bio/contact

Renée Alberts listens to rivers and shortwave radio to create poetry, collage, sound, and photography. Her poetry collection, No Water, came out in 2009, and her work has appeared in The New Yinzer, Encyclopedia Destructica, Pittsburgh City Paper and Subtletea.
She has given dozens of readings, including on WYEP’s Prosody, WRCT's A Live Show, and as a 2001 and 2004 member of the Steel City Slam Team.
She organizes numerous poetry and music events, including the long-running WordsSwordsWords showcase and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry & Reading Series, for which she edited Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry and Reading Series Anthology, a collection that includes the work of 35 academic, experimental, and spoken word poets. In 2010, she embarked on the Cut and Run Word Tour with inksister Nikki Allen.


View samples of Alberts' poems. Contact her to book a reading or for other inquiries. 
Visit the events page for a calendar of upcoming readings.


publication
books
  • No Water. Renée Alberts. Speed and Briscoe Books, 2009.
  • Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry and Reading Series Anthology. Renée Alberts, editor. Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 2010.
anthologies
    literary magazines
    • Moloch, August 2010, Yuga (collage)
    • Pittsburgh City Paper, "Chapter and Verse," December 10, 2009, "My Ex-Father Eats a Live Honeybee"
    • The New Yinzer, Winter 2008-2009, "cloth mother/wire mother," "Inherit," "Good Friday"
    • SubtleTea, June-September 2009, "Palm Sunday," "Orbweaver," "My Ex-Father Eats a Live Honeybee"
    • The New Yinzer, Spring 2008 guest columnist for "Local Voyeur"
    audio

    radio
    • Guest host for Prosody, 91.3fm WYEP's weekly show featuring the work of poets and writers:
      • Christiane Leach interviewed by guest host Renée Alberts - air date 10/13/2010 podcast
      • David Herrle interviewed by guest host Renée Alberts -air date 1/5/2011  
      • Kelli Stevens Kane interviewed by guest host Renée Alberts -air date 1/2011
      • Sophie Klahr interviewed by guest host Renée Alberts -air date 1/2011

    recordings
    reviews
      interviews
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