Poetry Reading with the Pittsburgh Poetry Society

MLPL welcomes back our friends from the Pittsburgh Poetry Society for a reading. This time around we hear from

Judy Yogman, Karen Howard, Fred Peterson, and Annie Black.

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.

Fred has been a member of Pittsburgh Poetry Society for over thirty years and has served in various capacities including President. He is originally from Arkansas where he began teaching in the early 1960s after which he moved to the St. Louis area for several years and then moved on to the Pittsburgh area where and his husband of 50+ years live comfortably with their feline companion - Archie.

Annie Black has written poetry from time to time since childhood. She loves W.H. Auden, William Yeats, Sara Teasdale, and Andrea Gibson. Her favorite excerpt from a poem is from Auden's classic "September 1, 1939":
May I, composed like them 
Of Eros and of dust, 
Beleaguered by the same 
Negation and despair, 
Show an affirming flame.