The Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts contains the 400-seat Paul R. and Margery Wolf-Kuhn Theatre, a dance studio, two visual art studies studios, faculty offices, a Macintosh computer lab, and three conference rooms. The lobby area of the building also houses the McLanahan and Sheetz Art Galleries, the Titelman Study, and the box office. The Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts hosts cultural and performing art series and theater productions, as well as special events throughout the year.
ALTOONA, Pa. — A poetry reading by Sheila Carter-Jones will take place on Tuesday, April 15, at 12:10 p.m. in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at Penn State Altoona.
Poet Sheila Carter-Jones
Carter-Jones earned her bachelor of arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University and a master of education and doctorate from the University of Pittsburgh. She also has a master of fine arts degree from Carlow University and teaches in its "Madwoman in the Attic" writing program.
Carter-Jones was born and raised in a small coal mining town in Western Pennsylvania, the site and muse for many of her poems. She is a fellow of Cave Canem, the home for African American poets.
Her manuscript “Three Birds Deep” was selected as the winner of the Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Book Award. Her chapbook “Crooked Star Dream Book” was runner-up for the New York Center for Book Arts Chapbook Contest, and her chapbook “Elegy-ish” was the winner of the recent Allison Joseph Chapbook contest. Her poetry has been published in several anthologies, magazines, newspapers, and journals, including the “South Dakota Review,” the “Pennsylvania Review,” and the “Pittsburgh Poetry Review.”
Her newest collection is titled “Every Hard Sweetness.”
