Conflict-Zone Blogger Judith Torrea at City of Asylum
By Mike Schneider
Tags: Arts, Media, Judith Torrea, City of Asylum/Pittsburgh, Juarez, Under the Shadow of Drug Trafficking
Joy Katz's new book of poems negotiates crisis with deadly seriousness and sly humor.
"Happiness is on me like a scratch in a car door."
Tags: Book Reviews + Features
A review of Yona Harvey' s poetry collection Hemming the Water
These poems go where they go, modulating artfully, bristling with intelligence
A review of poet Jan Beatty's new collection, The Switching/ Yard.
"The new book ups the ante of Beatty's punk-tinged feminism flavored with graphic sex."
Poet Paula Bohince's The Children draws on her Westmoreland County childhood
The poems often demand lingering attention, and the lingering often rewards.
In The Torah Garden, poet Philip Terman finds a place worth staying
Terman arrives, in convincing moments, at something rarely well expressed in poetry: earned peace with a measure of joy.
By Mars Johnson
A love letter, via Stormy Daniels, to the women and femmes who did not say no
By Jessie Sage
Pittsburgh loved its disco days, and Thomas Jayson packed the clubs
By Rachel Wilkinson
Pittsburgh’s heaviest hardcore band No Reason to Live will never die
By Eli Enis
Pittsburgh’s top 420 events
By CP Staff
