11/19 The New Yinzer Presents @ ModernFormations

THIS THURSDAY…

Please join us at ModernFormations Gallery on Thursday, 11/19, for the last TNY Presents reading held at MoFo. The readers will be Morgan Eldridge, Danielle Gagliano, Nathan Kukulski, Kinsley Stocum, and Richard Wehrenberg

As always, admission is $5 or free with pot luck contribution. Proudly sponsored by Mellingers Beer Distributor. BYOB encouraged.

When: Thursday, November 19th, 8pm
Where: ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Ave. (in Garfield)

Also, pre-game drinks at Lou’s Little Corner Bar at 6:30!

 

The New Yinzer & Poems for Jerry

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.

5/21 TNY Presents @ ModernFormations

TOMORROW…

Two local comics artists help close out the season for the TNY Presents reading series. One of them is Daniel McCloskey, known for founding the Cyberpunk Apocalypse writers’ residency, but a prolific artist and writer in his own right. He’ll present the fifth installment in his original series America’s Lesser Known Predators, each written specifically for a local reading event. McCloskey is joined at ModernFormations Gallery by comics artist Nils Balls and writers Caitlin Bender and Adrienne Jouver. BO 8 p.m. 4919 Penn Ave., Garfield. $5 (free with potluck contribution). www.modernformations.com

http://www.pghcitypaper.com/pittsburgh/short-list-may-20-26/Content?oid=1826978

 

2/19 TNY Presents @ ModernFormations

TONIGHT at 8PM…

Dear Friends,

Please join us at ModernFormations Gallery tonight, for the first 2015 installment of our TNY Presents reading series. This month features Rich Gegick, Karen Lillis, Erin Oh, Jude Vachon, and special guest Andy Hoffman.

 

As always, admission is $5 or free with pot luck contribution. Proudly sponsored by Mellingers Beer Distributor. BYOB encouraged.

When: Tonight (Thursday, February 19th), 8pm
Where: Modern Formations, 4919 Penn Ave. (in Garfield)

https://www.facebook.com/events/436493913186616/440062469496427

Also, pre-game drinks at Lou’s Little Corner Bar at 6:30!

ABOUT THE READERS:

 

Richard L. Gegick is from Trafford. He writes and waits tables for a living.

 

Karen Lillis was born in Washington, DC during the Vietnam War and has lived in Virginia, Texas, New York, Paris, and Pittsburgh. She is the author of four short novels, including “Watch the Doors As They Close” (Spuyten Duyvil, 2012) and “The Second Elizabeth” (Six Gallery Press, 2009). She was a writer in residence at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, a regular contributor to the anti-war/poetry newspaper New York Nights after 2001, and once wrote a short story on the side of a freight train. In 2014 her fiction was recognized with an Acker Award for Avant Garde Excellence. She runs Small Press Roulette, an indie bookselling service.

 

Erin Oh grew up in Pittsburgh and lived in Canada for eight years where she studied the sociology of education. She has worked as a union organizer, researcher, video instructor, and workshop facilitator. Erin is currently interested in growing community around feminist, anti-racist parenting. Her favorite books are “Just Kids” and “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.”

 

Jude Vachon lives in Pittsburgh with a pack that includes a beagle and a cat. She works as a librarian, which unfortunately does not mean that she sits around and reads all day.

 

Andy Hoffman knew from an early age he’d make a lousy woman. Every time he looked at himself, he thought, “I hope I never produce a bunch of estrogen.” One Summer, he dropped everything and drove to Alaska to work in a fish cannery. He’s lived in Pittsburgh far too long and works as a web developer at IBM.

Hope to see you there!

The New Yinzer

11/20 The New Yinzer Presents @ Modern Formations

THIS THURSDAY…

Please join us at ModernFormations Gallery on Thursday 11/20, for the last 2014 installment of our TNY Presents reading series. This month features Christina Ailor, Caitlin Crawford, Scott Silsbe, Stefanie Wielkopolan, Laura Zurowski

As always, admission is $5 or free with pot luck contribution. Proudly sponsored by Mellingers Beer Distributor. BYOB encouraged. When: Thursday, November 20th, 8pm
Where: ModernFormations, 4919 Penn Ave. (in Garfield)Also, pre-game drinks at Lou’s Little Corner Bar at 6:30!

