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Two Pittsburgh poets will be the featured readers at Lit Youngstown's next First Wednesday Reader Series event.
Diane Kerr, a longtime member of Carlow University's Madwomen in the Attic Creative Writing Workshops in Pittsburgh, holds a master's degree from Warren Wilson. Published in Alaska Quarterly Review, Pearl, Poetry East, and the Mississippi Review among others, her second book, "Perigee," won the Brittingham Prize in 2020.
Nancy Krygowski is the author of "The Woman in the Corner," one of Library Journal's top 100 (or so) poetry books of 2020, and "Velocity," winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize.
She is co-editor of the Pitt Poetry Series, an instructor in the Madwomen in the Attic writing program and the former Pittsburgh bureau chief and staff meteorologist/poet for Tiny Day.
The program starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Westside Bowl, 2617 Mahoning Ave., Youngstown, in its Trophy Room which is accessible only by stairs. It will be followed by an open mic. ASL interpretation will be provided
Admission is free, and the series is made possible by POP! Art Books Culture.