An Evening of Poetry with the Pittsburgh Poetry Society

Join us for An Evening of Poetry with the Pittsburgh Poetry Society! We are excited to host readings by Jay Carson, Vaishali Paliwal, Judy Yogman, Asha Sharma, and Marilyn Narey.

No registration required. 

Author bios:

Jay Carson holds a doctorate in English from Carnegie-Mellon University. He taught for many years at Robert Morris University where he was a founding advisor to the literary magazine, Rune. He has published more than 100 poems and a number of short stories and essays in local and national journals, magazines, and collections. Jay is also the author of Irish Coffee (Coal Hill Press) and The Cinnamon of Desire (Main Street Rag). He is presently working on a memoir. Jay considers his work Appalachian, accessible, the ongoing problem-solving of a turbulent life, and just what you might need

Judy Yogman is a retired ESL instructor and enthusiastic poet with publication in the Pittsburgh Poetry Society's The Potter's Wheel over the last few issues. Other publication includes poems in Along These Rivers, Crossing Limits: African Americans and American Jews; Out of the Rough: Women's Poems of Survival and Celebration; and Written on Water: Writings about the Allegheny River, plus poems in several other anthologies from a 40-year span which were lost in the most recent move. She is a member of The Pittsburgh Poetry Society.

Marilyn. J. Narey is an award winning teacher, researcher, university professor, author, and transdisciplinary artist. Through her business, un/common lines: creative designs for poets/writers and her studio, Pulp and Paperworks at Radiant Hall, McKees Rocks, she integrates word and image in unique 2-D and 3-D arts pieces that explore women’s personal concerns and societal issues. Dr. Narey’s poems and visual artworks currently are on exhibit at Erie Art Museum, and recently have been displayed at the mayor’s office in Pittsburgh, Harlan Gallery at Seton Hill University, and the Radiant Hall exhibit at the 2024 Three Rivers Arts Festival.

Vaishali Paliwal is a poet and artist from India currently residing in Pittsburgh. She likes to mostly spend her sunrises and sunsets in her urban garden and aspires to be a fulltime farmer, anthropologist and filmmaker in next years. In between her very different worlds of arts and corporate, with a city body carrying a heart that years for rural living, she finds her poetry, abstract paintings, embroidery and teachings of Advaita Vedanta as the best mediums to settle her giant rifts. Her poetry chapbook ‘Lion’s Tooth On Migrating Chests’ was published by The Soap Box Press in 2018. Some of her other work has appeared in Gone Lawn, Platform Review, Genre Urban Arts, Kitaab, Indian Periodical, Peeking Cat, Eunoia review, Somnia Blue and Thirty West Publishing house.