Pittsburgh Lit Events: April 26 - May 2

Tuesday, April 27:

City of Asylum Pittsburgh Presents
With the help of our friends at PEN America and in conjunction with their annual PEN
World Voices Festival, City of Asylum Pittsburgh hosts its own mini-festival in Pittsburgh.
Feat. Sofi Oksanen (Finland), Christos Tsiolkas (Australia), and Tommy Wieringa
(Netherlands) reading and in discussion with Pittsburgh City Paper's Bill O'Driscoll.
City of Asylum Pittsburgh
330 Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh, PA (north side)
7:30pm - free

Prosody
91.3 WYEP Radio
7:00pm

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


Wednesday, April 28:

Three Rivers Review Volume XV Release Reading
University of Pittsburgh's Three Rivers Review of Undergraduate Literature celebrates
its new issue. Feat. Madeleine Barnes, Scott Krzywonos, Hannah Aizenman, and more.
The Frame Gallery
Carnegie Mellon University
5200 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Squirrel Hill)
8:30pm - free


Thursday, April 29:

City of Asylum Pittsburgh Presents
With the help of our friends at PEN America and in conjunction with their annual PEN
World Voices Festival, City of Asylum Pittsburgh hosts its own mini-festival in Pittsburgh.
Feat. C. K. Stead (New Zealand) reading and in discussion with Pittsburgh Post Gazette's
Bob Hoover.
City of Asylum Pittsburgh
330 Sampsonia Way Pittsburgh, PA (north side)
7:30pm - free


Friday, April 30:

Carnegie Mellon Visiting Writers Series
CMU hosts poet Thomas Lynch, author of Apparition & Late Fictions and Walking Papers.
Carnegie Mellon University
Baker Hall - Room 136
8:00pm - free -(412) 268-2850

The New Yinzer Presents - Special Edition!
Come out for an extra helping of TNY Presents. Feat. readings by Chris Leo, Max G. Morton, Taylor Grieshober, and Wesley Conroy. The amazing Uke & Tuba will also be on hand to get your toes a-tappin'!
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm - $5 (free with potluck contribution)


Saturday, May 1:

Twisted Tree Press Presents
Twisted Tree Press hosts poets Philip Terman, author of Rabbis of the Air, and Eric Potter, author Heart Murmur.
ModernFormations
4919 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
7:30pm - $4 - (408) 598-6846





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