Tuesday, December 15:
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
Sunday, November 29:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Che Elias
The Carnegie Library welcomes poet Che Elias.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412) 622-3116
HAPPY HOLIDAYS FROM WEAVE!
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
December 13, 2009
December 6, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events December 6 - 13
Sunday, December 6:
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
Tuesday, December 8:
Winter Shorts Reading
Featuring Craig Bernier, Savannah Schroll Guz, Ben Tanzer.
Té Café
2000 Murray Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Squirrel Hill)
7:00pm - Free - (412)422-8888
Friday, December 11:
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
The New Yinzer Special Edition
The New Yinzer welcomes poets John Grochalski, Ally Malinenko, local favorites Ed Steck, Renee Alberts, Jessica Fenlon, and Weave's own Margaret Bashaar & Joel W. Coggins.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5 (free w/ pot luck contribution) - (412) 362-0274
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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
Tuesday, December 8:
Winter Shorts Reading
Featuring Craig Bernier, Savannah Schroll Guz, Ben Tanzer.
Té Café
2000 Murray Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Squirrel Hill)
7:00pm - Free - (412)422-8888
Friday, December 11:
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
The New Yinzer Special Edition
The New Yinzer welcomes poets John Grochalski, Ally Malinenko, local favorites Ed Steck, Renee Alberts, Jessica Fenlon, and Weave's own Margaret Bashaar & Joel W. Coggins.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5 (free w/ pot luck contribution) - (412) 362-0274
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
December 3, 2009
At Night the Dead by Lisa Ciccarello
Jacques Derrida, in an essay concerning the German poet, Paul Celan, speaks of the poet as witness to the death of language and poetry as its site of resurrection. In this view, the act of writing poetry becomes intimately related to the poet’s ability to inhabit the space in between; the foreign and the familiar, the cut and the seam, the metaphorical Limbo. In At Night, The Dead, Lisa Ciccarello explores this relationship between poetry, language, and death in a series of beautifully constructed vignettes, each beginning with the line, At night, the dead:
The vignettes in Ciccarello’s collection range in length from half a sentence to several paragraphs, but the themes are constant and recurring: salt, coin, milk, soap, roots, home, sign. Like Gertrude Stein’s, Tender Buttons, Ciccarello is able to take the trite and mundane subject (for Stein – food, objects, rooms; for Ciccarello – the foreboding, the haunt, the dead) and transform it into something else altogether.
The imagery that Ciccarello evokes is, like the subject and the space that precedes it, at once familiar and foreign. The mood is sinister, yet nostalgic, neurotic, yet deviant, all inhabiting the same moment:
At night, inside the house, the dead:
A saucer rimmed with gilt, a sweet I hold my hands over. Later, you palm my blacked-out ankles. Later I wet your palm with my tongue. Warm is what we want.
At night, the dead:
In the time before the dead there were no coins. Regardless, when certain fish then jumped their eyes were coins made luminous by the luminous coin of the moon which was part of the earth almost recently enough to still remember the heat.
Meanwhile, the style of At Night, The Dead reminds us of Stein: think prose that is not prose, repetition of words and images, ignoring proper grammar and syntax. The emphasis is on words and the interplay of words, the signs and images they signify. Ciccarello’s shortest pieces provide the best examples:
At night, the dead:
A little story: salt & grave. Of the finger: the thrice motion: a sign.
At night, the dead:
Linen on the line: diamond: it takes the dead hours to make the sign: soon.
It is clear that the tropes that Ciccarello is working with: the undead, magic, protection, and shamanism are being reconfigured into a refreshingly new narrative. The arc of the collection is dark, a darkness that is surrounding and all-pervasive, but brought together with patches of light and the search for a light that will stay. Towards the end of the collection:
At night, the dead, the perfect inside is outside:
The house is always lit by a flame we can’t blow out. We watch the wick blacken to measure the hour. Our mouths draw close. The flame does not flicker.
The experience of reading At Night, the Dead, sheds light on the idea that, “Nature is a haunted house but Art is a house that tries to be haunted.” Ciccarello’s poems are haunting, in more ways than one. In them, we are confronted both by our old understanding of poetry and the undead, as well as Cicarello’s vision of the new.
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Lisa Ciccarello is a boutique, with boutique hours: http://punchinglittlebirdsintheface.blogspot.com/
At Night, the Dead is published by Blood Pudding Press: www.bloodyooze.blogspot.com
To purchase: BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com
Review by Jen Lue
The vignettes in Ciccarello’s collection range in length from half a sentence to several paragraphs, but the themes are constant and recurring: salt, coin, milk, soap, roots, home, sign. Like Gertrude Stein’s, Tender Buttons, Ciccarello is able to take the trite and mundane subject (for Stein – food, objects, rooms; for Ciccarello – the foreboding, the haunt, the dead) and transform it into something else altogether.
The imagery that Ciccarello evokes is, like the subject and the space that precedes it, at once familiar and foreign. The mood is sinister, yet nostalgic, neurotic, yet deviant, all inhabiting the same moment:
At night, inside the house, the dead:
A saucer rimmed with gilt, a sweet I hold my hands over. Later, you palm my blacked-out ankles. Later I wet your palm with my tongue. Warm is what we want.
At night, the dead:
In the time before the dead there were no coins. Regardless, when certain fish then jumped their eyes were coins made luminous by the luminous coin of the moon which was part of the earth almost recently enough to still remember the heat.
Meanwhile, the style of At Night, The Dead reminds us of Stein: think prose that is not prose, repetition of words and images, ignoring proper grammar and syntax. The emphasis is on words and the interplay of words, the signs and images they signify. Ciccarello’s shortest pieces provide the best examples:
At night, the dead:
A little story: salt & grave. Of the finger: the thrice motion: a sign.
At night, the dead:
Linen on the line: diamond: it takes the dead hours to make the sign: soon.
