Poets Aloud: A celebration of international poetry
When
Oct 15, 2026
7:00 pm- 9:00 pm
Where
Carnegie Library Lecture Hall
4400 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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P. Scott Cunningham is the author of Self-Portrait as the “i” in Florida
(Autumn House, 2026), winner of the 2025 Donald Justice Poetry Prize,
and Ya Te Veo (University of Arkansas, 2018), selected for the Miller
Williams Poetry Series and a finalist for the National Poetry Series.
His poems, essays, and translations have appeared in The Nation,
American Poetry Review, Gulf Coast, POETRY, A Public Space,
Harvard Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Monocle, and
The Guardian, among others. Born and raised in South Florida,
he lives with his family in Illinois.
Born in 1978 in Santo Domingo, Frank Báez has made a name for
himself as one of the Dominican Republic’s most relevant poets and
nonfiction writers. He has published six poetry books, a short story
collection, and four nonfiction books. He is a founding member of
El Hombrecito, the first Dominican Spoken Word band, which has
three albums to its credit. His work has appeared in numerous
anthologies, and translations of his books of poetry have been
published in Arabic, Dutch, German, and Bangla. Two of his books
have been translated into English: Last Night I Dreamt I Was a DJ (2014)
and The End of the World Came to My Neighborhood (2022).
Sony Ton-Aime is the Executive Director of Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures
and the author of Konbit (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2026).