November 29, 2009

Pittsburgh Lit Events November 29 - December 6

Tuesday, November 31:

Hungry Sphinx Reading Series: Fall Finale
Weekly poetry and fiction series featuring area students and writers fills the upper
room of the Sphinx Hookah Cafe. Liz Gowers, Jess Olridge, and Laurie Lacey read for
Carlow University Senior Night.
Sphinx Cafe
401 Atwood St Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm - free - (421) 621-1153


Friday, December 4:

Gist Street Reading Series
Featuring Mathias Svalina (poetry) and Allison Amend (fiction).
James Simon Sculpture Studio (3rd floor)
305 Gist St Pittsburgh, PA (Uptown)
8:00pm – $5 - (412) 434-5629


TypewriterGirls @ Remedy's Speak Easy/Talk Dirty
The TypewriterGirls host Remedy Bar and Lounge's Speak Easy/Talk Dirty. Featuring
the cross-genre writers Laura Davis and Karen Lillis, burlesque dancer and performance
artist Cuntess Von Tella of the Bridge City Bombshells, experimental musician Dean
Cercone
, and DJ Randy Spinster.
Remedy Bar and Lounge
5121 Butler St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
9:30pm - $6 - (412) 781-6771


Sunday, December 6:

WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
TypewriterGirls: Save the Libraries!
The TypewriterGirls bring their poetry cabaret to help raise awareness and funding for
the Carnegie Libraries of Pittsburgh. Featuring The TypewriterGirls and a host of their
friends including Sandra Beasley, Nancy Krygowski, Phat Man Dee, Christiane D, Franco
Dok Harris
, and many more!
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Main Lecture Hall
4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
5:30pm - donations! - (412) 578-2586



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November 22, 2009

Pittsburgh Lit Events November 22 - 29

Monday, November 23:

WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
Stephen Elliott Reading
Stephen Elliott stops in Pittsburgh to read from his critically-acclaimed book The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Greywolf Press, 2009). The New Yinzer's
Kris Collins and Savannah Guz open.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:30pm - $4
- (412) 362-0274


Sunday, November 29:

Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Renee Alberts
The Carnegie Library welcomes poet Renee Alberts.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412) 622-3116


HAPPY THANKSGIVING FROM WEAVE!


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November 15, 2009

Pittsburgh Lit Events November 15 - 22

Monday, November 16:

Drue Heinz Lecture Series - Junot Diaz
Junot Diaz, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
(Riverhead, 2007) speaks in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:30pm - $35+ - (412) 622-8866


Tuesday, November 17:

Hungry Sphinx Reading Series: Sophie Klahr
Weekly poetry and fiction series featuring area students and writers fills the upper
room of the Sphinx Hookah Cafe. Area poet Sophie Klahr is featured.
Sphinx Cafe
401 Atwood St Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm - free - (421) 621-1153


Steel City Poetry Slam
Hosted by DJ Brewer

Local poets perform slam poetry
Shadow Lounge
972 Baum Blvd Pittsburgh, PA (East Liberty)
9:00pm(18+) - $5
- (412) 363-8277


Wednesday, November 18:

The New Yinzer Presents
Join The New Yinzer for the fall season finale of TNYPresents
. Featured writers include
Chuck Kinder, Karl Hendricks, and Brendan Kerr with music by Scott Silsbe, Kurt Garrison,
and Mark Mangini
.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5 (free w/ pot luck contribution)
- (412) 362-0274


Thursday, November 19:

Sixth Annual ACLU Bill of Rights Poetry Reading
Join Pittsburgh ACLU and emcee Joan E. Bauer for an evening of poetry. Featured poets
include Ed Ochester, Madeleine Barnes, Romella Kitchens, Michael Simms, and many more.

Adamson Wing
Baker Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:00pm - $20(ACLU Membership)/$10(seniors)/$5(students) - (412) 681-7736

Goal Project Spoken Word Event
Open mic fundraiser for the Global Outreach for Addiction Leadership & Learning Project.

