Tuesday, June 16:
Prosody
91.3 WYEP Radio
7:00pm
Hemingway's Summer Reading Series
feat. Angele Ellis, Erin Garstka, Edna Machesney, and Shirley Stevens
Hemingway’s Cafe
3911 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm – free – (412)621-4100
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
Thursday, June 18:
Berner Book Signing
Author David Berner discusses and signs his novel Accidental Lessons.
Pengiuin Bookshop
420 Beaver St Sewickley, PA
6:30pm - free - (412) 741-3838
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
POETSBURGH Presents S.E. Smith
Open Thread presents a special edition of POETSBURGH
featuring readings and talk show chatting with S.E. Smith!
S.E. was a finalist for the 2007 Keene Prize for Literature for
her story collection, "The Wild Girl of Western Pennsylvania,"
and was recently named a finalist for the 2009 Walt Whitman
Award for emerging poets. She is a 2009 graduate of the MFA
Writing Program at the Michener Center at the University of
Texas - Austin. She'll sit down for some readings and talk show
conversation with "host" Adam Atkinson of Open Thread in the
wonderful space at WAFFLE SHOP in East Liberty, following a
spectacular appearance from Drive By Drag.
Waffle Shop
124 S. Highland Ave Pittsburgh, PA (East Liberty)
9:30pm - free (buy waffles!!! :) )
Sunday, June 21:
Carnegie Library Sunday Reading Series: Dana Killmeyer
The Carnegie Library’s Sunday Poetry Reading Series hosts a featured reading
by Dana Killmeyer, author of "Paradise, or the Part that Dies" and Pendulums of
Euphoria (Six Gallery Press).
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
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Showing posts with label Poetsburgh. Show all posts
June 14, 2009
May 31, 2009
Pittsburgh Lit Events May 31 - June 7
Tuesday, June 2:
Prosody
91.3 WYEP Radio
7:00pm
Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
feat. Arlan Hess, Mike Schneider, and Christina Springer
Hemingway’s Cafe
3911 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm – free – (412)621-4100
Wednesday, June 3:
Are You Free? Chapbook Release Party
Glass Key Press launches Are You Free?: A Collection of Verbal Literations in a Gritty City featuring D.J. Brewer, Kellee Maize, and Carolyne Whelan
New Amsterdam
4421 Butler St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm – free/$8 books – (412)682-6414
Thursday, June 4:
Coatlicue Reading Series
feat. Stacey Waite, Adam Atkinson, Beano & Mark Bisi, and Thomas Scioli
Encyclopedia Destructica Studios
156 41st St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm – free
Friday, June 5:
Sprout Summer Social
The Sprout Fund, Weave supporter, welcomes friends, neighbors and supporters to a summer social at its offices for complimentary snacks and drinks while listening to live entertainment from Man in the Street and DJ J.Malls. Meet board members and staff to learn about Sprout’s programs. Discover recent projects funded by Sprout's Seed Award and Spark programs. View the 2009 preliminary designs from Sprout Public Art.
Sprout Fund Offices
5423 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
5:30pm – free – (412)325-0646
Gist Street Reading Series
feat. Hadara Bar-Nadav (poetry) and Salvatore Scibona (fiction)
James Simon Sculpture Studio (3rd floor)
305 Gist St Pittsburgh, PA (Uptown)
7:30pm – $5
Saturday, June 6 :
Poetry Without Walls
13th annual open reading for local writers
Garfield Artworks
4931 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Garfield)
8:00pm – free – (412)231-1581
Sunday, June 7:
Prosody
91.3 WYEP Radio
7:00pm
Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
feat. Arlan Hess, Mike Schneider, and Christina Springer
Hemingway’s Cafe
3911 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Oakland)
8:00pm – free – (412)621-4100
Wednesday, June 3:
Are You Free? Chapbook Release Party
Glass Key Press launches Are You Free?: A Collection of Verbal Literations in a Gritty City featuring D.J. Brewer, Kellee Maize, and Carolyne Whelan
New Amsterdam
4421 Butler St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm – free/$8 books – (412)682-6414
Thursday, June 4:
Coatlicue Reading Series
feat. Stacey Waite, Adam Atkinson, Beano & Mark Bisi, and Thomas Scioli
Encyclopedia Destructica Studios
156 41st St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
8:00pm – free
Friday, June 5:
Sprout Summer Social
The Sprout Fund, Weave supporter, welcomes friends, neighbors and supporters to a summer social at its offices for complimentary snacks and drinks while listening to live entertainment from Man in the Street and DJ J.Malls. Meet board members and staff to learn about Sprout’s programs. Discover recent projects funded by Sprout's Seed Award and Spark programs. View the 2009 preliminary designs from Sprout Public Art.
