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About the Gist Street Reading Series

The Gist Street Readings are held monthly and feature local and national poets and writers. The series focuses on emerging writers either publishing in national journals and magazines or publishing their first or second books. The readings are unpretentious and fun. More about the series.

Place: James Simon’s sculpture studio, 305 Gist Street, Uptown Pittsburgh. 3rd floor. Directions

Time: Socializing starts at 7:30pm. Doors open at 7:15. Readings begin around 8:00pm.

Bring and enjoy: BYOB. Homemade bread by Antoine. Chips. Raffle prizes. Much more.

Cost: $5

Questions? Contact us

 

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Thursday, 07 August 2008

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WRITERS-IN-THE-GARDENS

Saturday, September 13, 2008

 

 

 

 

 

The day after Gist Street head over to the North Side of Pittsburgh to hear six readers in six different private gardens.

Yona Harvey, Lois Williams, Nancy Krygowski, Sherrie Flick, Shauna Seliy, and Kazim Ali will read about "home." 

4-6pm

Limited to 50 people. Reservations required. Please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it for reservations.

In collaboration with City of Asylum Pittsburgh and right before their annual Jazz Poetry Festival. Make a day of it. Both events are FREE.

Photo: Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon reads in the North Side community gardens.

Copyright Chris Humphrey Photography, 2007.

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There will also be a six-week WRITING WORKSHOP coming up in October/November 2008

in conjunction with Silver Eye Center for Photography

It will focus on writing short-short fiction, and is hosted by Sherrie Flick. For more information about Point of View (supported by a Heinz Endowments Audience Experience Initiative grant) visit Silver Eye.

To sign up, call Sylvia Ehler: 412-431-1810

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New Pod-snack: Erin Flanagan
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Saturday, 15 March 2008
April's Pod-snack is now available: Erin Flanagan reading "Goldfish"
 
Announcements at the Gist Street Reading Series

For years now I have been telling my hipper-than-thou out-of-town friends that Pittsburgh is this stealth-city which is somehow under the National Radar Cool-Detector, & that it is actually the shining PARIS OF APPALACHIA. And now I can attest that if you want to discover the glittering romance of dark, rainy, lamp-lit Paris Avenue Left Bank cafe nights & the salon glamour of Gertrude & Alice rolled into one, just harken down to that Moveable Feast called the Gist Street Reading Series, where all the new Hemingways & Fitzgeralds & Zeldas & Joyces of today & tomorrow are polishing their shiny new legends.

—Chuck Kinder
Author of Honeymooners and Last Mountain Dancer

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