East End Poets

Poetry" . . . not an option. So "Performing Arts" seemed to be the closest. As people we include great folks:

Charlie Brice
Judy Brice
Ann Curran
Judith Dorian
Mary Kate Florio (Kate)
Sheila Kelly
Marc Jampole (ex-officio, a founder)
Randy Minnich (once in awhile)
Rita Mockus (congratulations on being a mom)
Mike Schneider
Bob Walicki
Arlene Weiner
Ethan Winograd (ace musician)

Eileen Vandergrift (went to the Rocky Mountains)

Marilyn "Bobbi" Bates (1939-2013)

POET BIOS:

CHARLES W. BRICE is the author of Flashcuts Out of Chaos (WordTech Editions, 2016). His poetry has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has appeared in over forty publications including The Kentucky Review, The Atlanta Review, Hawaii Review, Chiron Review, The Dunes Review, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Sport Literate, Avalon Literary Journal, The Paterson Literary Review, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Pittsburgh Poetry Review, Spitball, Barbaric Yawp, VerseWrights, The Writing Disorder, and elsewhere. JUDY BRICE is a retired Pittsburgh psychiatrist whose love of nature and experiences with illness, both her own and that of her patients, inform her work. Her poems have appeared in The Paterson Literary Review, and many Pittsburgh and national publications. Judy’s collected poems have appeared in Renditions in a Palette (David Robert Books, 2013). More recently Judy’s work has appeared in Versewrights.com and is forthcoming in Vox Populi. One of her poems has been set to music by Tony Manfredonia, to be performed by a quintet. ANN CURRAN is author of three books of poetry: Placement Test (Main Street Rag’s Editor’s Choice Chapbook Series, 2005), Me First (Lummox Press, 2013) and Knitting the Andy Warhol Bridge (Lummox Press, 2016). The latest book was nominated for a Pushcart Prize and placed second in poetry from The Author’s Zone in Pittsburgh. She is former long-time editor of Carnegie Mellon Magazine, and staff writer for the Pittsburgh Catholic and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. She is a member of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop as well as the East End Poets. JUDITH DORIAN, Ph.D, co-authored Program Notes for the PSO and wrote for several music journals. She’s given talks for the PSO Music 101 series, the PMCS and the Andy Warhol Museum prior to concerts. Judith narrated with chamber ensemble and orchestra at the Bedford Springs Festival Concerts and on the stage of Mellon Institute. In 2013 she published A Tiny Little Door, a collection of children’s poetry. This spring Judith will teach a class under the auspices of the University of Pittsburgh’s Osher program. Her work has appeared in several poetry journals, most recently the online publication VerseWrights. SHEILA KELLY is a retired psychotherapist who writes poems and plays. She leads writing workshops in libraries, community centers, and art galleries, including the Squirrel Library’s Writers’ Studio, and believes in the special power of generative writing in groups for healing, connection with others and growth in the writing craft. Sheila’s recent poems are in The Comstock Review, Paterson Literary Review and Pittsburgh Poetry Review. She lives with her husband, daughter, two cats, five chickens and several spiders from Mars. MIKE SCHNEIDER. Formerly a lawyer, teacher and award-winning freelance writer, Schneider has published more than 80 poems in literary journals, including New Ohio Review, Notre Dame Review and Poetry. He received the 2012 Editors Award in Poetry from The Florida Review, and won the 2016 Robert Phillips Prize (selected by Richard Foerster) from Texas Review Press, which in 2017 will publish his second chapbook, How Many Faces Do You Have? ROBERT WALICKI’s work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals including Vox Populi and The Kentucky Review. A Pushcart nominee, his most recent chapbook, The Almost Sound of Snow Falling (Night Ballet Press, 2015), was nominated to the 2016 New York Showcase of Books at The Poet's House in NY. ARLENE WEINER has been a college instructor, a cardiology technician, a Shakespeare scholar, an editor, and a member of a team developing computer programs for education — as well as a mom and a den mother. Her poems have been published in journals and anthologies, and read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac. Arlene was awarded a residence at the MacDowell Colony. Ragged Sky Press published two collections of her poetry, Escape Velocity (2006) and City Bird (2016). Arlene also writes plays. Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company will produce her Findings in March.