Juneteenth Poetry Night with the Pittsburgh Poetry Society

Join our friends from the Pittsburgh Poetry Society for an evening of poetry in celebration of Juneteenth. Poets will include:

Lorena Amos-Brock won a Pittsburgh Public School Literacy Champion Award. She is a former elementary and high school English teacher, also a Reading Specialist and a Literacy Coach. Her goal was always to inspire students to use reading and writing as tools for growth-- and as historical bookmarks. To endorse the power of reading, she formed book clubs-for teenage girls and women. She is the co-founder of the United Black Book Clubs of Pittsburgh, which meets at the Homewood Library. literary activities at the Homewood Library. She serves as the Historian for the Sub-verses Social Collective of Poetry.

Doralee Brooks is a facilitator for the Madwomen in the Attic poetry workshops at Carlow University and professor emerita of the Community College of Allegheny County in Developmental Studies. She’s a fellow of the Western PA Writing Project (1995) and Cave Canem (1997 and 99). Doralee holds an MEd from the University of Pittsburgh and an MFA from Carlow. Her poems have appeared in Voices from the Attic, Paterson Literary Review, Pittsburgh Poetry Review and Uppagus among others. Doralee’s chapbook When I Hold You Up to the Light won the 2019 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest at Main Street Rag. She edited an anthology of poems about Pittsburgh, The Gulf Tower Expects Rain, during her tenure as City of Asylum’s Poet Laureate (2022 – 2024).

Gwendolyn A. Mitchell is a poet, literary consultant, and editor. Mitchell is the author of the poetry collection, House of Women. She currently lives in Pittsburgh and is a member of the (sub)Verses Social Collective, Friday Afternoon Poets, and is mentor for the Madwomen in the Attic community of writers.