Gist Street January 2009

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Hello Gist Street!

As 2008 winds down, I'm anticipating many good things in 2009. One is a bunch of stellar Gist Street readings. We are so pleased with our upcomingschedule we can't wait, and we hope you can't wait either.

On Friday, January 9, 2009 we usher in Horacio Castellanos Moya (fiction) and Paula Bohince (poetry). Join us. BYOB. Bring festive snacks. Bring afriend. BYOB.

Doors open at 7:15. Readings begin at 8pm. $5 will get you in and into the raffle where there may be some ingenious regifting along with books and your own tiny pie.

I'll be making said pie along with a couple big ones for the masses. Antoine will bring in the ice cream. Bob is our new "meat guy." And I hear thatJohn (along with drawing) has been making some mean spinach pies...

That's James Simon's Sculpture Studio, 305 Gist Street, Uptown, Pittsburgh. For bios and directions: www.giststreet.org Gist Street is proud to be supported by you, the Creativity Project, and Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PA Partners), the regional arts fundingpartnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania's General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PA Partners is administered in Allegheny County by the GreaterPittsburgh Arts Council.

-- Gist Street Reading Series 305 Gist Street, Pittsburgh, PA

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Gist St Reading, Poet Miriam Levine Nov 7 2008

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Hello Gist Street,

Fall is here. There's soup on the stove, a pumpkin on the front porch, and a sweater on the dog. It's time to take a break from looking at all those leaves and head on over to James Simon's Sculpture Studio on Friday, November 7th. We're featuring the amazing poet Miriam Levine and the fantastic fiction writer Ellen Litman.

Doors open at 7:15; readings begin at 8:00. It's $5. There's a raffle, where you might win books (which will also be for sale), eggs, a drawing by John Fleenor, or rumor has it there might be something "knitted."

BYOB. BYOB. Also, if you have any extra Halloween candy sitting around. We can certainly clean that up for you. Post-election celebratory enthusiasm?We'll take that as well.

That's 305 Gist Street, Uptown, 3rd floor. http://www.giststreet.org/ for bios and directions. Gist Street is also now a "group" on Facebook. If you know what that means, you know what to do.

Hope to see you there!

Sherrie

Also:

Announcing the Gist Street 2009 schedule!

January 9 Horacio Castellanos Moya (fiction) ; Paula Bohince (poetry)

February 6 Allison Amend (fiction) ; Jeffrey McDaniel (poetry)

March 6 L.E. Leone (fiction) ; Peter Oresick (poetry)

April 3 Joseph Bathanti (fiction) ; Pat Rosal (poetry)

May 1 Ron Maclean (fiction) ; Sandra Beasley (poetry)

June 5 Salvatore Scibona (fiction) ; Hadara Bar-Nadav (poetry)

July 18 – 9th annual cookout extravaganza featuring Autumn House Press

August – Gist Street takes a break!

September 12 Charlie Leerhsen (non-fiction) ; Julia Kasdorf (poetry)

October 2 Irina Reyn (fiction) ; Kristin Naca (poetry)

November 6 Pia Z. Ehrhardt (fiction) ; Atsuro Riley (poetry)

December 4 Emily Mitchell (fiction) ; Mathias Svalina (poetry)

Gist Street is supported by the Creativity Project and by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PA Partners), the regional arts funding partnership ofthe Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania's General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PA Partners is administered in Allegheny County by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council. Please let your legislators know how much you appreciate their support of the arts!

-- Gist Street Reading Series 305 Gist Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15219

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Wood Fired Words: Braddock Community Bread Oven and Gist Street Reading October 4 2008

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Please come join us for a collaboration between the community of Braddock and the Gist Street Reading Series Wood-Fired Words: Braddock, PA

Grand Opening of the Braddock Community Bread Oven and Gist Street Reading

The Unsmoke Systems Compound 1137 Braddock Ave. Braddock, PA 15104

Directly across from the USS offices

A collaboration between the community of Braddock and the Gist Street Reading Series, Wood-Fired Words features 4 fiction writers, a poet, and a brand new Community Bread Oven. On Saturday, October 4th (The day after Gist Street’s reading featuring Jan Beatty and Amy Knox Brown on Friday, October 3rd), Gist Street will take to the road (on Penn Avenue through Wilkinsburg to Ardmore Blvd to Braddock Avenue – Mayor John Fetterman warns to NOT take the Rankin Bridge to Braddock for this event. There is construction and Fright-Night at Kennywood.) A link to Google-map directions is at http://www.giststreet.org/ (on the home page).

