Joseph Bathanti

Joseph Bathanti: 13th Sunday After Pentecost

With Music by Sus Long & Michael Conner

Come join us at The Regulator for a much-needed evening of poetry and music! Poet Joseph Bathanti comes to The Regulator Bookshop with his newest book of poetry, The 13th Sunday After Pentecost, for a reading and booksigning. In The 13th Sunday after Pentecost, he offers poems that delve deep into a life reimagined through a mythologized past. Moving from his childhood to the present, weaving through the Italian immigrant streets of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to his parochial school, from the ballpark to church and home again, these contemplative poems present a situation unique to the poet but familiar to us all. Bathanti’s readings will be interspersed with the sublime music of Sus Long and Michael Conner. Two working pastors, Long and Conner are often in conversation about faith and grace, love and grief, and the threads that hold all things together. Formed by novels and poems, morning news, late-night theology, and the stories of the people around them, their music has taken them from festival stages to prison chapels as they explore the work of the modern psalmist.

Free and open to the public. Co-sponsored by the Forum for Scholars and Publics.