Heinz Memorial Chapel
Fifth and Bellefield Avenues
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
United States
Free and open to the public.
Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series presents readings and conversations with poets Kathy Fagan (Sycamore) and Khadijah Queen (I’m So Fine: A List of Famous Men & What I Had On). The conversation will be moderated by Yona Harvey (Hemming the Water).
This event is at Heinz Memorial Chapel, located on South Bellefield Avenue between Fifth and Forbes Avenues, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260.
Kathy Fagan
Kathy Fagan is the author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, as well as four previous collections including The Charm, the National Poetry Series-winning The Raft, and Vassar Miller Prize-winner MOVING & ST RAGE. A former NEA fellow, she is currently the Director of Creative Writing and the MFA program at Ohio State University, and Poetry Editor for OSU Press.
The language of trees is the language of love and loss: in this collection, black walnuts fall where no one can eat or smell them, and cottonwood sends out feverish signals of pollen. And like the bark of the sycamore, which sheds to allow the tree’s expansion, these poems document both pain and tenuous rebirth.