Cold rain in Pittsburgh, by Danielle McMahon

Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Pittsburgh is a unique city—an in-between space bridging the Northeast and Midwest of the United States.  It is at once a small town and big city.  For many onto larger things, Pittsburgh is a blip on the map, a through-town, and yet to those who stay, those whose people have always stayed, their stories are woven into its streets like marrow.   Cold rain in Pittsburgh is a collection of poems exploring the deep connection between one’s home and one’s self.  Rooted in themes of identity and family, these poems chart the author’s experience of transience, belonging, and loss.  A hometown becomes a testimony, a haven, a snare, and beacon.  The story of the self is threaded through this unique regional lens. Danielle McMahon is a mom of two and occasional poet.  Her work has appeared in journals such as Literary Mama, The F-Word (Upenn), Vilas Avenue, The Woolf, and elsewhere.  She is editor of the engine(idling, an online literary magazine.  She lives in Pennsylvania with her family.