5/26 The Scott Silsbe Variety Show @ Coffee Buddha

SATURDAY…

Readings by:
Kristofer Collins
Don Wentworth
Meghan Tutolo
Bart Solarczyk
Lori Jakiela
Bob Pajich

Music by:
Mark Mangini
Samoan Cats

Sat. May 26th, 8pm

$5 cover charge, BYOB

Coffee Buddha
964 Perry Hwy. (15237)

11/21 Bill Fox, Pond Hockey, & Smoking Tombs @ Brillobox

TUESDAY…

Bill Fox is coming to Pittsburgh! Bill Fox fronted the legendary Cleveland band The Mice and has also released several excellent solo albums, including 1996’s ‘Shelter from the Smoke.’ Fellow Clevelanders Smoking Tombs are along for the ride and rounding out the night will be local weirdos Pond Hockey.
9pm, 21+, $5 cover

Reminder that Pond Hockey consists of literary luminaries Jason Baldinger, Mark Mangini, Bob Pajich, & Scott Silsbe, & that they fucking rock. Promotional imagery by the great Paulette Poullet.

6/20 Amoeba Knievel, Pond Hockey, & Robin Vote @ the BBT

THIS SATURDAY…

Pond Hockey of course features local litterateurs Jason Baldinger, Mark Mangini, Bob Pajich, & Scott Silsbe. These guys don’t just scribble… they also rock!

7/29 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series Season Finale

TONIGHT…

The 2014 Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series
3911 Forbes Avenue (back room)  Jimmy Cvetic hosts.  Open mic as time permits.

Tues, July 29 – Grand Finale- Celebrating The New Yinzer  – Be there!

Introductions by Scott Silsbe- Managing Editor of TNY
Our featured readers will be:

 

Holly Coleman    Kurt Garrison    Mike Good    Taylor Grieshober

    Mark Mangini       Don Wentworth  &  Carolyne Whelan

 

Holly Coleman is a legit yinzer who lives on Troy Hill. She MCs and co-manages the TNY Presents Reading Series and sporadically publishes Pittsburgh-based writings.

 

Kurt Garrison is a musician, writer, and photographer who resides in the Troy Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh. When he’s not serving as a data analyst for tech start-up Shoefitr, KG plays in soul group Moldies & Monsters and lo-fi minimalists The Plat Maps. A former contributor to The New Yinzer, he currently writes for Pittsburgh Magazine.

 

Mike Good writes from his apartment in Bloomfield and is from Plum, PA originally. He co-founded the Hour After Happy Hour Writing Workshop, and the After Happy Hour Review journal and reading series. Professionally, he works for Allegheny Land Trust, an environmental nonprofit focusing on land conservation in Allegheny County.

 

Taylor Grieshober is a writer living in Wilkinsburg, and a waitress to the stars. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Monkeybicycle, Voices from the Attic, The New Yinzer, and Weave. She is also co-director of TNY Presents.

 

Mark Mangini is a visual artist and musician who also curates the TiNY art section of The New Yinzer.

Don Wentworth writes poetry in the short form and has had work published in bear creek haiku, Rolling Stone, Modern Haiku, bottle rockets, The New Yinzer, Cotyledon, Encyclopedia  Destructica, and the anthologies Prairie Smoke and To Life.  His first full-length volume, Past All Traps, was published by Six Gallery Press in 2011.

 

Carolyne Whelan received her MFA in poetry and nonfiction at Chatham University in 2009. Her first chapbook, The Glossary of Tania Aebi, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2011. Her second chapbook, Chain Down the Moon, and her full length manuscript, Roadside Fires Burning, have both been finalists in national chapbook and first book publishing competitions, respectively. Recent work has appeared or is forthcoming in a number of journals, including Blue Heron and Sugar House. She lives in Four Mile Run.

Listen to the past Hemingway’s readings at www.hemingwayspoetryseries.blogspot.com

The 2014 poetry series readings will be up soon!  Thanks, everyone for a great season!