It is clear that the tropes that Ciccarello is working with: the undead, magic, protection, and shamanism are being reconfigured into a refreshingly new narrative. The arc of the collection is dark, a darkness that is surrounding and all-pervasive, but brought together with patches of light and the search for a light that will stay. Towards the end of the collection:
At night, the dead, the perfect inside is outside:
The house is always lit by a flame we can’t blow out. We watch the wick blacken to measure the hour. Our mouths draw close. The flame does not flicker.
The experience of reading At Night, the Dead, sheds light on the idea that, “Nature is a haunted house but Art is a house that tries to be haunted.” Ciccarello’s poems are haunting, in more ways than one. In them, we are confronted both by our old understanding of poetry and the undead, as well as Cicarello’s vision of the new.
-
Lisa Ciccarello is a boutique, with boutique hours: http://punchinglittlebirdsintheface.blogspot.com/
At Night, the Dead is published by Blood Pudding Press: www.bloodyooze.blogspot.com
To purchase: BloodPuddingPress.etsy.com
Review by Jen Lue
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
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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!
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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!
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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
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:
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
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
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
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
October 25, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events October 25 - November 1
Tuesday, October 27:
Hungry Sphinx Reading Series: Victoria Dym and Brian Francis
Weekly poetry and fiction series featuring area students and writers fills the upper
room of the Sphinx Hookah Cafe. Brian Francis and Victoria Dym are featured.
Sphinx Cafe
401 Atwood St Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm - free - (421) 621-1153
Wednesday, October 27:
the break/s: a mixtape for the stage
Multimedia performance by spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Downtown)
7:00pm - $28.00/$22.50 - (412) 258-2700
Thursday, October 28:
Hey! Zine Reading
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
6:00pm - free – (412) 622-3151
Open Thread Presents: Variety! Variety! Variety!
Open Thread presents another installment of music, comedy, and video performance.
Costumed guests receive a discount at the door.
Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm(21+) - $6
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
Hungry Sphinx Reading Series: Victoria Dym and Brian Francis
Weekly poetry and fiction series featuring area students and writers fills the upper
room of the Sphinx Hookah Cafe. Brian Francis and Victoria Dym are featured.
Sphinx Cafe
401 Atwood St Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm - free - (421) 621-1153
Wednesday, October 27:
the break/s: a mixtape for the stage
Multimedia performance by spoken word artist Marc Bamuthi Joseph.
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Downtown)
7:00pm - $28.00/$22.50 - (412) 258-2700
Thursday, October 28:
Hey! Zine Reading
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
6:00pm - free – (412) 622-3151
Open Thread Presents: Variety! Variety! Variety!
Open Thread presents another installment of music, comedy, and video performance.
Costumed guests receive a discount at the door.
Brillobox
4104 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm(21+) - $6
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
October 19, 2009
Weave Magazine Issue 03 Contributor List
Weave Magazine: Issue 03 Contributors & Titles
*Poetry*
Colleen Abel
At the Tomb of the Unmarried Woman
Arlene Ang
Feeding the Husband
Neil Aitken
Programmer F, Descending
Adam Atkinson
The Town Historian
Brenda Battad
Barberry Bush Turns Girl Into Barberry Bush
Jessie Carty
Scientific Method
Rob Cook
Burning Animals
Nicelle Davis
In the Hour of Temptation, I Get My Punk-Rock Self Back
Nicole Cartwright Denison
Seeing an End to the Good Times, Such as They Were
Visitation (I).
Marie Gauthier
Recondite
Brent Goodman
2
3
5
Armine Iknadossian
Birdbread
Sally Rosen Kindred
Sabrina, Borne
Sally Wen Mao
Escape from the Midnight Opera
For My Brussels Burglar
Rebecca Mertz
Elegies in Search of the Dog 1
Elegies in Search of the Dog 2
Tara Broeckel Ooten
Stage Directions
Weather Forecasting and Husbandry
Michelle Potgeter
In Spirit
Only Transactions
Jay Snodgrass
Synthetic Island
Sarah Sousa
Coracle
Sheryl St. Germain
The Healer
The Hermit
Ronnie K. Stephens
Asymmetry
Huang Xiang
Murasaki Shikibu (cover poem)
Felicia Zamora
Because I Know
Moth Making
*Fiction*
Roxane Gay
Cheap, Fast, Filling
*Interview*
with Huang Xiang and William Rock, by Margaret Bashaar
*Drama*
Robert Isenberg
Enough Rope
*Artwork*
Karl Goodrich
1
Dave Mims
Untitled
William Rock
Murasaki Shikibu (cover art)
Huang Xiang Labyrinth Center
Sumo Sculpture
*Poetry*
Colleen Abel
At the Tomb of the Unmarried Woman
Arlene Ang
Feeding the Husband
Neil Aitken
Programmer F, Descending
Adam Atkinson
The Town Historian
Brenda Battad
Barberry Bush Turns Girl Into Barberry Bush
Jessie Carty
Scientific Method
Rob Cook
Burning Animals
Nicelle Davis
In the Hour of Temptation, I Get My Punk-Rock Self Back
Nicole Cartwright Denison
Seeing an End to the Good Times, Such as They Were
Visitation (I).
Marie Gauthier
Recondite
Brent Goodman
2
3
5
Armine Iknadossian
Birdbread
Sally Rosen Kindred
Sabrina, Borne
Sally Wen Mao
Escape from the Midnight Opera
For My Brussels Burglar
Rebecca Mertz
Elegies in Search of the Dog 1
Elegies in Search of the Dog 2
Tara Broeckel Ooten
Stage Directions
Weather Forecasting and Husbandry
Michelle Potgeter
In Spirit
Only Transactions
Jay Snodgrass
Synthetic Island
Sarah Sousa
Coracle
Sheryl St. Germain
The Healer
The Hermit
Ronnie K. Stephens
Asymmetry
Huang Xiang
Murasaki Shikibu (cover poem)
Felicia Zamora
Because I Know
Moth Making
*Fiction*
Roxane Gay
Cheap, Fast, Filling
*Interview*
with Huang Xiang and William Rock, by Margaret Bashaar
*Drama*
Robert Isenberg
Enough Rope
*Artwork*
Karl Goodrich
1
Dave Mims
Untitled
William Rock
Murasaki Shikibu (cover art)
Huang Xiang Labyrinth Center
Sumo Sculpture
Weave Review on Newpages!