Sprout Fund Offices
5423 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
5:30pm – free – (412)325-0646
Gist Street Reading Series
feat. Hadara Bar-Nadav (poetry) and Salvatore Scibona (fiction)
James Simon Sculpture Studio (3rd floor)
305 Gist St Pittsburgh, PA (Uptown)
7:30pm – $5
Saturday, June 6 :
Poetry Without Walls
13th annual open reading for local writers
Garfield Artworks
4931 Penn Ave Pittsburgh, PA (Garfield)
8:00pm – free – (412)231-1581
Sunday, June 7:
WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
The TypewriterGirls Try Politics
"After the (amazing) scantily clad, mildly orgiastic debacle that was The TypewriterGirls Try Drag, the ladies have decided to turn over a new leaf and begin an epic battle in the name of social justice. Join them in their quest to unionize the Greater Pittsburgh bohemian community–streetwalkers, poets, bicyclists, tarot card readers, amateur astrologers, and the like–while revolutionizing Pittsburgh’s concept of 'employed.' Supported by the AFL-CIO (in a manner of speaking), The TypewriterGirls have rounded up an all-star team of Grass Roots Community Organizers to aid them in their cause." Feat. poets Renee Alberts, Adam Atkinson, Mary Biddinger, and Jay Robinson, with music by Between Liberties, DJ Randy Spinster, escape artistry by Dave Doyle (aka Pester the Jester), and punk rock burlesque with Shrimp Scanty.
Your Inner Vagabond
4130 Butler St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
7:00pm – $5 – (412)683-1623
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
The TypewriterGirls Try Politics
"After the (amazing) scantily clad, mildly orgiastic debacle that was The TypewriterGirls Try Drag, the ladies have decided to turn over a new leaf and begin an epic battle in the name of social justice. Join them in their quest to unionize the Greater Pittsburgh bohemian community–streetwalkers, poets, bicyclists, tarot card readers, amateur astrologers, and the like–while revolutionizing Pittsburgh’s concept of 'employed.' Supported by the AFL-CIO (in a manner of speaking), The TypewriterGirls have rounded up an all-star team of Grass Roots Community Organizers to aid them in their cause." Feat. poets Renee Alberts, Adam Atkinson, Mary Biddinger, and Jay Robinson, with music by Between Liberties, DJ Randy Spinster, escape artistry by Dave Doyle (aka Pester the Jester), and punk rock burlesque with Shrimp Scanty.
Your Inner Vagabond
4130 Butler St Pittsburgh, PA (Lawrenceville)
7:00pm – $5 – (412)683-1623
Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com
April 22, 2009
Review: Also in Arcadia by Andrew Mulvania
Also in Arcadia by Andrew Mulvania is both a subtle and striking journey through childhood, loss and recognition set amidst the landscape of the Midwest. Mulvania, a native of Missouri, has written a collection of poems that pay homage to the people and places with keen eye for the small things that shape daily rural life. This work provides a glimpse into the past and holds its breath for the possibility of a more hopeful future.
Mulvania begins with the first of three sections entitled Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man where rural life is subtlety magicked through the eyes of the imaginative youth. This section travels through a variety of rural places: home, barn, church and county fairs and actions: harvesting, farrowing and berry-picking, as is reflected in the book’s first poem “Blackberry-Picking”;
We wanted the easy harvest,
the berries that would drop
in the bucket with a touch, the ones
left unguarded by spiders
and within reach.
But more common were those
you’d have to stretch to grab—
maneuver your hand
through an ambush of brambles,
as though reaching through
a broken window—
With a gentle, but wise voice that reflects awe and reverence for nature, rather than dominance or mastery, Mulvania shares the childhood lesson that life does not always provide the painless path. From there, Mulvania pulls back and focuses more on exhibiting child-like wonder at the world, yet maintaining the attention to detail required of any good artist.
Family, home and religious tradition are also explored in poems like "Sunrise Service, Solid Rock Baptist Church” where the narrator grounds spiritual doubt in the natural world: “I don’t know if I felt all that I was supposed to feel, /or whether I believed what they said when they said, / ‘He is not here whom you seek,’ I knew / the red fox would run the banks of Pointer’s Creek that day, /the wild iris rise up from a shroud of dew.”
The book's middle section journeys down toward death as the title Katabasis suggests. Here, a somber voice describes how frequently death has touched the narrator’s experiences with simplicity and normality. We are reminded that death most often comes not in a grandiose fashion, but in the course of daily ritual, as with the poem “Elegy for Gary Wolfe”,
Mulvania begins with the first of three sections entitled Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man where rural life is subtlety magicked through the eyes of the imaginative youth. This section travels through a variety of rural places: home, barn, church and county fairs and actions: harvesting, farrowing and berry-picking, as is reflected in the book’s first poem “Blackberry-Picking”;
We wanted the easy harvest,
the berries that would drop
in the bucket with a touch, the ones
left unguarded by spiders
and within reach.
But more common were those
you’d have to stretch to grab—
maneuver your hand
through an ambush of brambles,
as though reaching through
a broken window—
With a gentle, but wise voice that reflects awe and reverence for nature, rather than dominance or mastery, Mulvania shares the childhood lesson that life does not always provide the painless path. From there, Mulvania pulls back and focuses more on exhibiting child-like wonder at the world, yet maintaining the attention to detail required of any good artist.
