tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33793268984041729972024-03-05T01:11:39.474-05:00The New Yinzer Presents...a monthly Pittsburgh reading series featuring emerging and established writers of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction from Pittsburgh and across the nation.SavannahSchrollGuzhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06873794343051035540noreply@blogger.comBlogger94125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-32324405041757737302015-10-08T09:36:00.000-04:002015-10-08T09:37:31.261-04:00TNY Presents: Roberts, Gwin, Newton, and Yune <span style="background-color: orange; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The New Yinzer Presents is back with Celine Roberts, Ben Gwin, Matthew Newton, and Robert Yune!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: orange; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Join us at Modern Formations on THURSDAY, October 15th, at 8PM. There will be beer from Mellingers and various snacks. $5 or FREE with potluck contribution!</span><br />
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tgrieshoberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869480697914744695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-18141723342923901332015-09-10T09:31:00.000-04:002015-09-10T09:31:53.384-04:00And TNY is back: BRICKNER, SOLTESZ, DEKA, BICKFORD<span style="background-color: black; color: #f4cccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">The New Yinzer Presents returns for our fall installment on SEPTEMBER 17th, with some MAJOR TALENT:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f4cccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Seth Bickford</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #f4cccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">Christina Deka</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;">As usual we'll enjoy FREE BEER from Mellingers at the one, the only, MODERN FORMATIONS GALLERY, September 17, 2015, 8PM, $5 cover of FREE with potluck contribution!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #f4cccc; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: large;"><br /><br />Rachel Ann Brickner is originally from Pittsburgh. In a previous life, she worked in publishing in both New York and San Francisco. Currently, she's a first-year MFA candidate at the University of Pittsburgh in fiction and the Writing Pittsburgh Fellow for<i> Creative Nonfiction</i> magazine. You can find her work at <i>Pank</i>, <i>Corium Magazine</i>, and <i>The Female Gaze</i>, among others. </span></div>
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tgrieshoberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15869480697914744695noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-31677499184971881102014-03-20T04:42:00.000-04:002014-03-20T04:43:10.694-04:00March 20: Gegick, Guzick, Gwin, Jones<b>When--Thursday, March 20</b><br />
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<b>Ben Gwin</b>'s<b> </b>fiction has appeared in Burrow Press Review, Dark Sky Magazine, Mary: A Journal of New Writing, and others. He lives in Pittsburgh with his daughter.<br />
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<b>T.C. Jones</b> is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. His fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Monarch Review, The New Yinzer, Gadfly Magazine, and Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland. In 2013, Jones won the TAR award for fiction in The April Reader. He currently directs Jam2Jam, a quarterly literary and art series and recently has been named the fiction editor at Lime Hawk Literary Arts Collective, a New York City based literary magazine. He lives in Lawrenceville with his fiancée, poet SJ Guzik. Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-75039026260080373042013-11-13T05:30:00.000-05:002013-11-13T05:30:09.544-05:00November 21: Cook, Gaydos, Martinac, Parker<b>When--Thursday, November 21st
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<b>Julie Ann Cook</b>, of Rock Hill, South Carolina, is a happily married, joyfully outnumbered mother of five boys, two of whom were stillborn. Between assisting in living room railroad construction and addressing concerns of who would win in a fight between Megatron and Iron Man, Julie is an author, artist, and webmaster. With her mom and dad having been raised in the Pittsburgh area (Carrick and Kennedy Township respectively), Julie grew up in Beaver County until she flew south for college in 1998. A graduate of Winthrop University, Julie has been published in various venues, including Kakalak Anthology of Carolina Poets, Iodine Poetry Journal, moonShine review, MaMaZina.com, and The Wolf. She is celebrating the release of her inaugural poetry book, Love Like Weeds, (Main Street Rag Publishing Company, October 2013).<br />
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<b>Raiona Gaydos</b> grew up in a Brooklyn soap-factory-turned-performance-space that, on weekend nights, was commandeered by street poets, topless drummers, and white-faced Butoh dancers who used her childhood lair as their dressing room. When a radio interviewer asked her at eight years old how she felt about all of this, she is reported to have said, “I’m gonna be really weird when I grow up.” She was right. She has studied at the New School in New York City, lived in Paris, and is now back in her birth-town of Pittsburgh running “B.E. Literary” events and publications at Biddle’s Escape. She has finally started to edit and share some of the things she’s been writing over the years.<br />
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winning <i>Out of Time</i>, which was recently re-released as an e-book. She has also published three nonfiction books on lesbian and gay culture and politics, and numerous articles, essays, and short stories. Her plays have had productions with Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company, Manhattan Theatre Source, the Pittsburgh New Works Festival, No Name Players, and others. Find out more about her writing at <br />
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<b>Kelcey Parker</b>’s first book, For Sale By Owner (Kore Press), won the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Award in Short Fiction and was a Finalist for the 2012 Best Books of Indiana. She directs the creative writing program at Indiana University South Bend. During the summer of 2012, she worked as an Ask-Me Guide at Fallingwater, where she asked as many questions as she answered, helped visitors get the perfect photo of Fallingwater, and always kept an eye out for Liliane’s ghost. Visit Kelcey’s website: <a href="http://kelceyparker.com/" target="_blank">http://kelceyparker.com/</a>Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-16657503447897156832013-10-16T07:39:00.000-04:002013-10-16T07:45:14.120-04:00October 17: Dietrich, Rem-Martin, Steffen<b>When--Thursday, October 17th </b><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlQ50m8M5n2Uz0WCm_7qUW3krE3mpWMSX6JGNt8nfsG8TgFyOpFTL9A5-P2H8bqG7IpawnaX1JnzdBpdS0nekRVYMMZL0vWInretj_TYcpltCmKdxgnddjaxLr2SxjoJNSWGBEdnTNhIe/s1600/Oct_NYer_KD.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="212" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTlQ50m8M5n2Uz0WCm_7qUW3krE3mpWMSX6JGNt8nfsG8TgFyOpFTL9A5-P2H8bqG7IpawnaX1JnzdBpdS0nekRVYMMZL0vWInretj_TYcpltCmKdxgnddjaxLr2SxjoJNSWGBEdnTNhIe/s320/Oct_NYer_KD.jpg" width="320" /></a><b>Karen Dietrich</b> grew up in the 1980s in Connellsville, a small factory town fifty-seven miles from Pittsburgh. Her first memoir, THE GIRL FACTORY (skirt/Globe Pequot) was published October 1, 2013. Karen lives in Greensburg, where she works as an adjunct writing instructor at Westmoreland County Community College and the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg. She recently joined the faculty of the online creative writing MFA program at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Her work has appeared in Joyland, Smokelong Quarterly, Specter, and elsewhere.<br />
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<b>Sarah Beth (Rem) Martin</b>, penname SBR Martin, was bred, born, and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she continues to live and work as a writer, journalist, and mother. An alumna of The Ellis School, the University of Pittsburgh, and the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, she currently writes for The South Pittsburgh Reporter and is employed as an independent copywriter serving a variety of clients from small businesses to Fortune 500 companies. Described as "a psychological and thoughtful novel of suspense" by Midwest Book Review, Martin's debut novel, "In Wake of Water," was published in Oct. 2011. Less than a year later, her second book, "Pig," hit the market after placing as a Second Prize Quarterfinalist in the 2012 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest, where Publisher’s Weekly said of it, “The ultimate resolution of the story makes for quite a surprise… (Martin) is able to build good characters, flawed and believable, yet familiar, so that at the end one is saddened, but also, in a strange way, enriched.” “Pig” was recognized by Suspense Magazine as a Best of 2012 book, in the category of Indie Fiction, and won First Place for Best Lesbian Contemporary General Fiction in the 2012 Elisa Rolle International Rainbow Awards. Martin is presently working on her third novel, which takes a controversial look at murder as an artform and uniquely explores one’s ownership over the creative process.
Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-24361999502083290932013-09-18T13:08:00.002-04:002013-09-18T13:14:35.411-04:00September 19: Feldman, Greenlaw, Korn, Shapiro<b>When--Thursday, September 19th</b><br />
<b>Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh</b><br />
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Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-41720962599163329902013-08-14T11:32:00.001-04:002013-08-14T11:34:06.165-04:00New Season Kickoff! August 15: Malloy, Patton, Sepe<b>When--Thursday, August 15th</b><br />
<b>Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh</b><br />
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<b><------Joshua M. Patton </b>is a Pittsburgh native and veteran of the US Army currently attending the University of Pittsburgh thanks to the Post-9/11 GI Bill. He is a regular contributor to Veteran Journal, Dadditudes, WhatToExpect.com, and AND Magazine. His fiction has been anthologized in The Sins of the Seven, published by Wicked East Press. His work has taken first-place in the 2011 & 2012 Writer's Cafe/Prosody awards in non-fiction and poetry, respectively. He is a Member Spokesperson for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He spends the rest of his time trying his best to not embarrass his eleven-year-old daughter.<br />
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Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-20332686246893965182013-05-16T17:10:00.001-04:002013-05-16T17:11:12.044-04:00May 16: Jones, Salvadeo, Wagner<b>When--Thursday, May 16th</b><br />
<b>Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh</b><br />
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<b>T.C Jones</b> is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh. His writing has appeared in the Monarch Review, The New Yinzer, Gadfly Magazine, and won the TAR award for fiction in The April Reader. A resident of the east end of Pittsburgh, T.C. currently directs a quarterly literary and art series called Jam2Jam.
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<b>Alicia Salvadeo</b> was raised in Staten Island, NY, and Stroudsburg, PA. She now lives in Pittsburgh's Polish Hill, where she spends more time on her porch than in any other room in the apartment. Current obsessions include Game of Thrones, Muriel Rukeyser, and Freddie Mercury. Her poetry and critical work has most recently appeared or is forthcoming in Bombay Gin, The Volta, DIAGRAM, and Phantom Limb.<br />
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<b>Jasmine Dreame Wagner</b> is the author of Rewilding (Ahsahta Press, 2013) and Listening for Earthquakes (Caketrain Journal and Press, 2012.) Her writing has appeared in American Letters & Commentary, Blackbird, Colorado Review, Indiana Review, NANO Fiction, New American Writing, Seattle Review, Verse, and in two anthologies: The Arcadia Project: North American Postmodern Pastoral (Ahsahta Press, 2012) and Lost and Found: Stories from New York (Mr. Beller's Neighborhood Books, 2009.) A graduate of Columbia University and the University of Montana, Jasmine has received grants and fellowships from the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Summer Literary Seminars - Kenya, and The Wassaic Project. She lives in Brooklyn and teaches creative writing at Western Connecticut State University.<b> </b>Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-11374851506273082482013-04-13T14:59:00.002-04:002013-04-13T14:59:50.159-04:00April 18: Boyd, Good, Hall, Irwin, Mancus, Wong<b>When--Thursday, April 18</b><br />
<b>Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh</b><br />
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<b>Cover- $5 or free w/ contribution of potluck dish</b><br />
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<b><-----Mike Good</b> is a binge coffee drinker from Plum Boro, who graduated from the University of Pittsburgh in 2011. Since then, he co-founded the Hour After Happy Hour Writers' Workshop (thehourafterhappyhour.wordpress.com) - a casual writers' workshop that meets biweekly in Bloomfield's Big Idea Bookstore. Mike writes poetry and fiction.<br />
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<b><-----Jason Irwin</b> grew up in Dunkirk, NY and now live in Pittsburgh. His first collection of poetry "Watering the Dead" won the 2006/2007 Transcontinental Poetry Award and was published in 2008 by Pavement Saw Press. In 2005 his manuscript "Some Days It's A Love Story" won the Slipstream Press Chapbook Prize.