Gist Street is hosting a reading at 1137 Braddock Ave. in the shadow of the region’s last operating steel mill, which serves to christen Braddock’s new bread oven. John McNally, Amy Knox Brown, Sherrie Flick, and Nancy Krygowski will read for 10 minutes each. Bios follow. It’s $2 at the door, which gets audience members literature read aloud along with free hand-made, wood-fired bread and pizzas. Doors open at 7pm; readings begin at 8pm. It’s BYOB.

Last month Gist Street hit the North Side for Writers in the Gardens; this month they hit Braddock for Wood-Fired Words. The Wood-fired Oven was built by a North Braddock mason using over 75% salvaged and reclaimed materials. Braddock's Community Bread Oven will be churning out free hand-made, wood-fired pizzas topped with ingredients grown organically on Braddock Farms and artisan breads crafted by Braddock’s own Josh Tonies.

This event is made possible by and special thanks to Gist Street Reading Series, Mayor John Fetterman, Joe Bonifate Masonry, and Ray Werner. Come listen and eat. BIOS:John McNally is author of two novels, The Book of Ralph and America’s Report Card, and two story collections, Troublemaker and Ghosts of Chicago. He’s also edited six anthologies, most recently Who Can Save Us Now?: Brand-New Superheroes and Their Amazing (Short) Stories, co-edited with Owen King. A finalist for the National Magazine Award, John has published short stories in over sixty magazines, including Virginia Quarterly Review, Open City, and The Sun, and he’s a frequent book reviewer for the Washington Post. A native of Burbank, Illinois, John now lives and works in North Carolina.

Amy Knox Brown is a fourth-generation Nebraskan currently living in Winston-Salem, NC, where she is an assistant professor of creative writing and English at Salem College and director of the college’s creative writing major. Her collection of stories, Three Versions of the Truth, was published in September 2007. It was a finalist for the Shenandoah/Glasgow Prize for Emerging Writers. Amy is also the author of a poetry chapbook titled Advice from Household Gods.

Sherrie Flick is author of the award-winning flash fiction chapbook I Call This Flirting (Flume Press, 2004). Anthologies include two from Norton: New Sudden Fiction and Flash Fiction Forward. A recipient of a Pennsylvania Council on the Arts grant, she has had residencies at Ucross, Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She is co-founder and artistic director of the Gist Street Reading Series. Her novel Reconsidering Happiness will be published in Fall 2009.

Nancy Krygowski’s book of poems, Velocity, won the 2006 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize from the University of Pittsburgh Press. She’s received grants from the PA Council on the Arts and from the Pittsburgh Foundation, plus residencies at the Jentel Foundation and The Kimmel Nelson Harding Center for the Arts. She works as an adult literacy instructor and is co-founder and assistant artistic director of the Gist Street Reading Series.

This project was supported by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PA Partners), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania’s General Assembly and from the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PA Partners is administered in Allegheny County by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.

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Gist Street Readings Update

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Dear Gist Street,

Hello. It's time for us again. We're back into the swing of things. The chairs are upstairs, and fall is at our heels. We have two amazing writers foryou on Friday, October 3, 2008:

Pittsburgh's own Jan Beatty and in-from-North-Carolina Amy Knox Brown. They'll both be reading from their new poetry and fiction collections, respectively. Come on over. Doors open at 7:15; readings begin at 8pm.

James Simon's Sculpture Studio, 305 Gist Street - Uptown - Pittsburgh. 3rd floor. For bios and directions:www.giststreet.org.

$5 gets you in and into the raffle where there will be samplings from the garden's final harvests, books, a drawing by John Fleenor, and who knows,maybe a Simon-special Gist Street fish. Books will be for sale. I'm making some cookies and an apple pie. Antoine will have his ice cream, and you all will bring in some BYOB (and more snacks if you're soinspired)!

We hope to see you there, but if you're busy on Friday, come out to Braddock the next day on SATURDAY OCTOBER 4, 2008 and join Gist Street's awaygame: Wood-Fired Words: Braddock, PA.

