around the bodily experiences of womxn, nonbinary, and trans folx. We’re committed to publishing underrepresented and marginalized voices and encourage submission from such artists.
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.
CHARLIE LEFEVER is a queer writer living in Pittsburgh. They focus primarily on spoken word, having won first prize at both the Steel City Slam and the Nasty Slam poetry contests. Their work, best described as creative nonfiction with a surrealist twist, is forthcoming in the Arlington Literary Journal. They also host a monthly reading at Bantha Tea Bar, which showcases local Pittsburgh talent.
KARA KNICKERBOCKER is a writer and world wanderer from Saegertown, Pennsylvania. She is the author of the chapbooks The Shedding Before the Swell (dancing girl press 2018) and Next to Everything that is Breakable (Finishing Line Press 2017). Her poetry and essays appeared in or are forthcoming in: Construction, Longridge Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Uppagus, Broad River Review, and the anthology Voices from the Attic among others. Knickerbocker lives in Pittsburgh, where she works at Carnegie Mellon University, co-curates the MadFridays Reading Series, and is a proud member of the Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University. You can find her online at www.karaknickerbocker.com.
MALCOLM FRIEND is a poet originally from the Rainier Beach neighborhood of Seattle, Washington. He received his BA from Vanderbilt University, and his MFA from the University of Pittsburgh. He is the author of the chapbook mxd kd mixtape (Glass Poetry, 2017) and the full length collection Our Bruises Kept Singing Purple (Inlandia Books, 2018), selected by Cynthia Arrieu-King as winner of the 2017 Hillary Gravendyk Prize. Together with JR Mahung he is a member of Black Plantains, an Afrocaribbean poetry collective.