Pam O’Brien
Pam’s CV includes the well-earned titles of poet, professor emerita and Associate Director of Public and Professional Writing – University of Pittsburgh, mentor, founder of First Friday Poets, and longtime member of the Salsbury Hill Poets, Chautauqua, NY, and the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Her work includes chapbooks and full-length collections that explore memory, family, loss, aging, and the stories that shape a life.
Pam has influenced generations of writers through both her teaching and her poetry.
Pam O’Brien at Squirrel Hill Poets
University of Pittsburgh tribute to Pam O’Brien
Poetry Collections
The following represent Pam O’Brien’s published poetry, spanning decades of work as a writer, teacher, and mentor.
Kaleidoscopes
Out of print
Paper Dancing
Out of print
Acceptable Losses
Out of print
Just That Simple
Out of print
First Friday Poets and Tangled Threads
Pam O’Brien founded First Friday Poets, a poetry workshop whose members meet on the first Friday of each month to share work, offer critiques, and encourage one another’s creative growth.
The group’s collaborative spirit culminated in Tangled Threads: An Anthology, a collection featuring the work of First Friday Poets members. Pam was instrumental in the development of the anthology and is represented by several poems in the collection.
