Frank Lehner Author Event

Join us for an evening of poetry and discussion from author Frank Lehner.

"In his first full-length collection, Frank Lehner delivers a lifetime of earned wisdom, humility, and grace, taking us on pilgrimages to holy sites where we meet his beautiful, flawed saints." - Jim Daniels

"Lehner creates grace and welcomes the stranger. I recognize the richness of dialect and formality in these poems and find my joy in knowing both realities, blending and reverberating." - Judith Vollmer

"...characters come permanently alive in Lehner’s Pittsburgh, where 'there’s always the wonder and magic,' where, despite everything, 'We joy we don’t know we joy. We tomorrow joy. We death joy.'" - John Repp

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Frank Lehner is a writer, educator, and award-winning book designer. He has taught at the University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University, and for President Obama’s Young African Leaders Initiative. His poetry appears in diverse periodicals, and his plays have been staged in Pittsburgh and New York City. He holds a master’s in psychology from Duquesne University. His poetry collection, Mrs. Nussbaum’s Monkey, is from Bottom Dog Press (2025). Fun Fact: Lehner and Jamie Lee Curtis, oddly enough, share the same SAT score.