Square Cafe
1137 S Braddock Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Regent Square)
6:00pm - $? - (724) 961-1890


Saturday, November 21:

Six Gallery Press Presents: People Reading Stuff!
Six Gallery Press welcomes a host of its friends for its final event of 2009. Readers include
Che Elias, Kristofer Collins, Bob Pajich, M. Callen, Paco Mahone, Scott Silsbe, Karen Lillis,
Don Wentworth, Zoe Goehring, Bill Hughes, Jonathan Loucks, and Weave Magazine's Laura
Davis
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5
- (412) 362-0274



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November 8, 2009

Pittsburgh Lit Events November 8 - 15

Sunday, November 8:

Pittsburgh Poetry Series: Collective Voices
Pittsburgh Poetry Series holds its first event, welcoming the Pittsburgh Poetry
Society.
Shirley Stevens will moderate. Particpants will include Anne Picone,
Edna Machesney, Dorothy Holley, Nancy Esther James, Jeen-Shang Lin, Marilyn
Marsh Noll, and Christine Doreian Michaels.
Father Ryan Arts Center
420 Chartiers Ave McKees Rocks, PA
7:00pm - $10 - (412) 771-3052


Tuesday, November 10:

Hungry Sphinx Reading Series: Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Weekly poetry and fiction series featuring area students and writers fills the upper
room of the Sphinx Hookah Cafe. Jaimee Wriston Colbert reads from her novel Shark
Girls (Livingston Press, 2009).
Sphinx Cafe
401 Atwood St Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm - free - (421) 621-1153



Wednesday, November 11:

Jaimee Wriston Colbert
Jaimee Wriston Colbert reads and discusses new her novel, Shark Girls (Livingston Press, 2009).
Carlow University
106 Aquinas Hall
3333 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
12:30pm - free - (412) 578-8749


Thursday, November 12:

Vanessa Hidary - "The Hebrew Mamita"
The Hillel JUC of Pittsburgh and the University of Pittsburgh Poetry Club welcome Vanessa
Hidary, a.k.a. The Hebrew Mamita
, actress, artist, and poet. Vanessa has been featured on
Def Poetry Jam, and in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival's The Tribe.
University of Pittsburgh
Public Health Auditorium
130 DeSoto St Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:00pm - free - (412) 621-8875


Friday, November 13:

Friday the 13th Reading
Area writers share their work at MoFo. Featuring Sally Wen Mao, Brenda Battad, and The Cyberpunk Apocalypse's Elwin Cotman & Dan McCloskey.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $3



Saturday, November 14:

Voices from the Attic Volume XV Release Party
The Madwomen in the Attic, Carlow University-based writing collective, celebrate Volume XV
of Voices from the Attic. Featuring Jan Beatty, Ellen McGrath Smith, Evelyn Pierce, Nancy Raynovich, and Stacey Waite.
WYEP Community Broadcast Center
67 Bedford Sq Pittsburgh, PA (Southside)
7:00pm - free - (412) 381-9131

The Poetry of Words & Music
Featuring Leslie Anne McIlroy (poetry) & Don Bertschman (music), and Eve & John's Music Night.
Arefa's Espresso
5827 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Squirrel Hill)
7:30pm - $? - (412) 241-2049


Sunday, November 15:

Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Judith Vollmer
The Carnegie Library welcomes poet Judith Vollmer.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412) 622-3116




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November 6, 2009

The Regional Review

The good people over at Open Thread are presently putting together a collection of the best regional work to come out of Pennsylvania, Ohio, and West Virginia between October 2008 and October 2009, and have invited Weave to nominate some of our fine writers and artists for this collection. After much debate and deilberation, Weave has nominated the following writers and artists for The Regional Review, Vol. 2

Poetry:

Frank DePoole - "The Night Shift"
Crystal Hoffman - "Black Snake"
Laura Hirneisen - "Romeo"
Rachel Mallino - "The Arrow of Time"
Karen J. Weyant - "The Girl Who Could Catch Echoes"
Brian R. Young - "In Praise of the Cow"

Artwork:

Heidi Richardson Evans
Nashay Jones

November 1, 2009

Pittsburgh Lit Events November 1 - 8

Monday, November 2:

Drue Heinz Lecture Series - Tom Wolfe
Tom Wolfe, American Book Award-winning author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1968), The Bonfire of the Vanities (Bantam , 1987), and
Back to Blood (Little, Brown, and Co. , 2009) speaks in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:30pm - $35+ - (412) 622-8866

WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
Save the Libraries Reading & Dance Party
Join The Cyberpunk Apocalypse, Open Thread, Encyclopedia Destructica, and other
members of the Literary Community in support of our Libraries. Featuring Karen Lillis,
Adam Atkinson, Sara Labuff, Todd Faultin, and more. Dancing and library activism info, too!

Belvedere's
4016 Butler St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $2+(donation-based)


Tuesday, November 3:

Hungry Sphinx Reading Series: Roberta Foizey and Louis Boyle
Weekly poetry and fiction series featuring area students and writers fills the upper
room of the Sphinx Hookah Cafe. Roberta Foizey and Louis Boyle are featured.
Sphinx Cafe
401 Atwood St Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm - free - (421) 621-1153


Thursday, November 5:

Michael Simms Chapbook Release Reading
Area poet Michael Simms reads from his new chapbook Black Stone.
Té Café

2000 Murray Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Squirrel Hill)

7:00pm - Free -
(412)422-8888


Peter Oresick Reading
Reading from his book Warhol-O-rama (CMU Press, 2008).
University of Pittsburgh Greensburg
150 Finoli Dr Greensburg, PA
7:00pm - free- (724)837-7040

Discover Your Voice Kick-Off
The End the Silence Campaign kicks off "Discover Your Voice," a new writing workshop
designed to empower survivors of sexual violence. Featuring various
poets and musicians.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5


Carnegie Mellon Creative Writing Student Reading
Featuring Tom Pike, Jackie Sizemore, Alex Yuschik, and Amy Zhang.
Gladys Schmitt Creative Writing Center
260 Baker Hall
Carnegie Mellon University
5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm - free

Pitt Contemporary Writers Series Presents: C.D. Wright
Griffin Poetry Prize-winning author of Rising, Falling, Hovering (Copper Canyon
Press, 2008) reads her work. The reading will be followed by an interview
on "The Future
of Poetry"
moderated by Cave Canem poet Dawn Lundy Martin.
University of Pittsburgh
Frick Fine Arts Building
- Room 125
Schenley Dr Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:30pm - free - (412) 624-4125


Friday, November 6:

Gist Street Reading Series
Featuring Atsuro Riley (poetry) and Pia Z. Ehrhardt (non-fiction).
James Simon Sculpture Studio (3rd floor)
305 Gist St Pittsburgh, PA (Uptown)
8:00pm – $5 - (412) 434-5629


Girls With Glasses Launch Party
Poets Stacey Waite and Renee Albert read in celebration of new literary journal
Girls With Glasses
.
Remedy
5121 Butler St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrencville)
10:00pm - $? - (412) 781-6771


Sunday, November 8:

Pittsburgh Poetry Series: Collective Voices
Pittsburgh Poetry Series holds its first event, welcoming the Pittsburgh Poetry
Society.
Shirley Stevens will moderate. Particpants will include Anne Picone,
Edna Machesney, Dorothy Holley, Nancy Esther James, Jeen-Shang Lin, Marilyn
Marsh Noll, and Christine Doreian Michaels.
Father Ryan Arts Center
420 Chartiers Ave McKees Rocks, PA
7:00pm - $? - (412) 771-3052




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