Weave would like to express our gratitude to Newpages.com and Terri Denton for the lovely review of our second issue. We are so pleased that they felt our vision - Writing •Art • Diversity • Community - came shining through the work published in our pages. An excerpt:"An unpretentious magazine like Weave might be overlooked for its small, chapbook style format, but to pass this issue by would be a mistake of literary consequence. Subtitled “Writing •Art • Diversity • Community,” the editors of Weave could not have thought of anything better than these words, for they are all to be found within the magazine’s covers."
Congrats to all the Weave contributors, especially Frank, Davka, Devon, J. Richard, Scott and Andrena, whose work were all mentioned specifically in the review. We also hope that Weave will flourish and "stand taller" as we continue to bring you the best in contemporary art and literary work.
October 12, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events October 12 - 18
Wednesday, October 14:
August Wilson Center Presents: An Evening of Poetry
feat Terrance Hayes, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Downtown)
7:00pm - free - (412) 338-8722
Drue Heinz Literature Prize Award Ceremony
Anne Sanow, recipient of the 2009 Drue Heinz Lit Prize, reads from her work,
as selected by 2009 judge, Ann Patchett.
University of Pittsburgh
Frick Fine Arts Building - Room 125
Schenley Dr Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:30pm - free - (412) 624-4125
Thursday, October 14:
Afaa Michael Weaver
The poet reads and discusses his work.
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning - Room 501
4200 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
12:00 noon - free - (412) 624-9341
Anne Sanow Presents "The Writer's Life"
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning - Room 501
4200 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
6:30pm - free - (412) 624-6508
Saturday, October 17:
Poetry Reading & Writing Workshop
The Langston Hughes Poetry Society presents a poetry reading & open writing workshop.
Carnegie Library Homewood
7101 Hamilton Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Homewood)
? - free - (412) 731-3080
Sunday, October 18:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Stacey Waite
The Carnegie Library welcomes poet Stacey Waite.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412) 622-3151
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
August Wilson Center Presents: An Evening of Poetry
feat Terrance Hayes, Afaa Michael Weaver, and Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon
August Wilson Center for African American Culture
980 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Downtown)
7:00pm - free - (412) 338-8722
Drue Heinz Literature Prize Award Ceremony
Anne Sanow, recipient of the 2009 Drue Heinz Lit Prize, reads from her work,
as selected by 2009 judge, Ann Patchett.
University of Pittsburgh
Frick Fine Arts Building - Room 125
Schenley Dr Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:30pm - free - (412) 624-4125
Thursday, October 14:
Afaa Michael Weaver
The poet reads and discusses his work.
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning - Room 501
4200 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
12:00 noon - free - (412) 624-9341
Anne Sanow Presents "The Writer's Life"
University of Pittsburgh
Cathedral of Learning - Room 501
4200 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
6:30pm - free - (412) 624-6508
Saturday, October 17:
Poetry Reading & Writing Workshop
The Langston Hughes Poetry Society presents a poetry reading & open writing workshop.
Carnegie Library Homewood
7101 Hamilton Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Homewood)
? - free - (412) 731-3080
Sunday, October 18:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Stacey Waite
The Carnegie Library welcomes poet Stacey Waite.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412) 622-3151
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
October 4, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events October 4 - 11
Monday, October 5:
Drue Heinz Lecture Series - Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs (Knopf, 2009) speaks in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:30pm - $35+ - (412) 622-8866
Tuesday, October 6:
Hilary Masters
Signing How the Indians Buried Their Dead & In Rooms of Memory (SMU Press, 2009/2004).
Carnegie Mellon University Bookstore
5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
4:30pm - free (books for sale) - (412) 268-2000
Michael Chabon
Discussing and signing his new book, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and
Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son (Harper, 2009).
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
2705 E Carson St Pittsburgh, PA (South Side)
7:00pm - Purchase of Manhood for Amateurs required - (412) 462-5743
Wednesday, October 7:
Ellis Avery
Author of The Teahouse Fire (Riverhead Books, 2006) and The Smoke Week (Gival
Press, 2003) reads from her work.
University of Pittsburgh
501 Cathedral of Learning
4200 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
6:00pm - free - (412) 624-6506
Thursday, October 8:
Te Cafe Reading Series
feat Joan Bauer and Stephen Murabito
Té Cafe
2000 Murray Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Squirrel Hill)
7:00pm - free - (412) 422-8888
Sherrie Flick
Local author Sherrie Flick discussing and signing her new novel, Reconsidering
Happiness (Bison Books, 2009)
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
2705 E Carson St Pittsburgh, PA (South Side)
7:00pm - free - (412) 462-5743
CMU Adamson Reading Series - Meg Wolitzer
Author of The Ten Year Nap (Riverhead Books, 2008) and Surrender, Dorothy
(Scribner, 2000) speaks in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Mellon University
136A Baker Hall
5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm - free - (412) 268-2000
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
Drue Heinz Lecture Series - Lorrie Moore
Lorrie Moore, author of A Gate at the Stairs (Knopf, 2009) speaks in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:30pm - $35+ - (412) 622-8866
Tuesday, October 6:
Hilary Masters
Signing How the Indians Buried Their Dead & In Rooms of Memory (SMU Press, 2009/2004).
Carnegie Mellon University Bookstore
5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
4:30pm - free (books for sale) - (412) 268-2000
Michael Chabon
Discussing and signing his new book, Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and
Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son (Harper, 2009).
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
2705 E Carson St Pittsburgh, PA (South Side)
7:00pm - Purchase of Manhood for Amateurs required - (412) 462-5743
Wednesday, October 7:
Ellis Avery
Author of The Teahouse Fire (Riverhead Books, 2006) and The Smoke Week (Gival
Press, 2003) reads from her work.