ABOUT THE READERS:

Christina Ailor lives in Carnegie with her roommate’s cat. She is a member of the Hour After Happy Hour Writing Workshop and an editor of the After Happy Hour Review. She writes future speculation fiction, love poems to television series, and is currently working on a web series about long distance relationships.Her favorite use of her political science degree is to write letters of complaint to elected and appointed officials.

Caitlin Crawford is the proprietor of Belleville, an arts and performance space in Wilkinsburg. There she lives with Steve and Lucifer, her two cats, and ample amounts of whiskey. She spends most of her time dancing with an amazing group of smart, talented and gorgeous friends, who help keep her feet on the ground.

Scott Silsbe was born in Detroit. He now lives in Pittsburgh, where he sells books, makes music with friends, and writes. His poems have recently appeared in Nerve Cowboy, Words Dance, the Cultural Weekly, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Six Gallery Press published his book Unattended Fire in 2012 and Low Ghost published The River Underneath the City in 2013.

Stefanie Wielkopolan is a Michigan poet that keeps moving back to Pittsburgh. Up until the age of eight, she spent every Saturday watching cartoons at a bowling alley bar. She credits this experience for her love of a good dive bar, people watching, and writing poetry. Her first collection of poetry, “Border Theory,” was published by Black Coffee Press in 2011. She currently teaches students ages 2-82 in the Pittsburgh region.

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Laura Zurowski of Lovelorn Poets. Lovelorn Poets celebrates the beauty of written language found on missed connections websites all over the country – love letters, missives of regret, poems, and crazy rants. This literary blog strives to preserve and publish the best writing posted to Craigslist’s Missed Connections and curate an ever-growing collection of the passions, thoughts, and romantic encounters found there. Faceless, nameless (typically), and devoid of most context, these writers and their words are fleeting in nature and seen by few – until now.

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!

6/12 Startling Stories @ EEBX

THIS THURSDAY…

 

5/15 The New Yinzer Presents @ Modern Formations

THIS THURSDAY at 8PM,

Angele Ellis, Mike Knapps, John Korn & Kelly Scarff will close out the spring season.

4/17 The New Yinzer Presents @ Modern Formations

TOMORROW at 8PM, Jason Baldinger (whose new Six Gallery book The Lower Forty-Eight comes out in June), Stephanie Brea, Andrea Laurion & Bob Walicki will regale you with their words.

The New Yinzer, Fall 2013

has obviously been out for a while, but @6GPress has been behind on its electronic reading. Anyway, it’s awesome. Three Six Gallery authors have pieces in it –

“Motel Sunsets, Installment 3” by Jason Baldinger,

“Lost Yinzer: A Quitter’s Story” by John Grochalski,

& “James D. Van Trump and the Stones of Pittsburgh” by Scott Silsbe

– but by all means read all of it & look at all the art.

11/21 The New Yinzer Presents @ Modern Formations

Last one of the year is THIS THURSDAY:

Don’t miss out on our last reading of the 2013 season this Thursday, November 21, at Modern Formations. It’s going to be a fantastic finale! 

As always, admission is $5 or free with pot luck contribution. Proudly sponsored by Mellingers Beer Distributor. BYOB encouraged. 

 

When: Thursday, NOVEMBER 21

Where: Modern Formations, 4919 Penn Ave. (in Garfield) 

Time: 8PM

And now, a little bit about our stellar readers:

Raiona Gaydos 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.

Julie Ann Cook, of Rock Hill, SC, is a happily married, joyfully outnumbered mother of five boys, two who 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).

Kelcey Parker’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.

Paula Martinac is the author of three published novels, including the Lambda Literary Award-winning Out of Time, 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 atwww.paulamartinac.com.