Name: Oddmonth Poetry Reading --Kristofer Collins, Adriana E. Ramirez, and Richard Gegick
Start: 2025-12-06T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-06T20:30:00-05:00
Location: 5002 Penn Ave. Pittsburgh, PA 15224

Oddmonth Poetry Reading --Kristofer Collins, Adriana E. Ramirez, and Richard Gegick

Our annual "November in December" reading takes place on Saturday, December 6th at 7 pm at Bantha Tea Bar, featuring poets/writers Kristofer Collins, Adrianna E. Ramirez, and Richard Gegick.
Bios
Kristofer Collins has been writing about books and their authors professionally for over twenty years. He has spent the last fifteen years as the Books Editor for Pittsburgh Magazine covering the local literary community. He is the author of several poetry collections, including Roundabout Trace published by Kung Fu Treachery Press in 2022. He was the publisher of Low Ghost Press from 2008-2020. His writing has appeared in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The New Yinzer, 1839, LitHub, Belt Magazine, Chiron Review, Nerve Cowboy, Gasconade, Vox Populi, Kidsburgh, Appalachian Journal, The New Antiquarian, Uppagus, and more. He was nominated for a Robert L. Vann Award for Excellence in Written Journalism in 2022. He is co-curator with Joan Bauer of the long-running Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series. The Vesper Room (Luchador Press, 2025) is his latest poetry collection.
Adriana E. Ramírez is a writer, critic, and performance poet based in Pittsburgh. She won the inaugural PEN/Fusion Emerging Writers Prize in 2015 for her novella-length work of nonfiction, Dead Boys (Little A, 2016). Her reviews, essays, and poems have also appeared in The Atlantic, the Los Angeles Times, the Boston Globe, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, ESPN’s The Undefeated, Los Angeles Review of Books, Guernica/PEN America, and Literary Hub among others. She occasionally reviews books for People Magazine. Once a nationally ranked slam poet, she founded the infamous Nasty Slam in Pittsburgh and continues to perform on stages around the country. She and novelist Angie Cruz founded Aster(ix) Journal, a literary journal giving voice to the censored and the marginalized. Her debut full-length work of nonfiction, The Violence, is forthcoming from Scribner.
Richard Gegick is from Trafford, PA. His first full-length collection of poetry, GREASY HANDSHAKES, was published by WPA Press in 2019. A 20-year service industry veteran, he currently tends bar on Pittsburgh's North Side. Tip him well.