University of Pittsburgh
501 Cathedral of Learning
4200 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
6:00pm - free - (412) 624-6506
Thursday, October 8:
Te Cafe Reading Series
feat Joan Bauer and Stephen Murabito
Té Cafe
2000 Murray Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Squirrel Hill)
7:00pm - free - (412) 422-8888
Sherrie Flick
Local author Sherrie Flick discussing and signing her new novel, Reconsidering
Happiness (Bison Books, 2009)
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
2705 E Carson St Pittsburgh, PA (South Side)
7:00pm - free - (412) 462-5743
CMU Adamson Reading Series - Meg Wolitzer
Author of The Ten Year Nap (Riverhead Books, 2008) and Surrender, Dorothy
(Scribner, 2000) speaks in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Mellon University
136A Baker Hall
5000 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm - free - (412) 268-2000
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
September 27, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events September 27 - October 4
Thursday, October 1:
Banned Books Week Program
Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh ACLU, and WYEP present the Zafira Dance Co., The
Highway Puppets, Gab Bonesso, Typewriter Girls, and Mark Clayton Southers
& Lee Ferraro to honor Judith Krug in this celebration of sometimes censored
literature.
Carnegie Lecture Hall
4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:00pm - free - (412)681-7736
Saturday, October 3:
The Sex Ed Side Show: A Benefit for Planned Parenthood
Ringmaster Gab Bonesso hosts Sex Ed themed carnival games, treats & drinks, and dancing
with DJ Jam Box along with performances by the Typewriter Girls, Lucky The Painproof Man,
Puppeteer Flora Shepherd, Musician Kellee Maize, Romairas Romeo Harp and the House of
Krayola, The Bridge City Bombshells, and Tarot Reader Paula Flaherty.
The Nerve
500 Dargen Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Bloomfield)
9:00pm - $? (18+) - (412)434-8957
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
Banned Books Week Program
Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh ACLU, and WYEP present the Zafira Dance Co., The
Highway Puppets, Gab Bonesso, Typewriter Girls, and Mark Clayton Southers
& Lee Ferraro to honor Judith Krug in this celebration of sometimes censored
literature.
Carnegie Lecture Hall
4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:00pm - free - (412)681-7736
Saturday, October 3:
The Sex Ed Side Show: A Benefit for Planned Parenthood
Ringmaster Gab Bonesso hosts Sex Ed themed carnival games, treats & drinks, and dancing
with DJ Jam Box along with performances by the Typewriter Girls, Lucky The Painproof Man,
Puppeteer Flora Shepherd, Musician Kellee Maize, Romairas Romeo Harp and the House of
Krayola, The Bridge City Bombshells, and Tarot Reader Paula Flaherty.
The Nerve
500 Dargen Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Bloomfield)
9:00pm - $? (18+) - (412)434-8957
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
September 26, 2009
Submissions are currently closed
This is just a reminder that our reading period is currently closed. We will reopen for submissions on October 15, 2009. Please read the submissions guidelines for more information.
September 20, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events September 20 - 27
Sunday, September 20:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Marc Jampole
The Carnegie Library welcomes poet Marc Jampole.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412)622-3151
Monday, September 21:
Poets on the Loose
Point State Park
101 Commonwealth Pl Pittsburgh, PA (downtown)
12:00pm - free - (412)231-1581
Drue Heinz Lecture Series - Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love speaks in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:30pm - $35+ - (412)622-8866
Tuesday, September 22:
Poets on the Loose
Point State Park
101 Commonwealth Pl Pittsburgh, PA (downtown)
12:00pm - free - (412)231-1581
Wednesday, September 23:
Poets on the Loose
Point State Park
101 Commonwealth Pl Pittsburgh, PA (downtown)
12:00pm - free - (412)231-1581
Thursday, September 24:
Please God Save Us
Artist Derek Hess & writer Kent Smith discuss & sign their collaborative book,
Please God Save Us (Strhess Press, 2008).
Jester's Court Tattoos
1410 E Carson St Pittsburgh, PA (southside)
8:00pm - free - (412)488-8287
Friday, September 25:
Nightglow Poetry Series
Hosted by Brian Francis
New Hazlett Theater
Allegheny Sq East Pittsburgh, PA (North side)
10:30pm - $3 - (412)320-4610
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Marc Jampole
The Carnegie Library welcomes poet Marc Jampole.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412)622-3151
Monday, September 21:
Poets on the Loose
Point State Park
101 Commonwealth Pl Pittsburgh, PA (downtown)
12:00pm - free - (412)231-1581
Drue Heinz Lecture Series - Elizabeth Gilbert
Elizabeth Gilbert, bestselling author of Eat, Pray, Love speaks in Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
7:30pm - $35+ - (412)622-8866
Tuesday, September 22:
Poets on the Loose
Point State Park
101 Commonwealth Pl Pittsburgh, PA (downtown)
12:00pm - free - (412)231-1581
Wednesday, September 23:
Poets on the Loose
Point State Park
101 Commonwealth Pl Pittsburgh, PA (downtown)
12:00pm - free - (412)231-1581
Thursday, September 24:
Please God Save Us
Artist Derek Hess & writer Kent Smith discuss & sign their collaborative book,
Please God Save Us (Strhess Press, 2008).
Jester's Court Tattoos
1410 E Carson St Pittsburgh, PA (southside)
8:00pm - free - (412)488-8287
Friday, September 25:
Nightglow Poetry Series
Hosted by Brian Francis
New Hazlett Theater
Allegheny Sq East Pittsburgh, PA (North side)
10:30pm - $3 - (412)320-4610
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
September 13, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events September 13 - 20
Monday, September 14:
American Shorts @ WYEP Presents Nam Le
American Shorts concludes the 2009 season with a reading and discussion with
acclaimed short story writer Nam Le, author of The Boat. The evening concludes
with a screening of Steph Green's Oscar-nominated short film, New Boy. Written
by acclaimed Irish screenwriter and novelist Roddy Doyle.
