Come hear Olean’s own Helen Ruggieri whose poems and essays have been published in over one hundred magazines and more than two dozen anthologies as well as her own books. Ruggieri studied with William Stafford at the Atlantic Center for the Arts and with John Balaban at Penn State where she received her MFA, she then went on to teach in the writing program of the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford for twenty years. Helen and her husband started Allegany Mountain Press in the 1970s which began her active involvement in the larger poetry community.