The New Yinzer is back with a new issue, featuring contributions by Six Gallery scribblers Jason Baldinger, Angele Ellis, John Grochalski, Chuck Kinder, Scott Silsbe, & Don Wentworth. Check it all out here.
Also, a new anthological tribute to Gerald Stern, edited by Caliban Books’ John Schulman, just dropped.
Stern will be in town NEXT TUESDAY as part of the Pittsburgh Arts & Lectures Series. Shit is FREE but you are supposed to register.
TOMORROW @ 8PM…
3911 Forbes Avenue, Oakland (in the back room)
Jimmy Cvetic hosts. Open mic after most readings as time permits.
Celebrating Caliban Book Shop & Low Ghost Press
with Jason Baldinger, M. Callen, Kristofer Collins
Bob Pajich, John Schulman & Daniel M. Shapiro
Jason Baldinger has spent a life in odd jobs, if only poetry was the strangest of them he’d have far less to talk about. Somewhere in time, he traveled the country, and wrote a few books, the latest of which are “The Lower 48” on Six Gallery Press and “The Studs Terkel Blues” on Night Ballet Press. A short litany of publishing credits include The New Yinzer, Shatter Wig Press, Blast Furnace and you can also hear audio of some poems at http://jasonbaldinger.bandcamp.com/.
M. Callen is a multidisciplinary artist and poet from Pittsburgh, PA. Her work has appeared in Fence, Gigantic, The Atlas Review, The New Guard, and other fine publications. She is the recipient of fellowships from the Atlantic Center for the Arts and the Bucknell Seminar for Younger Poets. You can find her online at m-callen.com
Kristofer Collins is the Books Editor at Pittsburgh Magazine. He runs Low Ghost Press. He also owns Desolation Row Records and manages Caliban Bookshop in Oakland. His most recent chapbook is “Last Call” published by Speed & Briscoe in 2010.
Bob Pajich is a writer and musician from the Burgh. His latest book, The Trolleyman, was published by Stanton Heights’ Low Ghost Press. He is a Taurus.
John Schulman is the co-owner of Caliban Book Shop in Oakland.
Daniel M. Shapiro is a special education teacher in the Woodland Hills School District. His first full-length collection of poems, How the Potato Chip Was Invented, was published by sunnyoutside press in December 2013. He is also the author of two chapbooks and a collection of collaborations with Jessy Randall. His poems have appeared in such journals as Sentence, Gargoyle, Rhino, Ping Pong, Barge, and Word Riot.
Consult the hand for more details.
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