WYEP Community Broadcast Center
67 Bedford Sq Pittsburgh, PA (Southside)
7:00pm - $10 - (412)622-8866
Tuesday, September 15:
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, September 16:
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
The New Yinzer Presents
Join The New Yinzer for this month's TNYPresents event featuring Pittsburgh City
Paper featured writer Sherrie Flick, Dave Carillo, Dana Killmeyer and Weave Assistant
Editor Joel W. Coggins [that's me!], along with musical act Steve Tribou & The Vacant Sea.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5 (free w/ pot luck contribution) - (412) 362-0274
Thursday, September 17:
Aleksander Hemon @ Pitt Contemporary Writers Series
The University of Pittsburgh's Contemporary Writers Series welcomes Aleksander
Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project and Love and Obstacles, for the Fred R. Brown
Literary Award reading, to be followed by a discussion of the future of Fiction curated
by Irina Reyn .
University of Pittsburgh
Alumni Hall - Connolly Ballroom
4227 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:30pm - free
Sunday, September 20:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Marc Jampole
The Carnegie Library welcomes poet Marc Jampole.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412)622-3151
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
American Shorts @ WYEP Presents Nam Le
American Shorts concludes the 2009 season with a reading and discussion with
acclaimed short story writer Nam Le, author of The Boat. The evening concludes
with a screening of Steph Green's Oscar-nominated short film, New Boy. Written
by acclaimed Irish screenwriter and novelist Roddy Doyle.
WYEP Community Broadcast Center
67 Bedford Sq Pittsburgh, PA (Southside)
7:00pm - $10 - (412)622-8866
Tuesday, September 15:
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, September 16:
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
The New Yinzer Presents
Join The New Yinzer for this month's TNYPresents event featuring Pittsburgh City
Paper featured writer Sherrie Flick, Dave Carillo, Dana Killmeyer and Weave Assistant
Editor Joel W. Coggins [that's me!], along with musical act Steve Tribou & The Vacant Sea.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5 (free w/ pot luck contribution) - (412) 362-0274
Thursday, September 17:
Aleksander Hemon @ Pitt Contemporary Writers Series
The University of Pittsburgh's Contemporary Writers Series welcomes Aleksander
Hemon, author of The Lazarus Project and Love and Obstacles, for the Fred R. Brown
Literary Award reading, to be followed by a discussion of the future of Fiction curated
by Irina Reyn .
University of Pittsburgh
Alumni Hall - Connolly Ballroom
4227 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:30pm - free
Sunday, September 20:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Marc Jampole
The Carnegie Library welcomes poet Marc Jampole.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412)622-3151
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
September 9, 2009
Issue 03 Excitement!
The submission period has closed for Weave for issue 03. We can't really believe how quickly the year goes by and how soon we have to look forward to our next issue. Submissions will reopen on October 15th and can expect to see Weave 03 ready for purchase at that same time. We plan to release our contributors list for this issue in the next week so check back soon! In the mean time, get your hands on a copy of issue 01 and 02 before they are sold out! We will also be releasing info about the third issue release event very soon. Also: did you hear about Weave's new assistant editors? They are fantastic! We could not have completed this issue without them.
September 6, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events September 6 - 13
Friday, September 11:
Tav Issue 2 Release Party
Video, art, and words by local & national contributors. Tav Issue 2 available
for purchase!
Encyclopedia Destructica Studios
156 41st St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
7:00pm – free - (717) 341-8262
Gist Street Reading Series
feat. Julia Kasdorf (poetry) and Charles Leerhsen (non-fiction)
James Simon Sculpture Studio (3rd floor)
305 Gist St Pittsburgh, PA (Uptown)
8:00pm – $5 - (412) 434-5629
Saturday, September 12:
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
City of Asylum Concert
Join emcee Barbara Russell for Jazz by Geri Allen & Trio 3, and poetry from
Khet Mar (Burma), Irakli Kakabadze (Georgia), and artists from Croatia, Iraq,
and India. In case of rain, event is moved to New Hazlett Theater.
Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh, PA (North side)
7:30pm - free - (412) 321-2190
Tav Issue 2 Release Party
Video, art, and words by local & national contributors. Tav Issue 2 available
for purchase!
Encyclopedia Destructica Studios
156 41st St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
7:00pm – free - (717) 341-8262
Gist Street Reading Series
feat. Julia Kasdorf (poetry) and Charles Leerhsen (non-fiction)
James Simon Sculpture Studio (3rd floor)
305 Gist St Pittsburgh, PA (Uptown)
8:00pm – $5 - (412) 434-5629
Saturday, September 12:
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
City of Asylum Concert
Join emcee Barbara Russell for Jazz by Geri Allen & Trio 3, and poetry from
Khet Mar (Burma), Irakli Kakabadze (Georgia), and artists from Croatia, Iraq,
and India. In case of rain, event is moved to New Hazlett Theater.
Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh, PA (North side)
7:30pm - free - (412) 321-2190
August 30, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events August 30 - September 6
Sunday, August 30:
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
The Typewriter Girls Gone Biblical
Join the ever entertaining Typewriter Girls Cabaret for an evening of
burlesque dancing by The Bridge City Bombshells, magic by Mark Swindler,
readings by Sandra Beasley, Nancy Krygowski, and Sherrie Flick, and music
by Steve Pellegrino.
Howler's Coyote Cafe
4509 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Bloomfield)
7:00pm - $5 - (412) 682-0320
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
The Typewriter Girls Gone Biblical
Join the ever entertaining Typewriter Girls Cabaret for an evening of
burlesque dancing by The Bridge City Bombshells, magic by Mark Swindler,
readings by Sandra Beasley, Nancy Krygowski, and Sherrie Flick, and music
by Steve Pellegrino.
Howler's Coyote Cafe
4509 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Bloomfield)
7:00pm - $5 - (412) 682-0320
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
August 29, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events THIS WEEKEND!!! August 29 - 30
Saturday, August 29:
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
Weave @The Sprout Fund's Hothouse
Come find Weave at The Sprout Fund’s 7th annual Hothouse summer benefit!