Fiction writers John McNally, Amy Knox Brown, and Sherrie Flick will be joined by poet Nancy Krygowski to christen Braddock's new Community Bread Ovenwith four mini readings. Details, directions, and a photo of the bread oven are on the front page of our website. It's $2 to get in but that gets you 3 doses of fiction, 1 of poetry, and free pizza and bread. A deal. (If you're doing the math, you can get two straight nights of literature and interesting food for $7...)

Mayor John wants me to warn you NOT to take the Rankin Bridge to Braddock. There's construction and it's also Fright Night at Kennywood. So, instead,head on Penn through Wilkinsburg to Ardmore Blvd., to Braddock Avenue, which gets you to The Convent at St. Michael's (1137 Braddock Ave.) which is where you want to be. With us. Eating pizza. Listening to literature read aloud to you.
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Gist Street Reading Series Friday August 1, 2008

Dear Gist Street,

Already, it's time for another reading. We're still recovering from the cookout, but THIS Friday August 1, 2008 we have Rusty Barnes (fiction) and John Rybicki (poetry). www.giststreet.org for bios. It will be amazing.

James Simon's Sculpture Studio, 305 Gist Street-Uptown

Doors open at 7:15; readings begin at 8pm $5 at the door. There's a raffle with books, produce, and other unlikely stuff. We'll have the reading outside in the backyard if it's nice. BYOB. No grilling this month, but feel free to bring food. I'm making a plum pie and a blackberry tart. Hope to see you there!

Sherrie

This project was supported by Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts (PA Partners), the regional arts funding partnership of the Pennsylvania Council onthe Arts, a state agency. State government funding comes through an annual appropriation by Pennsylvania's General Assembly and from the NationalEndowment for the Arts, a federal agency. PA Partners is administered in Allegheny County by the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council.--

Gist Street Reading Series 305 Gist Street, Pittsburgh, PA
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Gist Street Reminder Saturday, July 19th 2008

Hello Gist Street,

Here is a quick reminder that the cookout is this Saturday, July 19th! We're featuring McSweeney's Press. 4 poets; 1 fiction writer.

It's a sampler. www.giststreet.org for bios, directions, and pod-snacks of past readers.

--Eating starts at 7pm. (Doors open at 6:30) Readings start at 8pm. --$5

--Please bring something to eat. BYOB.

--There will be books, produce, pesto, a Gist Street fish, a drawing by John Fleenor, and other surprises in the raffle.

--The latest issue of McSWEENEY'S as well as their anthology POETS PICKING POETS will be for sale. --breaking news is that we're (actually Helen) is making homemade lemonade. 305 Gist Street - Uptown - PittsburghJames Simon's Sculpture Studio - the back yard. If it rains, we lug everything inside except for the grill and the grillers. 412-489-0404 if you're lost.
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Gist Street Reading Series Back Sat July 19, 2008

From Gist Street Reading Series!

Hello Gist Street! It has been too long, I know. I'm here to give an advance warning signal. Yes, after six long months the reading series is about to start up again. Right now your job is to start thinking about what you're bringing to the cookout. We're featuring McSweeney's Press. Saturday, July 19th. Eating starts at 7pm. Readings start at 8pm. For those who are new to the cookout, it's a sampler of readings, about six readers reading for about 10 minutes each. Right now the McSweeney's poets are Atsuro Riley, Patrick Lawler, Courtney Queeney, and Gerry LaFemina. Bios are listed on our website. Fiction is coming very soon.
www.giststreet.org

It's also a sampling of food: a potluck. We have a big grill and (after 8 years) an experienced team of grillers. We'll have an assortment of sauces and marinades and herbs plucked from the garden to help with this task. Pasta salad? Cherry pie? Chocolate cake? Chicken? Whole salmon? Tofu burgers? Watermelon? Farro salad with red lentils, goat cheese, roasted onions, and peas in a citrus-parmesan vinegarette?(Well, that's actually what I'm bringing.) Start thinking. James Simon's Sculpture Studio, 305 Gist Street - Uptown. It's in the backyard. BYOB. $5. The raffle includes books, fresh produce, pesto, eggs from the chickens, a drawing by John Fleenor, and a Gist Street fish by our host James Simon.We hope you haven't forgotten about us. We have a great line up for 2008. More soon,
Sherrie-- Gist Street Reading Series 305 Gist Street, Pittsburgh, PA



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