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<b><-----Angela Veronica Wong</b> is the author of how to survive a hotel fire (Coconut Books 2012). She is on the internet at angelaveronicawong.com.Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-46649262772294161612013-03-11T10:02:00.002-04:002013-03-11T10:02:19.287-04:00March 21: Dietrich, Hill, Knapps<b>When--Thursday, March 21st </b><br />
<b>Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh </b><br />
<b>Time- 8:00 p.m. </b><br />
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<b>Mike Knapps------></b> lives and works in Pittsburgh. He’s written for a long time, but he’s never gotten anything published. He puts things on the internet at <a href="http://www.theburningbarrel.com/" target="_blank">www.theburningbarrel.com</a>Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-92229342148508231192013-03-08T20:05:00.001-05:002013-03-08T20:05:15.177-05:00February New Yinzer in PhotosWe had a packed house for the kick off reading of 2013. Stay tuned for more about the March 21 reading, and enjoy some photos in the meantime:<br />
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Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-76640000071389168272013-02-16T16:48:00.000-05:002013-02-16T16:49:56.661-05:00February 21: Davis, Kauffman, Leitner, McCloskey, Stidle<b>When--Thursday, February 21st</b><br />
<b>Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh</b><br />
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<b><-----Lucy Leitner </b>is the author of the horror-comedy novel <i>Working Stiffs</i>, a satirical take on what happens when zombies invade a corporate office. Raised in Arlington, VA, she adopted Pittsburgh as her hometown when she arrived in 2001 to attend the University of Pittsburgh. Though she earned a masters degree in journalism from Point Park, she estimates that she has earned more money betting on Penguins games than she has as a reporter. By day, she is a writer for a local marketing firm and by night, she is usually sleeping. When not working on her second novel, Lucy covers the burgeoning Pittsburgh film scene on the Hollyburgh blog and is learning Krav Maga.<br />
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<b><-----Matt Stidle</b> is overly verbose.Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-2647899427930158772012-11-12T11:36:00.000-05:002012-11-12T11:37:21.655-05:00November 15th: Alexander, McIntosh, Ramirez<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiSdybAIiz9KYsEgyhVEu0dpcc8S3V8_HH7Na1GzaDNQCUBHl7uk8VvfPqUlIKLVo7L6WX47bfYV1Qw69KUq8Aa0zobFp9WDMi6zblCY5qSyrgM5WcIZ2nYdDczmNVy4DSIds5nmHhWavAI/s1600/1TNYlogo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"></a><b>When--Thursday, November 15th </b><br />
<b>Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh </b><br />
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<b>Lisa Alexander </b>holds an MFA in Poetry from Drew University and is a member of the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshop. Her work has been published in various journals including <i>Bloom</i>, <i>The Burnside Review</i>, <i>Girls with Glasses</i>, Pittsburgh's <i>City Paper</i> and anthologized in <i>Voices from the Attic</i>. She's a sound engineer for Prosody, NPR-affiliate WESA's weekly show featuring the work of national writers. Her manuscript <i>throttlebody</i> is being submitted for publication.
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<b>Adriana E. Ramirez</b> is a nonfiction writer and performance poet with over fifteen years experience in theater, spoken word, and advocacy. Once ranked the 26th slam poet in the world (iwps 2006), she helped found and co-hosted the Latino/Indigenous Showcase at the National Poetry Slam; she now serves as creative director of Pittsburgh Poetry Collective and slammaster of the Steel City Slam. Her poems and writings have appeared on the internet, on subway station walls, and occasionally, on pieces of dead wood. She loves technology and refreshments—mineral water, limes, and cheap Mexican food. Adriana lives in Pittsburgh, where she is writing a book about her death fantasies, Colombia, and the way we tell stories around violence. She
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<br />Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-91212814927292953742012-09-04T12:39:00.000-04:002012-09-04T12:39:29.560-04:00September TNY: Starring New Yinzer Staff!<b>When- Thursday, September 20th </b><br />
<b>Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh </b><br />
<b>Time- 8:00 p.m. </b><br />
<b>Cover- $5 or free w/ contribution of potluck dish </b><br />
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To celebrate The New Yinzer’s 10th anniversary, this month's readers are all New Yinzer staff members:
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<b>Holly Coleman---> </b>will someday have Pittsburgh eating out of the palm of her hand. But for now she likes to emcee the TNY Presents and kick it with the hooligans on Troy Hill.
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<b><---Taylor Grieshober</b> is a writer living in Wilkinsburg. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the<i> Pittsburgh Post Gazette</i>, <i>Monkeybicycle</i>, <i>Voices from the Attic</i>, <i>The New Yinzer</i>, and <i>Weave</i>. She is also co-director of TNY Presents.
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<b>Karen Lillis---></b> is the author of four books of fiction, most recently <i>Watch the Doors as They Close</i> (Spuyten Duyvil Novella Series, 2012). She is a small press blogger and freelance writer. She blogs for TNY Presents.
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<b> <---</b><b>Mark Mangini</b> is an editor at <i>The New Yinzer</i>.
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<b> Adam Matcho---></b> has been a contributing columnist for <i>The New Yinzer</i> since 2006. He currently writes obituaries for a living. In the time between, he tries his best to write about life. His chapbook <i>Six Dollars an Hour: Confessions of a Gemini Writer </i>was published by Liquid Paper Press.<br />
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<b><---Scott Silsbe</b> was born in Detroit. He now lives in Pittsburgh where he sells books, plays in bands, watches local sports, and edits <i>The New Yinzer</i>. His work has appeared a number of places including <i>Third Coast</i>, <i>Kitchen Sink</i>, and the <i>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette</i>.
Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-56711891672196736412012-08-12T16:45:00.001-04:002012-08-12T16:45:26.910-04:00August 16: Chiusano, Collins, Taylor<b>When- Thursday, August 16th </b><br />
<b>Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh </b><br />
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<b>Erin Taylor</b> works part time as a waitress at Abay and spends the rest of her time writing, picking up stray animals, and getting on her husband's nerves. She graduated from The University of Pittsburgh in 2005 where she studied English Literature. She has published non-fiction work for Gateway Newspapers as well as Cranberry Patch online newspaper. Going forward, Erin hopes to publish a collection of short stories that are beautiful and most likely sad.Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-72198681679081804932012-08-07T12:56:00.000-04:002012-08-07T12:56:36.738-04:00The New Yinzer Presents is Back! August 16th<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Stay tuned for reader bios.Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-34038139655655749012012-05-23T17:00:00.000-04:002012-05-23T17:00:05.809-04:00May 24: Holder, Knapps, Mattern, Walicki<b>When- Thursday, May 24th<br />Where- ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh<br />Time- 8:00 p.m.<br />Cover- $5 or free w/ contribution of potluck dish<br />BYOB!</b><br />
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<b>G.M. Holder</b> was born in the United States in 1977. In 2002, at age 24, he traveled alone to postwar Former Yugoslavia and after returning to the U.S. spent ten years writing Love Songs & Monster Songs, which chronicles many of his experiences there. In 2007 he traveled to Northern California where he began research for a trilogy he has been writing since then about the Zodiac Killer. Later that year he also hitchhiked across the country collecting stories for a book which concerns Gutterpunk, train hopping, and hitchhiking cultures. Amongst other ongoing writing projects he is at work on a large fictive neo-classical examination of the United States and a novel about chronic pain and the disability system. Though he is still widely unrecognized outside of underground literary circles, Holder's lyrical and encyclopedic writing style is already being compared to the likes of Thomas Pynchon, James Joyce and William T. Vollmann. Since 2000 he has lived in Portland, Oregon. He is the author of The Introduction to the World.<br />
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<b>Mike Knapps</b> lives and works in Pittsburgh. He’s written for a long time, but he’s never gotten anything published. He puts things on the internet at <a href="http://www.theburningbarrel.com/">www.theburningbarrel.com</a>.<br />
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<b>Robert Walicki</b>, a freelance poet has been inspired by his inner muse through various forms of writing and poetry over the years.He is an active member of the Pittsburgh writer’s studio and the Pittsburgh poetry exchange. Most recently,he has had his poetry published in the shot glass journal.He keeps busy organizing the chaos of creation daily with his wife and two cats,while looking forward to his appearance in May as one of the featured writers at the New Yinzer Reading Series.Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-53710614160228964732012-04-23T22:01:00.000-04:002012-04-23T22:03:17.505-04:00April 26: Barber, Boyd, Huber<b>When</b> - Thursday, April 26th<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTn-CiP3catHTS3NDulSevQspXVU2MTOsy-gaJ5ebazojJIPeBOlSfkwyfi808DaoUapKVXKn7S_4rjbnWv2-Whi3txbF41VoDFK4OOOWxuyPAbynMiLzH3E_lAxe90lza2gigKfqzImvO/s1600/April_Boyd.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTn-CiP3catHTS3NDulSevQspXVU2MTOsy-gaJ5ebazojJIPeBOlSfkwyfi808DaoUapKVXKn7S_4rjbnWv2-Whi3txbF41VoDFK4OOOWxuyPAbynMiLzH3E_lAxe90lza2gigKfqzImvO/s200/April_Boyd.jpg" width="200" /></a><b>Eric Boyd</b> is an editor for the Newer York, as well as Pork & Mead magazine. Boyd is a graduate of the Words Without Walls writing program at Chatham Universtiy in Pittsburgh; he was recently awarded second place in the PEN American Center's 2012 Prison Writing contest. Boyd’s fiction work has appeared in several magazines, both online and in print. His first short story collection, WHISKEY SOUR, was released this month by Chatham / Nervous Puppy Publishing.<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSy6F1Jt1bNn67_-U2xOI2R3P3qg_xPzHWawC7ZhGAah0qIPdPnYvD1yDFWIK5wvdJlN8sH6277CPzQ38dKRmOXHAoXsHSk7DBUvbXHMjUCvMYMg_e8p89KN26KS_pnO09C0j5WTudoBu/s1600/April_RoseHuber.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtSy6F1Jt1bNn67_-U2xOI2R3P3qg_xPzHWawC7ZhGAah0qIPdPnYvD1yDFWIK5wvdJlN8sH6277CPzQ38dKRmOXHAoXsHSk7DBUvbXHMjUCvMYMg_e8p89KN26KS_pnO09C0j5WTudoBu/s200/April_RoseHuber.jpg" width="120" /></a><b>Rose Huber</b> is a science and technology writer for the University of Pittsburgh. Before moving back to PA, she lived in Baltimore, where she received her M.F.A. in Creative Writing & Publishing Arts 2010 and wrote a novella, "A Bear's Place." Her work has been featured in Pear Noir, Weave, and The Light Ekphrastic. She is currently working on a science-into-story chapbook where she translates her science press releases into prose-style poetry. She writes about lots of things and stuff at www.bindandcreate.com.Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-10262837712050432802012-03-20T22:24:00.009-04:002012-03-21T10:01:10.931-04:00March 22: Andrews, Crawford, Aizenman<b>When</b> - Thursday, March 22nd<br /><b>Where</b> - ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh<br /><b>Time</b> – 8:00 p.m.