The Vesper Room Launch Party!
Schedule
Thu, 16 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
brillobox | Pittsburgh, PA
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We're launching the newest poetry collection by Kristofer Collins, "The Vesper Room" into the world in style with a night of readings and music from some of the best writers in town!Doors: 7pm
FREE!
Readings by Daniela Buccilli, Bob Pajich, Anastasia Walker, and Kristofer Collins.
Music by The Electrical Transformer (aka Scott Silsbe)
Bios:
Daniela Buccilli’s poetry can be found in Prime Number Magazine, Watershed, Quarter After Five, Paterson Literary Review, Cimarron Review. Her chapbook is What it Takes to Carry, and her co-edited poetry anthology is Show Us Your Papers (both Main Street Rag). She has writing degrees from University of Pittsburgh and Carlow University. She workshops with the Madwomen in the Attic, teaches in a public high school, and serves as her union’s secretary and the poetry editor at Northern Appalachia Review.
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, Jerry Jazz Musician, 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. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife Dr. Anna Johnson and their children.
Bob Pajich is a writer and musician from Pittsburgh. Author of "The Trolleyman" (Low Ghost Press) and "Everyone, Exquisite" (Liquid Paper Press), he sporadically publishes chapbooks, both his own and others, through his Zeigler Boy Press. His latest include "Little Beers" and "Panda Magic." His poems have appeared in Chiron Review, Pearl, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, New Yinzer Review, and Nerve Cowboy.
The Electrical Transformer is Scott Silsbe. He has 2 cassette tapes–
The Poetics of Space (2020) and Views of Jeopardy/Monolithos (2022).
https://foggybogrecords.bandcamp.com/album/the-poetics-of-space
https://unreadrecords.bandcamp.com/album/unread-282
Maine native Anastasia Walker (she/her/hers) is a queer poet, essayist, and scholar. Her first book of poetry, The Girl Who Wasn’t and Is, was published in 2022. Her essays have appeared in several journals, and she's currently shopping an essay collection subtitled “A Memoir in Shards.” She's on the board of Pittsburgh’s PFLAG chapter, volunteers for the Transgender Law Center’s prison mail program, and is a lover of long walks and swimming in the ocean. She's old school and has a snazzy blog (also called "The Girl Who Wasn't and Is") if anyone is interested in keeping up with her publications, her kitchen adventures, updates on her plants, and other matters of world-historical significance.
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Where is it happening?
brillobox, 4104 Penn Ave,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