Family, home and religious tradition are also explored in poems like "Sunrise Service, Solid Rock Baptist Church” where the narrator grounds spiritual doubt in the natural world: “I don’t know if I felt all that I was supposed to feel, /or whether I believed what they said when they said, / ‘He is not here whom you seek,’ I knew / the red fox would run the banks of Pointer’s Creek that day, /the wild iris rise up from a shroud of dew.”
The book's middle section journeys down toward death as the title Katabasis suggests. Here, a somber voice describes how frequently death has touched the narrator’s experiences with simplicity and normality. We are reminded that death most often comes not in a grandiose fashion, but in the course of daily ritual, as with the poem “Elegy for Gary Wolfe”,
The hogs must be persuaded with the shocker,
and Gary ignores his heart as it starts to pound—
the hogs must all be loaded for slaughter.
In the final section, Of Foreign Lands and People, Mulvnia pays formal homage to home, family and the great writers that have clearly shaped this writer’s voice. With detailed imagery, Mulvania eloquently invokes the spirits of Frost and Whitman, often using formal poetic forms and subtle rhyme. Just as the farmers painstakingly tend their fields, Mulvania has expertly crafted a collection of poems bright with imagery and rich in emotion. Also in Arcadia is a beautiful book that I highly recommend reading.
In fact, Andrew is a featured reader at this month's Poetsburgh, Thursday, April 23rd at 8pm at Zany Umbrella's performance space in Lawrenceville. Come out and hear him read from Also in Arcadia and pick up a copy. Don't miss it!
Review by Laura E. Davis
____
and Gary ignores his heart as it starts to pound—
the hogs must all be loaded for slaughter.
In the final section, Of Foreign Lands and People, Mulvnia pays formal homage to home, family and the great writers that have clearly shaped this writer’s voice. With detailed imagery, Mulvania eloquently invokes the spirits of Frost and Whitman, often using formal poetic forms and subtle rhyme. Just as the farmers painstakingly tend their fields, Mulvania has expertly crafted a collection of poems bright with imagery and rich in emotion. Also in Arcadia is a beautiful book that I highly recommend reading.
In fact, Andrew is a featured reader at this month's Poetsburgh, Thursday, April 23rd at 8pm at Zany Umbrella's performance space in Lawrenceville. Come out and hear him read from Also in Arcadia and pick up a copy. Don't miss it!
Review by Laura E. Davis
____
Andrew Mulvania is the author of Also In Arcadia, published by The Backwaters Press in 2008. His poems have appeared in an array of journals, including Poetry, North American Review, Bellingham Review, Green Mountains Review, and others. He was the recipient of a 2008 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Individual Creative Artists Fellowship in Literature. He is currently an assistant professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College.
December 10, 2008
POETSBURGH this Friday, Dec 12th (plus two more events!)
Additional Events this week:
The International Poetry Forum Presents "The Apology Project"
December 10th
Featuring Yannis Simonides
Carlow University, Grace Library
3333 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Contact venue for time and price of admission (412) 621-9893
Weave Poetry Workshop
December 14th 3 - 5pm
Your Inner Vagabond
4130 Butler Street
Lawrenceville, PA 15201
Bring copies of a poem to workshop!
RSVP if you can
The International Poetry Forum Presents "The Apology Project"
December 10th
Featuring Yannis Simonides
Carlow University, Grace Library
3333 Fifth Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Contact venue for time and price of admission (412) 621-9893
Weave Poetry Workshop
December 14th 3 - 5pm
Your Inner Vagabond
4130 Butler Street
Lawrenceville, PA 15201
Bring copies of a poem to workshop!
RSVP if you can
December 8, 2008
Pittsburgh Poetry Events Dec 8-14
Hungry Sphinx Reading Series
Tuesday, Dec 9 @ 8pm
The Sphinx Cafe 401 Atwood St Pittsburgh, PA 15213
POETSBURGH @ Nationality Rooms
Friday, Dec 12 @ 7pm
Cathedral of Learning, English Room
$5 suggested donation
Tuesday, Dec 9 @ 8pm
The Sphinx Cafe 401 Atwood St Pittsburgh, PA 15213
POETSBURGH @ Nationality Rooms
Friday, Dec 12 @ 7pm
Cathedral of Learning, English Room
$5 suggested donation
(events listed at the Pittsburgh Poetry Calendar)
December 3, 2008
POETSBURGH @ Nationality Rooms!
Open Thread and Weave Magazine are back with another edition of POETSBURGH!
December 12, 2008 7pm - 9pm
December 12, 2008 7pm - 9pm
Come hear Tom Laskow, Molly Prosser, Dan Shapiro, and Michelle Stoner share some of their latest work! It's all going down in the fabulous English Nationality Room, the largest of those famed spaces in the Cathedral of Learning!
Doors open promptly at 7pm. $5 suggested donation.
Cathedral of Learning
English Room
4200 5th Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
Cathedral of Learning
English Room
4200 5th Ave, Pittsburgh, PA
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