<br /><b>Cover</b> - $5 or free w/ contribution to potluck<br /><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwAzxuyB-Y5cvxExpayeJ1fhe88sgLNg4GmG0ozqka68IVodhJYNBiObq8c14kZzQeZIvlD2OnnS8HRuCt8gIGxfGWhyphenhyphenqLFWcIvfbBrVACWIWKLSoVBYP_XHaN2Jw8qDXi-xTm1M6uy7d5/s1600/March_NY_Kelly.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 400px; height: 230px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwAzxuyB-Y5cvxExpayeJ1fhe88sgLNg4GmG0ozqka68IVodhJYNBiObq8c14kZzQeZIvlD2OnnS8HRuCt8gIGxfGWhyphenhyphenqLFWcIvfbBrVACWIWKLSoVBYP_XHaN2Jw8qDXi-xTm1M6uy7d5/s400/March_NY_Kelly.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722173619628643346" border="0" /></a><b>Kelly Andrews</b> is a 9-5 stiff getting her kicks as a regular rabble-rouser on the weekends. She'd like to lay claim to being a superfluous writer, but she spends most of her free time doting on her cat. Her work has appeared in Pear Noir! and is forthcoming in Weave Magazine, and she'd like to stress that "the characters are all fictional."<br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WGEMPjDbQYJtLjE5wcxignu2JEo1aeGYYhMvKPwsdem1rsJCjIRYrygdJLX9k1UZrOzFgPxknKjN0JdHdMCM9mrLbjrP6b0GUNT4359S_cypznl9O98inosTuwTO9PKgYwLLHpm9ZLou/s1600/March_NY_Caitlyn.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj_WGEMPjDbQYJtLjE5wcxignu2JEo1aeGYYhMvKPwsdem1rsJCjIRYrygdJLX9k1UZrOzFgPxknKjN0JdHdMCM9mrLbjrP6b0GUNT4359S_cypznl9O98inosTuwTO9PKgYwLLHpm9ZLou/s400/March_NY_Caitlyn.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722173282108799938" border="0" /></a><b>Caitlin Crawford </b>graduated in May 2009 from Carlow University with a degree in Biology and is now working feverishly on applying to vet school. She currently works full time at the Animal Rescue League helping pets find new homes and works part time at Allegro Hearth Bakery helping cookies and bread find new homes, too. In her scant spare time, she mostly hangs out with her cats or dances, sometimes both.<br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzRgmbZuBCoOTLfMXRgVFKEH-71lrVAg02kN8GWuGmyj8fn4YSXYxI9euzW4QFh6yoCstU1TycSt-jxVWWTrutHU0EtjIpSUoSzhhCmPU04UQxOzg2qdGQYmiekhxsCn72oD81a4oPXsfz/s1600/March_HA.jpg"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 226px; height: 151px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgzRgmbZuBCoOTLfMXRgVFKEH-71lrVAg02kN8GWuGmyj8fn4YSXYxI9euzW4QFh6yoCstU1TycSt-jxVWWTrutHU0EtjIpSUoSzhhCmPU04UQxOzg2qdGQYmiekhxsCn72oD81a4oPXsfz/s400/March_HA.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5722345057013011250" border="0" /></a><b>Hannah Aizenman</b> hails from Birmingham, Alabama. She will graduate from the University of Pittsburgh in April with degrees in English Writing (Poetry) and History of Art and Architecture. Her work has appeared in Three Rivers Review and is forthcoming in Collision Literary Magazine. She has an affinity for steel cities, storytelling, and bourbon. After graduation, she looks forward to entering this “real world” she’s heard so much about.</div>Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-53844949247463865492012-02-22T16:24:00.006-05:002012-02-22T16:39:48.088-05:00February 23: Loveridge, Olifson, Whelan<b>When</b> - Thursday, February 23rd<br /><b>Where</b> - ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh<br /><b>Time</b> – 8:00 p.m.<br /><b>Cover</b> - $5 or free w/ contribution to potluck<br /><span style="font-weight: bold;"><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicq30ioofJFsr62s9jPCjJ88vkdoIij3L5G4QVcuaibatsj1wBF6xmV3P0GeeGsFZjLibXowzPyY_3bGRrDv1fdM2IxsA3H_sU9fr6NlLFZg6fv0XF9zOJLYtdkWbkpIwkOvm4gbsdckz6/s1600/FEB_AELoverige2.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 250px; height: 250px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicq30ioofJFsr62s9jPCjJ88vkdoIij3L5G4QVcuaibatsj1wBF6xmV3P0GeeGsFZjLibXowzPyY_3bGRrDv1fdM2IxsA3H_sU9fr6NlLFZg6fv0XF9zOJLYtdkWbkpIwkOvm4gbsdckz6/s400/FEB_AELoverige2.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712076259788335826" border="0" /></a>A. E. Loveridge</span> is the author of two chapbooks, <span style="font-style: italic;">Poems for Business Travelers</span> (Dancing Girl Press, 2011) and <span style="font-style: italic;">Congregation</span> (Little Book Publications, 2008). Her poems have been published or are forthcoming in <span style="font-style: italic;">The Southeast Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Barely South Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Tulane Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Used Furniture Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">Southern Women’s Review</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">wicked alice</span>, <span style="font-style: italic;">The New Yinzer</span>, and multiple anthologies. She is a proud active participant in Literazzi, a poetry and performance troupe that is focused on increasing literacy in Pittsburgh. She is a Southerner by birth, holds dual citizenship in Great Britain, and now happily lives and writes from Pittsburgh, PA when not paying the bills as a traveling bureaucrat.