Walnut Capital’s Bakery Square development
Penn Ave & East Liberty Blvd Pittsburgh, PA (East Liberty)
9:00pm (7:00pm VIP) - $60 ($150 VIP) ($25 Students) - (412) 325-0646
Sunday, August 30:
The Typewriter Girls Gone Biblical
Join the ever entertaining Typewriter Girls Cabaret for an evening of
burlesque dancing by The Bridge City Bombshells, magic by Mark Swindler,
readings by Sandra Beasley, Nancy Krygowski, and Sherrie Flick, and music
by Steve Pellegrino.
Howler's Coyote Cafe
4509 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Bloomfield)
7:00pm - $5 - (412) 682-0320
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
Weave @The Sprout Fund's Hothouse
Come find Weave at The Sprout Fund’s 7th annual Hothouse summer benefit!
Walnut Capital’s Bakery Square development
Penn Ave & East Liberty Blvd Pittsburgh, PA (East Liberty)
9:00pm (7:00pm VIP) - $60 ($150 VIP) ($25 Students) - (412) 325-0646
Sunday, August 30:
The Typewriter Girls Gone Biblical
Join the ever entertaining Typewriter Girls Cabaret for an evening of
burlesque dancing by The Bridge City Bombshells, magic by Mark Swindler,
readings by Sandra Beasley, Nancy Krygowski, and Sherrie Flick, and music
by Steve Pellegrino.
Howler's Coyote Cafe
4509 Liberty Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Bloomfield)
7:00pm - $5 - (412) 682-0320
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
August 26, 2009
Weave Issue 03 Submission Deadline: Monday, August 31!
A reminder for all interested writers and artists: Weave's submission deadline
for Issue 03, due out in October, is this Monday, August 31, 2009.
Keep in mind our submission guidelines and submit today!
for Issue 03, due out in October, is this Monday, August 31, 2009.
Keep in mind our submission guidelines and submit today!
August 16, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events August 16 - 23
Sunday, August 16:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Along These Rivers
Readings from Along These Rivers: Poetry & Photography from Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412)622-3151
Tuesday, August 18:
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
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
The New Yinzer Presents
Join The New Yinzer for the kick-off of this year's season of TNYPresents featuring
the literary talents of Scott McClanahan, Cathy Day, Paco Mahone, and Weave
Co-Editor Laura Davis, along with musical guest, Justin Andrew.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5 (free w/ pot luck contribution) - (412) 362-0274
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Along These Rivers
Readings from Along These Rivers: Poetry & Photography from Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412)622-3151
Tuesday, August 18:
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
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT:
The New Yinzer Presents
Join The New Yinzer for the kick-off of this year's season of TNYPresents featuring
the literary talents of Scott McClanahan, Cathy Day, Paco Mahone, and Weave
Co-Editor Laura Davis, along with musical guest, Justin Andrew.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5 (free w/ pot luck contribution) - (412) 362-0274
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
August 10, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events August 10-16
Thursday, August 13:
The Moth - Building a Bridge: Stories From Both Sides
American Shorts presents The Moth in Pittsburgh. Hosted by The Daily
Show’s Tom Shillue, the cast for the evening includes Pittsburgh’s own
Terrance Hayes (poet and Guggenheim fellow), Boris Timanovsky (a
Moth regular), Stephanie Summerville (actress and singer) and local
musician Liz Hammond (aka UkuLizzy) who will serve as the evenings
timekeeper.
WYEP Community Broadcast Center
67 Bedford Sq Pittsburgh, PA (Southside)
7:00pm - $10 - (412)622-8866
Sunday, August 16:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Along These Rivers
Readings from Along These Rivers: Poetry & Photography from Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412)622-3151
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
The Moth - Building a Bridge: Stories From Both Sides
American Shorts presents The Moth in Pittsburgh. Hosted by The Daily
Show’s Tom Shillue, the cast for the evening includes Pittsburgh’s own
Terrance Hayes (poet and Guggenheim fellow), Boris Timanovsky (a
Moth regular), Stephanie Summerville (actress and singer) and local
musician Liz Hammond (aka UkuLizzy) who will serve as the evenings
timekeeper.
WYEP Community Broadcast Center
67 Bedford Sq Pittsburgh, PA (Southside)
7:00pm - $10 - (412)622-8866
Sunday, August 16:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Along These Rivers
Readings from Along These Rivers: Poetry & Photography from Pittsburgh.
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh (Main Branch)
Quiet Reading Room, Main Floor
4400 Forbes Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:00pm - free – (412)622-3151
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
August 2, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events August 2 - 9
Tuesday, August 4:
Prosody
91.3 WYEP Radio
7:00pm
Zine Collective Release Party
Celebration Zine Collective for Teens' first issue of Closet Culture
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
2705 E Carson St Pittsburgh, PA (South Side)
7:00pm - free - (412) 462-5743
Wednesday, August 5:
Warhol-o-rama
Presentation by Warhol-o-rama author Peter Oresick
Greentree Public Library
10 W Manilla Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Greentree)
7:00pm - free - (412)921-9292
Thursday, August 6:
Shilpa Agarwal Reading
Fox Chapel native Shilpa Agarwal will discuss her new book "Haunting
Bombay," recipient of a starred review in Library Journal and the First
Words Literary Prize for South Asian Writers.
