We hope you can join us for a reading from four women poets whose ancestors come from four different parts of the globe.
About Christine Aikens Wolfe:
Christine Aikens Wolfe second book of poetry has just been released from Dos Madres Press; Mary McDermott Wolfe, about her Irish grandmother. Her first book of poetry, Garlanding Green came out in 2018 from Dos Madres Press. Her poetry appears in Gargoyle, Loyalhanna Review, Nerve Cowboy, Paterson Literary Review, Poetry Magazine, Rune, Sonnetto Poesia and more. She’s anthologized in A Critique of the gods, Phoenix Rising from the Ashes, The Gulf Tower Predicts Rain , Fission of Form, The Potter’s Wheel and Love & Ensuing Madness (on-line). Christine’s fiction has appeared in the anthology The Wild Hunt (Air & Nothingness Press, 2021), in Rune Magazine and in Voices from the Attic (Carlow University). Christine is president of Pittsburgh Poetry Society and takes Madwomen in the Attic workshops at Carlow.
About Vaishali Paliwal:
Vaishali Paliwal is a poet and artist from India currently residing in Pittsburgh. Her published poetry collections are ‘Lion’s Tooth On Migrating Chests’ (Soap Box Press) and ‘Water Bearer’s Song’ (Finishing Line Press) and her art has been displayed in several art galleries and community events. Inspired by the mystery of human experience and the mysticism behind natural elements, Vaishali explores the pockets of absence in the spectrum of multiple polarities and realities. She likes to create with threads, colors, and things of the earth, and aspires to build model art villages that re-establish harmony between humans and nature.
About Valerie Bacharach:
Valerie Bacharach is a graduate of Carlow University’s MFA program and a proud member of Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops. Her book, Last Glimpse was published by Broadstone Books in August 2024, ISBN 978-1-956782-79-0. Her poem Birthday Portrait, Son, published by the Ilanot Review, was selected for inclusion in 2023 Best Small Fictions. She has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes and two Best of the Net.
About Sheila Carter-Jones:
Sheila Carter-Jones is the author of Three Birds Deep, winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Book Award, and her chapbook Crooked Star Dream Book was named Honorable Mention for the New York Center for Book Arts ChapbookContest. She is a fellow of Cave Canem, the Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop and a Walter Dakin Fellow of the Sewanee Writer’s Conference. She was born and raised in a small coal mining town in Western Pennsylvania which is the site of many of her poems which have been published in various journals, anthologies and newspapers. Sheila received her MFA from Carlow University where she currently teaches in their Madwomen in the Attic Program. Her book Every Hard Sweetness is forth coming from Boa Editions in the spring of 2024.