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruNl_dwvZO7CoKCqDjyrKGUWFh-0mYnEHaeba9QVJC5yZq5PiguPz15JMYnJbPrHYSyvi4Uwq0SiXlYUoyEdDfEkptGy_iNEepySHcG6jEtwyjQxi4UCT9vKqbj2yuSjnf5-0Piw9D6p6/s1600/FEB_alan_bw2_crop.gif"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 277px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjruNl_dwvZO7CoKCqDjyrKGUWFh-0mYnEHaeba9QVJC5yZq5PiguPz15JMYnJbPrHYSyvi4Uwq0SiXlYUoyEdDfEkptGy_iNEepySHcG6jEtwyjQxi4UCT9vKqbj2yuSjnf5-0Piw9D6p6/s320/FEB_alan_bw2_crop.gif" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712077778453525186" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alan Olifson</span> is an award-winning humor columnist, public radio commentator, and comedian who is currently working on a book of essays (not that anyone asked him to). He was born and raised in Los Angeles but recently moved to Pittsburgh when he realized no one was forcing him to spend his life sitting on the freeway. In L.A. Alan created and produced the acclaimed storytelling-with-a-DJ-soundtrack series <span style="font-style: italic;">WordPlay</span> (<a href="http://www.wordplayshow.com/">http://www.wordplayshow.com</a>), which he is in the process of bringing to Pittsburgh along with most of his furniture. In Pittsburgh he is host of the monthly <span style="font-style: italic;">Moth StorySLAM</span> (<a href="http://themoth.org/">http://themoth.org</a>) and will be debuting his one-person show at the Bricolage Theater's <span style="font-style: italic;">In the Raw</span> series. On the internet he blogs at <a href="http://www.themanchild.net/">www.themanchild.net</a>. At home he is mostly just told to put a sock in it.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTyMikVTYrD9Sp5QTb1Ug39UGfDZ9tfqAVQ3gKsdrPgvpl6-HeCMs4gymZ6ovrHQmCMAysneXhqYD9OKFKIai_9k9bkoFwvzAuTD6T213-2p_ISOn5FUXQOM7ZQg81KG46AcqrhXjv5m2_/s1600/FEB_Whelan.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 300px; height: 264px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhTyMikVTYrD9Sp5QTb1Ug39UGfDZ9tfqAVQ3gKsdrPgvpl6-HeCMs4gymZ6ovrHQmCMAysneXhqYD9OKFKIai_9k9bkoFwvzAuTD6T213-2p_ISOn5FUXQOM7ZQg81KG46AcqrhXjv5m2_/s400/FEB_Whelan.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5712077534818961218" border="0" /></a><span style="font-weight: bold;">Carolyne Whelan</span> received her MFA in poetry and nonfiction at Chatham University in 2009, where she was a finalist for Best Thesis. She was awarded an Honorable Mention in the Sacramento Poetry Center Prize for a Single Poem, a partial scholarship to the Vermont Studio Center, and recently attended A Room Of Her Own Foundation's 2011 Retreat. Her first chapbook, <span style="font-style: italic;">The Glossary of Tania Aebi</span>, was recently published by Finishing Line Press. Her second chapbook, <span style="font-style: italic;">Chain Down the Moon</span>, and her full length manuscript, <span style="font-style: italic;">Roadside Fires Burning</span>, have both been finalists in national chapbook and first book publishing competitions, respectively. She has work forthcoming in <span style="font-style: italic;">Willows Wept Review</span>, the medical journal <span style="font-style: italic;">CHEST</span>, and an anthology titled <span style="font-style: italic;">200 New Mexico Poems</span>. She lives in Pittsburgh, PA as a part-time legal secretary and as a writing instructor at the Community College of Allegheny County.Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-33891140628980914252012-01-10T19:29:00.006-05:002012-01-10T19:39:50.567-05:00January 26: COGGINS, HORNER, STEVENS-DAVIS<b>When</b> - Thursday, January 26th<br /><b>Where</b> - ModernFormations Gallery, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh<br /><b>Time</b> – 8:00 p.m.<br /><b>Cover</b> - $5 or free w/ contribution to potluck<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkawPQ_tudtL4lPTO14vQmlM90KdPnr2BDWQY3iTMc1HNxX1U9O3lZf6T7W7RnNo4MCtu4TuyBvqc59bwpjykG69ZOdo6XeKeWqdQ5tzcmxbs32heD-Lt8nGMyopWqj9h70plQgjGKGW8O/s1600/JAN_Coggins_photo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjkawPQ_tudtL4lPTO14vQmlM90KdPnr2BDWQY3iTMc1HNxX1U9O3lZf6T7W7RnNo4MCtu4TuyBvqc59bwpjykG69ZOdo6XeKeWqdQ5tzcmxbs32heD-Lt8nGMyopWqj9h70plQgjGKGW8O/s320/JAN_Coggins_photo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696166292567473490" /></a><b>Joel W. Coggins</b> is a book designer, editor, and writer from Pittsburgh (by way of Ohio).<br /><br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIIpw9AKWuTMLZtkIfyjxaiwwFBQDv1qbkZ-yScOkvIblawLyVhz7W0A8k47xpdyywAI1zOlehp-J4BHAC1_1LpEmBQnYIq_3AebpozIOie1C0lgAD_fkfLOqg7vXVSpbFwWVoruY3F6s/s1600/1TNYlogo.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 136px; height: 87px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhYIIpw9AKWuTMLZtkIfyjxaiwwFBQDv1qbkZ-yScOkvIblawLyVhz7W0A8k47xpdyywAI1zOlehp-J4BHAC1_1LpEmBQnYIq_3AebpozIOie1C0lgAD_fkfLOqg7vXVSpbFwWVoruY3F6s/s400/1TNYlogo.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696167285681111666" /></a><b>Drew Horner</b> is a 30 year old writer born and raised in the Pittsburgh area. He graduated from IUP with a B.A in English - Writing and a B.A. in Philosophy - which is probably why he now manages a restaurant in East Liberty. He works mostly in short fiction despite the fact that he predominately reads novels and non-fiction.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUpdUYwGoDlEJMWwTaF-FHRe0iI_pMYkw3Yv7IC1u1yZ10XlJc-tf2XuTZyjNsffFNnK3cE5aUJ9Cz4kOE-J_MKDyqeWjj88Q5gmgEVJxAOn5JHqH-rqqNrOKpvMifHVCGrogGpHIn2k6/s1600/JAN_cate_tny.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFUpdUYwGoDlEJMWwTaF-FHRe0iI_pMYkw3Yv7IC1u1yZ10XlJc-tf2XuTZyjNsffFNnK3cE5aUJ9Cz4kOE-J_MKDyqeWjj88Q5gmgEVJxAOn5JHqH-rqqNrOKpvMifHVCGrogGpHIn2k6/s320/JAN_cate_tny.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5696166771636003378" /></a><b>Cate Stevens-Davis</b> earned her MFA in fiction writing from Chatham University in 2009. Her stories have appeared in <i>Six Sentences</i>, the <i>6SV1</i> anthology, <i>greatest lakes review</i>, <i>Wanderlust Review</i>, <i>The Linnet's Wings</i> and <i>shadyside review</i>, among others, and her chapbook, <i>Big Women, Big Girls</i>, is forthcoming from Stamped Books.