Poetry Reading: Michael Comiskey (South of Pittsburgh: Poems from Northern Appalachia)

Michael Comiskey Poetry Reading
@ Carnegie Library of McKeesport
1507 Library Avenue, McKeesport, PA 15132…
Friday, April 12 at Noon.

https://mckeesportlibrary.org/hours-locations/

Reading from his recent book, South of Pittsburgh: Poems from Northern Appalachia at the McKeesport Public Library on Friday, April 12 at noon. Free. Books available for purchase. 

Copies also available on Amazon.

Michael Comiskey writes short stories but primarily writes poems, many of them Appalachian. He wrote his first poem at age 50. At age 66 he published his first volume of poetry, titled South of Pittsburgh: Poems from Northern Appalachia. He lives in his hometown of Connellsville, Pennsylvania with his wife Mary Ann. He’s retired from teaching political science and economics at Penn State.  The author is a member of the Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange.

This volume of Northern Appalachian poetry employs many traditional and modern poetic forms to survey the human and natural landscapes of that unique and often overlooked region. Featured forms include the sonnet, ballad, haiku, ode, villanelle, elegy, found poem, epigram, narrative poem, and blank and free verse. Topics are as varied as the delicacy of the region’s wildflowers, the devastation wrought by mountaintop removal mining, Northern Appalachian folklore, and the state of the region’s working class.