Lauri Ann West Memorial Library
1220 Powers Run Rd Pittsburgh, PA (O'Hara)
7:00pm - free- (412) 828-9520
Saturday, August 8:
Chatham Summer Reisdency Reading
feat Kathleen George & Ann Fisher-Wirth
Chatham University
Woodland Rd Pittsburgh, PA (Shadyside)
7:30pm - free - (412) 365-1100
Arefa's Espresso Poetry Reading
feat Jill Khoury & Kherry McKay
Arefa's Espresso
5827 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Squirrel Hill)
8:00pm - free - (412) 436-0908
Sunday, August 9:
Chatham Summer Reisdency Reading
feat Sheryl St Germain & Pamela Stover
Chatham University
Woodland Rd Pittsburgh, PA (Shadyside)
time? - free - (412) 365-1100
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
Autumn House Master Authors Reading Series
feat Phillip Terman & Judith Vollmer
Kiva Han
410 S Craig St Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:30pm - free - (412) 687-6355
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
Prosody
91.3 WYEP Radio
7:00pm
Zine Collective Release Party
Celebration Zine Collective for Teens' first issue of Closet Culture
Joseph-Beth Booksellers
2705 E Carson St Pittsburgh, PA (South Side)
7:00pm - free - (412) 462-5743
Wednesday, August 5:
Warhol-o-rama
Presentation by Warhol-o-rama author Peter Oresick
Greentree Public Library
10 W Manilla Ave, Pittsburgh, PA (Greentree)
7:00pm - free - (412)921-9292
Thursday, August 6:
Shilpa Agarwal Reading
Fox Chapel native Shilpa Agarwal will discuss her new book "Haunting
Bombay," recipient of a starred review in Library Journal and the First
Words Literary Prize for South Asian Writers.
Lauri Ann West Memorial Library
1220 Powers Run Rd Pittsburgh, PA (O'Hara)
7:00pm - free- (412) 828-9520
Saturday, August 8:
Chatham Summer Reisdency Reading
feat Kathleen George & Ann Fisher-Wirth
Chatham University
Woodland Rd Pittsburgh, PA (Shadyside)
7:30pm - free - (412) 365-1100
Arefa's Espresso Poetry Reading
feat Jill Khoury & Kherry McKay
Arefa's Espresso
5827 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Squirrel Hill)
8:00pm - free - (412) 436-0908
Sunday, August 9:
Chatham Summer Reisdency Reading
feat Sheryl St Germain & Pamela Stover
Chatham University
Woodland Rd Pittsburgh, PA (Shadyside)
time? - free - (412) 365-1100
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
Autumn House Master Authors Reading Series
feat Phillip Terman & Judith Vollmer
Kiva Han
410 S Craig St Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
2:30pm - free - (412) 687-6355
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
July 27, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events July 27 - August 2
Tuesday, July 28:
Prosody
91.3 WYEP Radio
7:00pm
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
Hemingway's Summer Reading Series
feat. Dmitry Berenson, Ed Carvalho, Kristofer Collins, Nancy Esther
James, Jill Khouri, Ed Lilley, Liane Ellison Norman, Deena November,
Kayla Sargeson, Lucille Siebert, and Michelle Stoner in the final event
of the series for this summer.
Hemingway’s Cafe
3911 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm – free – (412) 621-4100
Friday, July 31:
The Diner Divas: Writers with Bite
Sue Rumbaugh of Carlow University presents a spectacular afternoon of
creative nonfiction at Pittsburgh's most greasy, gratifying diner: Ritter's.
Ritter's Diner
5221 Baum Blvd Pittsburgh, PA (Bloomfield)
3:00pm - No Cover
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
Prosody
91.3 WYEP Radio
7:00pm
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
Hemingway's Summer Reading Series
feat. Dmitry Berenson, Ed Carvalho, Kristofer Collins, Nancy Esther
James, Jill Khouri, Ed Lilley, Liane Ellison Norman, Deena November,
Kayla Sargeson, Lucille Siebert, and Michelle Stoner in the final event
of the series for this summer.
Hemingway’s Cafe
3911 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm – free – (412) 621-4100
Friday, July 31:
The Diner Divas: Writers with Bite
Sue Rumbaugh of Carlow University presents a spectacular afternoon of
creative nonfiction at Pittsburgh's most greasy, gratifying diner: Ritter's.
Ritter's Diner
5221 Baum Blvd Pittsburgh, PA (Bloomfield)
3:00pm - No Cover
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
July 23, 2009
Review: The Curse of Eve by Liliana Blum, trans. Toshiya Kamei
The Curse of Eve is a collection of stories about women—women as lovers, girls, mothers, and daughters, women of hope, violence, voice, Mexico and the violence of hope. The Curse of Eve represents a first on two counts—the first full-length story collection from author Liliana Blum, and the first full-length book translation by Toshiya Kamei.
In his opening note, Kamei uses these words to describe Blum’s fiction: ‘foreboding,’ ‘tragic,’ ‘lighthearted,’ ‘dark,’ and ‘damned feminist.’
Foreboding, yes, as in the story of a mistress who meets Stalin’s wife or when a modern-day Miss Marple attempts to solve the crime of infidelity. Tragic, when women describe their struggles to learn the touch of a man, and others who learn it too soon. Lighthearted in the case of dwarf as Avon Lady and in one woman’s chance meeting with Ron Jeremy. Dark as the inner psyche of an artist who uses real-life models for his work. The Curse of Eve as ‘damned feminist?’ Always.
Blum deftly renders each woman in her own state of personal trauma. There is the moment of discovery between a husband and wife, the beginnings of an understanding between brother and sister, and the recovery of a woman coming to terms with her past. There are men too—men defined by women, men driven by their repulsion and desire for women, men as narrators, observers, actors, and catalysts for action.
In the collection’s title story, The Curse of Eve (A Tragedy in Seven Acts), Kamei translates Blum’s story of a woman coming to terms with the pangs of pregnancy. While her husband remains blissfully absent, a modern-day Eve traces her thoughts through the course of two violent births, the loss of her youth, and her imprisonment in motherhood. From the insignificant act that marks the beginning of her curse to the birth of a daughter who will inherit “the sufferings of her kind,” the nameless narrator remarks that she is told that she must, at all times, remember to, “Take it like a woman.” A theme that is echoed throughout the collection, we are made to understand that Blum’s women can take it all. Even as we become acutely aware of the extent to which ‘Eve’ suffers, as well as the tragedy that lies in store for her, we hold on to the hope she feels when she admits to holding her child for the first time, admitting that, “at this moment nothing else matters.”
