Pittsburgh Lit Events: September 6 - 12

Monday, September 6:

Free Poetry Workshop
Pittsburgh Poetry Exchange hosts open poetry workshop on the first Monday of each month. Call for details.
Borders Books - Eastside
5986 Penn Circle South Pittsburgh, PA (East Liberty)
7:00pm - free - (412) 481-7636


Tuesday, September 7:

Prosody
91.3 WYEP Radio
7:00pm

Release: Open Mic
Open Mic for poets, emcees and vocalists.
Shadow Lounge
972 Baum Blvd Pittsburgh, PA (East Liberty)
9:00pm(18+) - $5 - (412) 363-8277


Thursday, September 9:

WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
Century Mountain Opening Reception
Weave Issue 03 contributors/cover artists William Rock & Huang Xiang bring their Century Mountain Project to Robert Morris University for a new show: Expanding Borders, Exploring Humanity. Opening reception to feature special performance by Huang Xiang. Exhibit runs through October 14.
RMU Media Arts Gallery
600 Fifth Ave Pittsburgh, PA (downtown)
5:30pm - free

Pittsburgh Writes
Weekly writers workshop.
Crazy Mocha Coffee
531 Beaver Street Sewickley, PA
Call for time - (412) 741-4444


Saturday, September 11:

Writers in the Gardens 2010
Autumn House Press & City of Asylum Pittsburgh present a unique walking garden tour/reading along Pittsburgh's Mexican War Streets, featuring Phillip Terman, Derek Green, Jan Beatty, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, and Weave Issue 03 contributor Sheryl St Germain. Event is free, but limited to 60 attendees. Reserve a spot by contacting: lauramustio@gmail.com
City of Asylum Pittsburgh
Sampsonia Way @ Mattress Factory (north side)
4:00pm - free - lauramustio@gmail.com

WEAVE FEATURED EVENT!
City of Asylum Jazz Poetry Concert
Annual showcase of free global literary expression features 18 musicians including Oliver Lake, and writers including Pulitzer Prize winner Yusef Komunyakka (U.S.A.), Marya Martysevich (Belarus), HInemoana Baker (New Zealand), Horacio Castellanos Moya (El Salvador), and City of Asylum writer-in-residence Khet Mar (Burma). Concert concludes with "world music and beat-matched poetry" dance party with DJ Soy Sauce.
City of Asylum Pittsburgh
Sampsonia Way @ Mattress Factory (north side)
7:30pm - free - (412) 321-2190




Do you have a literary event you want to see listed on our calendar?
E-mail details to: joel.weavezine@gmail.com

Announcements Galore!

Weave has a number of announcements this week. First and foremost, we have a fantastic bunch of new editors and readers who have joined the Weave team. When Weave asked for people to send in their CV's and get involved, we got such a great response from amazingly talent and intelligent people. Check out the staff page to read up on how awesome we all are.

Thanks to everyone who inquired about sharing a table with Weave at AWP! Weave will be tabling it up in 2011 with the fantastically quirky indie journal A cappella Zoo. Oh the colorful swag we will have at our table! I cannot wait. A cappella Zoo and Weave are also teaming up with Ampersand Books for an off-site reading. The details are still in the works, but it promises to be filled with great poetry, awesome prose and extremely posh furniture. And of course booze. Stay tuned!

Weave is also happy to announce that we have a fantastic line-up of talented readers and performers for our SPF offsite event on September 25th. We only wish we had unlimited time to include everyone who wanted to read.  So for now, save the date, and check back later this week for more info on this event.

Finally, be sure to stop by the Century Mountain Exhibit this Thursday, September 9th! Amazing artistic collaborations between artist William Rock and poet Huang Xiang! Spontaneous poetry readings! Weave issue 03 for sale! What more could you want?

Century Mountain: Expanding Borders, Exploring Humanity

Chinese poet and calligrapher Huang Xiang and American artist William Rock are exhibiting their Century Mountain portraits at Robert Morris. Century Mountain is a collaborative project created by Xiang and Rock. The project name is inspired by the great minds of the people the portray in the work. Of the project, the artists say:

"... collaborative art honors the greatness in us as human beings that has made itself evident throughout the centuries in the form of outstanding creators, thinkers, discoverers, leaders -- essentially people who stood out like mountains throughout the centuries."

Their portrait of Murasaki Shikibu, Japanese novelist and poet, is featured on the cover of Weave's third issue. The exhibition opening takes place Thursday, September 9th from 5:30-8:30pm and will feature spontaneous poetic performances by Huang Xiang. Weave will be in attendance to sell the third issue. Please come out to the Robert Morris Media Arts Gallery and support this amazing project.

The exhibit opening will also include spontaneous poetry performances from renowned Chinese poet, Huang Xiang and Weave will be on hand selling copies of the third issue. This event is not to be missed