<br /></div>Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-12379138990966094872011-11-03T11:16:00.008-04:002012-01-10T19:40:26.586-05:00TNY Presents November 17: Alberts, Hoover, Matthews, Stoner<b>When</b> - Thursday, November 17th<br /><b>Where</b> - ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh<br /><b>Time</b> – 8:00 p.m.<br /><b>Cover</b> - $5 or free w/ contribution to potluck<br /><div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FogCB9Yfye1l4j0uA3RwOrZpzY_2YB0vSIHKVCUZshOs9suKepHPte_pX5STpzYGERzj0nGPAXTX0GARCDnn1Ij5aVtiyhm9K9WUZjFqIMVPrNOf77tpn-MtYzWgg2CUTD2Ys8EUvuNK/s1600/TNY_NOV_dm.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 159px; height: 200px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5FogCB9Yfye1l4j0uA3RwOrZpzY_2YB0vSIHKVCUZshOs9suKepHPte_pX5STpzYGERzj0nGPAXTX0GARCDnn1Ij5aVtiyhm9K9WUZjFqIMVPrNOf77tpn-MtYzWgg2CUTD2Ys8EUvuNK/s200/TNY_NOV_dm.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670792430921093186" /></a><b>David V. Matthews</b> was born on Neil Young's 20th birthday. David's writing has appeared in the <i>Pittsburgh City Paper</i> and <i>Unicorn Mountain</i>, and he has given readings at Brillobox and the Andy Warhol Museum. Also, his art has appeared in several Western Pennsylvania galleries, including Garfield Artworks, which held a retrospective of his drawings this June. A documentary about him, directed by Pittsburgh filmmaker Julie Sokolow, is in production. He lives with a couple of orangutans made from coconuts.<br /><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8ExcrOUxoHV25anV32xm4B3F7hDMVh9IUP7trpHnRqZcH0pVnGgrIKvpZQLERs9-EL3bZr2RgU7a0zhhkDb8oHyMII5E0ledDVhn_8VVOE9MpDl42qEV9YwXd4uui7VbBGf4EFUSkTci/s1600/TNY_NOV_ra.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 208px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK8ExcrOUxoHV25anV32xm4B3F7hDMVh9IUP7trpHnRqZcH0pVnGgrIKvpZQLERs9-EL3bZr2RgU7a0zhhkDb8oHyMII5E0ledDVhn_8VVOE9MpDl42qEV9YwXd4uui7VbBGf4EFUSkTci/s400/TNY_NOV_ra.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670792650392794866" /></a><b>Renee Alberts</b>' poetry and visual art have appeared in print, dance performances, live radio shows and at least one tattoo. She is author of the poetry collection <i>No Water</i> and editor of <i>Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry & Reading Series Anthology</i>, a collection of writers featured in the series she founded and curates. She guest hosts 90.5 FM’s Prosody and moderates the Pittsburgh Literary Calendar. She posts writing, photography, and collage, including her Detail a Day Project, at <a href="http://www.animalprayer.com/">animalprayer.com</a>.<br /><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4O7b5X0UmI-lqAow9MtsiOabQ0eVpQFVBd4E3FlU0K3mZJsp4-Zbe6uDduSHf0iVv5BuVz6vQBOsLfz9HG_lEalO0jtT7sBOAIAkTNmfi2aIZyV4pYkXNnv2Hzc0SuJR-mvRpGz8-FU1G/s1600/TNY_NOV_eh.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 222px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi4O7b5X0UmI-lqAow9MtsiOabQ0eVpQFVBd4E3FlU0K3mZJsp4-Zbe6uDduSHf0iVv5BuVz6vQBOsLfz9HG_lEalO0jtT7sBOAIAkTNmfi2aIZyV4pYkXNnv2Hzc0SuJR-mvRpGz8-FU1G/s400/TNY_NOV_eh.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670792012942005762" /></a><b>Elizabeth Hoover</b> is a poet, critic, journalist, and, most importantly, a native of Pittsburgh. She has contributed poetry reviews and author interviews to such publications as <i>The Paris Review</i>, <i>The Los Angeles Times</i>, and <i>The Dallas Morning News</i>. Her poetry has appeared in <i>Poetry Northwest</i>, <i>Hayden’s Ferry Review</i>, <i>Natural Bridge</i>, and <i>The Café Review</i>, among others. In 2011, she was a Flight School Fellow, resident at the Virginia Colony of the Creative Arts, and a nominee for Sundress Publications Best of the Net award. She received a combined MFA/MA from Indiana University and is currently working on a biographies of Suzanne Collins and Robert Hayden. You can see more of her work at <a href="http://www.ehooverink.com/poetry.html">www.ehooverink.com/poetry.html</a><br /><br /><div><br /><div><br /><div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5YK-uuVeUNaEvV3A1zdHseC6u60hwmfJkTIBzR0GGuVYy_13u5OTU6fLgyKtg0W9vM7lBeLumJxMuhRBGSwwOL8VJp44aoCDonGIhV6p8qMsFmFr-yro-bjSXGtWW4okNkopwR6u9xh7e/s1600/TNY_NOV_ms.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 124px; height: 166px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh5YK-uuVeUNaEvV3A1zdHseC6u60hwmfJkTIBzR0GGuVYy_13u5OTU6fLgyKtg0W9vM7lBeLumJxMuhRBGSwwOL8VJp44aoCDonGIhV6p8qMsFmFr-yro-bjSXGtWW4okNkopwR6u9xh7e/s400/TNY_NOV_ms.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5670792653491847634" /></a><b>Michelle Stoner</b>'s first book of poetry, <i>Flats and Riots</i>, was published in 2008 (CustomWords). Her poems have also appeared in <i>The Collared Peccary</i>, <i>The New Growth Arts Review</i>, <i>Weave Magazine</i>, <i>The Carlow Journal</i>, Pittsburgh's <i>City Paper</i> and <i>Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh’s Sunday Poetry and Reading Series Anthology</i>, among others. She is a sound engineer for Prosody, NPR-affiliate WESA fm’s weekly show featuring the work of national writers and holds an MFA in poetry from Carlow University.<br /></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-66120464356290698212011-10-06T13:08:00.008-04:002011-10-08T15:27:07.355-04:00TNY Presents October 20th: Capewell, Carroll, Mar, McIlroy<span style="font-weight: bold; ">When </span>- Thursday, October 20th<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Where</span> - ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Avenue, Pittsburgh<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Time </span>– 8:00 p.m.