This sentiment is mirrored in the equally haunting, Periquita Shoes. With stark prose and striking imagery, Kamei renders Blum’s story about a local balloon seller’s desire for a young girl with Periquita shoes. His single-minded passion is likened to his craft, described as one that, “rises, blows up, [like] a balloon reaching its limits.” His desire is compounded by the vast difference in their ages. As the story culminates in an act of startling cruelty, we are left to lie in a field alongside the girl and her Periquita shoes, “full of pain, but alive.”
The landscape of Mexico provides the backdrop for these experiences—a country caught between the realm of superstition and spirituality, romance and reality. It defines Blum and The Curse of Eve as being both border and borderless, a nation of violence no more real than the violence of love, birth, and universal womanhood. From behind the curtains of race, class, gender, and sexuality, each woman carries her own curse of Eve, and the means to overcome it.
It is this universality that defines Blum’s work and her achievement as a writer. Although the stories in The Curse of Eve carry a thread of the foreign and the fantastical, the element of humanity that pervades each piece makes the event of one scene as recognizable as the next. The Curse of Eve is exact and exacting, written in a language that renders both the subject, and the reader, bare. The birth of both a new author and translator, The Curse of Eve marks the beginning of The Fall, a descent into a fiction where we are kept waiting for the next apple to drop.
Review by Jennifer Lue
Liliana V. Blum was born in Durango, Mexico, in 1974. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Kansas and a Master’s degree in Education from the Instituto Technológico de Monterrey. English translations of her stories have appeared in various literary journals, including Eclectica, Mslexia, storySouth, Blackbird, and The Dirty Goat. More of Liliana’s work can be found at http://lasalasdelalacran.blog.com/.
Toshiya Kamei has translated numerous Spanish and Latin American writers, including Liliana V. Blum, Estrella del Valle, Espido Freire, Ericka Ghersi, Leticia Luna, and Socorro Venegas. His translations have appeared in the journals The Dirty Goat, Literal: Latin American Voices and Metamorphoses, among others. His translation of Naoko Awa’s ‘White Mufflers’ can be found in Issue 02 of Weave Magazine.
In his opening note, Kamei uses these words to describe Blum’s fiction: ‘foreboding,’ ‘tragic,’ ‘lighthearted,’ ‘dark,’ and ‘damned feminist.’
Foreboding, yes, as in the story of a mistress who meets Stalin’s wife or when a modern-day Miss Marple attempts to solve the crime of infidelity. Tragic, when women describe their struggles to learn the touch of a man, and others who learn it too soon. Lighthearted in the case of dwarf as Avon Lady and in one woman’s chance meeting with Ron Jeremy. Dark as the inner psyche of an artist who uses real-life models for his work. The Curse of Eve as ‘damned feminist?’ Always.
Blum deftly renders each woman in her own state of personal trauma. There is the moment of discovery between a husband and wife, the beginnings of an understanding between brother and sister, and the recovery of a woman coming to terms with her past. There are men too—men defined by women, men driven by their repulsion and desire for women, men as narrators, observers, actors, and catalysts for action.
In the collection’s title story, The Curse of Eve (A Tragedy in Seven Acts), Kamei translates Blum’s story of a woman coming to terms with the pangs of pregnancy. While her husband remains blissfully absent, a modern-day Eve traces her thoughts through the course of two violent births, the loss of her youth, and her imprisonment in motherhood. From the insignificant act that marks the beginning of her curse to the birth of a daughter who will inherit “the sufferings of her kind,” the nameless narrator remarks that she is told that she must, at all times, remember to, “Take it like a woman.” A theme that is echoed throughout the collection, we are made to understand that Blum’s women can take it all. Even as we become acutely aware of the extent to which ‘Eve’ suffers, as well as the tragedy that lies in store for her, we hold on to the hope she feels when she admits to holding her child for the first time, admitting that, “at this moment nothing else matters.”
This sentiment is mirrored in the equally haunting, Periquita Shoes. With stark prose and striking imagery, Kamei renders Blum’s story about a local balloon seller’s desire for a young girl with Periquita shoes. His single-minded passion is likened to his craft, described as one that, “rises, blows up, [like] a balloon reaching its limits.” His desire is compounded by the vast difference in their ages. As the story culminates in an act of startling cruelty, we are left to lie in a field alongside the girl and her Periquita shoes, “full of pain, but alive.”
The landscape of Mexico provides the backdrop for these experiences—a country caught between the realm of superstition and spirituality, romance and reality. It defines Blum and The Curse of Eve as being both border and borderless, a nation of violence no more real than the violence of love, birth, and universal womanhood. From behind the curtains of race, class, gender, and sexuality, each woman carries her own curse of Eve, and the means to overcome it.
It is this universality that defines Blum’s work and her achievement as a writer. Although the stories in The Curse of Eve carry a thread of the foreign and the fantastical, the element of humanity that pervades each piece makes the event of one scene as recognizable as the next. The Curse of Eve is exact and exacting, written in a language that renders both the subject, and the reader, bare. The birth of both a new author and translator, The Curse of Eve marks the beginning of The Fall, a descent into a fiction where we are kept waiting for the next apple to drop.
Review by Jennifer Lue
Liliana V. Blum was born in Durango, Mexico, in 1974. She holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature from the University of Kansas and a Master’s degree in Education from the Instituto Technológico de Monterrey. English translations of her stories have appeared in various literary journals, including Eclectica, Mslexia, storySouth, Blackbird, and The Dirty Goat. More of Liliana’s work can be found at http://lasalasdelalacran.blog.com/.
Toshiya Kamei has translated numerous Spanish and Latin American writers, including Liliana V. Blum, Estrella del Valle, Espido Freire, Ericka Ghersi, Leticia Luna, and Socorro Venegas. His translations have appeared in the journals The Dirty Goat, Literal: Latin American Voices and Metamorphoses, among others. His translation of Naoko Awa’s ‘White Mufflers’ can be found in Issue 02 of Weave Magazine.
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