Chapbook Launch for local poet, Valerie Bacharach, with guest readers

5825 Forbes Avenue,Pittsburgh PA 15217

07 October, 2021

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Local poet Valerie Bacharach celebrates the release of her chapbook GHOST-MOTHER with Jen Ashburn, Angele Ellis, & Emily Mohn-Slate Valerie Bacharach received her MFA from Carlow University. Her writing has appeared or will appear in: Talking/Writing, Vox Viola, Vox Populi, Whale Road Review, The Blue Mountain Review, EcoTheo Review, Kosmos Quarterly Journal, Amethyst Review, and Poetica. Her chapbook, Fireweed, was published in August 2018 by Main Street Rag. Her chapbook Ghost-Mother was published by Finishing Line Press in July, 2021. Her poem Bach Trio Sonata #6 in G Major was nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Jen Ashburn is the author of the The Light on the Wall (Main Street Rag, 2016), and has work published in numerous venues, including The Fiddlehead, The Writer’s Almanac and Pedestal Magazine. She holds an MFA through Chatham University and is a member of Carlow University’s Madwomen in the Attic workshops. She’s taught creative writing in community workshops, and currently teaches first-year writing at Duquesne University. Angele Ellis’s haiku was featured on the marquee of the Harris Theatre after winning Pittsburgh Filmmakers’ G-20 Haiku Contest. Her poetry, fiction, and non-fiction have appeared in seventy publications and seventeen anthologies. She is author of Arab on Radar (Six Gallery Press), whose poems about family and heritage won an Individual Fellowship from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, Spared (A Main Street Rag Editor’s Choice Chapbook), and Under the Kaufmann’s Clock (2016), a fiction/poetry hybrid inspired by Angele’s adopted city of Pittsburgh, with photographs by Rebecca Clever. Emily Mohn-Slate is the author of The Falls, winner of the 2019 New American Poetry Prize (New American Press), and Feed, winner of the 2018 Keystone Chapbook Prize (Seven Kitchens Press). Her poems and essays have appeared in AGNI, New Ohio Review, Muzzle Magazine, Tupelo Quarterly, The Adroit Journal, and elsewhere. She teaches high school English by day and poetry workshops by night for the Madwomen in the Attic at Carlow University. Pittsburgh's premier independent bookstore, Riverstone Books features a well-curated selection of literary and popular fiction, nonfiction, and children’s books.  In addition, we offer a variety of gift items, greeting cards, and children’s puzzles, educational games, and literary stuffed animals. Our experienced booksellers are voracious readers who love to match people to books they will love.