<br /><span style="font-weight: bold; ">Cover </span>- $5 or free w/ contribution to potluck<div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzyzSX_pbsdd6FCpgJlLp1hXX5hbXuqHQSt6dBUayiD4nVhTyCzNzfwtVgACbZA4oXHblHx1kkwuuUpA3n3Yoas7IHqfoti7ZgueHJsLBWuyd9JX8azoZYA2H5866kdWrExgebphHX6Vlx/s1600/Leslie.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzyzSX_pbsdd6FCpgJlLp1hXX5hbXuqHQSt6dBUayiD4nVhTyCzNzfwtVgACbZA4oXHblHx1kkwuuUpA3n3Yoas7IHqfoti7ZgueHJsLBWuyd9JX8azoZYA2H5866kdWrExgebphHX6Vlx/s320/Leslie.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661203674651570050" /></a><b>Leslie Anne Mcilroy</b> won the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her full-length collection <i>Rare Space</i> and the 1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for her chapbook <i>Gravel</i>. She also took first place in the 1997 Chicago Literary Awards Competition judged by Gerald Stern. Her second full-length book, <i>Liquid Like This</i>, was published by Word Press in 2008. Leslie’s work appears in numerous journals including <i>American Poetry: The Next Generation</i>, <i>Dogwood</i>, <i>The Emily Dickinson Award Anthology</i>, <i>The Mississippi Review</i>, the <i>Nimrod International Journal of Prose & Poetry</i> and <i>Pearl</i>. Leslie works as a copywriter in Pittsburgh, PA, where she lives with her daughter Silas, and writer/guitarist, Don Bertschman, with whom she performs her poetry. For books and videos visit <a href="http://lamcilroy.com/">http://lamcilroy.com/</a><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDSfbFRui5Lk1O0p2J2UEZuJP_7o76_AJ8jfUSZNOVyPC88bP36A_ya8sxe-Ba3uYaDzVDLF5ql0nkYrjw3yJ3O7GdWtOPqk78-M0UezzXNYTajiEgGyfiGEPWyPnl6NtQph_tEBo6YZrV/s1600/TNY_Oct_ocean.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 150px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgDSfbFRui5Lk1O0p2J2UEZuJP_7o76_AJ8jfUSZNOVyPC88bP36A_ya8sxe-Ba3uYaDzVDLF5ql0nkYrjw3yJ3O7GdWtOPqk78-M0UezzXNYTajiEgGyfiGEPWyPnl6NtQph_tEBo6YZrV/s400/TNY_Oct_ocean.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660427406422558562" border="0" /></a><b> Ocean Capewell</b> just moved to Troy Hill from Lawrenceville. She just finished touring the midwest, via Megabus, with her writing. She works at the welfare office and enjoys the occasional kale smoothie.<br /><br /><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtxjmVPNkzdwV4Gaj8mVK7oP7LX4qXoZ3pFjh8vAX9Iy7eioB9c_BTg1gQ0s9H1o9jTqgIZ5PqWkJ4e7qBgaRJirfX7ONAv4vOE_IKQwHsOBHCt7Ui5sPft4ekIjALUO5F-e1TU2hLM7H4/s1600/KHET_MAR.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 213px; height: 320px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjtxjmVPNkzdwV4Gaj8mVK7oP7LX4qXoZ3pFjh8vAX9Iy7eioB9c_BTg1gQ0s9H1o9jTqgIZ5PqWkJ4e7qBgaRJirfX7ONAv4vOE_IKQwHsOBHCt7Ui5sPft4ekIjALUO5F-e1TU2hLM7H4/s320/KHET_MAR.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5661203670989518978" /></a><b>Khet Mar</b> is a journalist, novelist, fiction writer and essayist from Burma. Author of one novel, Wild Snowy Night, as well as several collections of short stories, essays and poems, her work has been translated into English and Japanese, broadcast on radio and made into a film. Khet Mar is an emeritus exiled writer-in-residence in City of Asylum/Pittsburgh. She has written the text and her husband, the visual artist Than Htay, created the new artwork on the façade of 324 Sampsonia Way.<br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp1bg4SXq5i-BemBgvOletpc0m0Tzuz8-U-KCz_FkEQbFuc5C6WaaBugK29sTja9J0JOLEPgdbi6RIj5SMjTwO6PhQKc_mHgUJNaCMDnJCODEuWoL2cTej1C2QgagwxWxXJt3V7709MwoG/s1600/TNY_OCT_Terry.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 96px; height: 96px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjp1bg4SXq5i-BemBgvOletpc0m0Tzuz8-U-KCz_FkEQbFuc5C6WaaBugK29sTja9J0JOLEPgdbi6RIj5SMjTwO6PhQKc_mHgUJNaCMDnJCODEuWoL2cTej1C2QgagwxWxXJt3V7709MwoG/s400/TNY_OCT_Terry.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660427498212597074" border="0" /></a><b> Terrence Michael Carroll</b> has been making music in Pittsburgh under the name Tee Glitter for the better part of two shitty decades. As long as he brings his notebook, he is a real artist. Thats what someone said once anyway. He's been working on two books, "Chasing the Ghost" and "What World Do You Live In?", for several years. "Underground Economy", the newest album by his band Dirty Faces, will probably be out before either book. He also performs in the bands Raw Blow and White Ghetto (formerly White Guilt). He spends his days working construction and hating his life<br /><br /></div></div></div>Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3379326898404172997.post-90012602874376106512011-10-06T12:39:00.001-04:002011-10-06T12:41:37.510-04:00The Next TNY is October 20!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoQu4-HDxjE6JZiMdUgwROCBtXm2jYNKU1IUyvCiDUskdv7x-G4UkU9QP4dPeSQ-xku4u_5RFQbVtA86otgbxNttSDxxPnUR8cH4S3D-cMy1RpAtIwzOgt8ImGsV7NHGhqRJk0G4TKgYd/s1600/TNY_OCT.jpg"><img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 237px; height: 400px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEigoQu4-HDxjE6JZiMdUgwROCBtXm2jYNKU1IUyvCiDUskdv7x-G4UkU9QP4dPeSQ-xku4u_5RFQbVtA86otgbxNttSDxxPnUR8cH4S3D-cMy1RpAtIwzOgt8ImGsV7NHGhqRJk0G4TKgYd/s400/TNY_OCT.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5660420023666579314" border="0" /></a>Karen Lillishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04624398526912042847noreply@blogger.com