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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

Get tickets here.

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).

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