Kerouac Fest!

















More to come, including more improv audience participation poetry games and poetry by Gary Snyder!


Check us out at http://www.typewritergirls.net

7:00pm at Your Inner Vagabond!  Be there!



After the (amazing) scantily clad, mildly orgiastic debacle that was The TypewriterGirls Try Drag, the ladies have decided to turn over a new leaf and begin an epic battle in the name of social justice. Join them in their quest to unionize the Greater Pittsburgh bohemian community–streetwalkers, poets, bicyclists, tarot card readers, amateur astrologers, and the like–while revolutionizing Pittsburgh’s concept of “employed.”

Supported by the AFL-CIO, The TypewriterGirls have rounded up an all-star team of Grass Roots Community Organizers to aid them in their cause.

Featured Miscellany:

Escape Artistry by Dave Doyle (aka Pester the Jester) — Magician, Fire Breather, Stilt Walker, Stage Combatant, Children’s Entertainer and Chain Mail Tinkerer.

Music by Between Liberties — a progressive acoustic musical experiment

Punk Rock Burlesque by Shrimp Scanty — Smallest member of The Bridge City Bombshells (Pittsburgh’s only alternative burlesque troupe).

Dance Party by DJ Randy Spinster

Featured Poets:
Renee Alberts – Renee Alberts lives on a mountain in Pittsburgh with her partner and two cats, Fellini and Pushpaw. From there, she listens to rivers and shortwave and translates the conversations into poetry, sound and collage. She is the author of the recently published No Water (Speed and Brisco, 2009). She collaborates across mediums with some fine wordsmiths, musician, and dancers has organized numerous poetry and music events, including the Sunday Poetry & Reading Series.

Adam Atkinson – Adam Atkinson was born in 1983 and grew up in Arnold, Pennsylvania. This winter, he will be a resident at the Ventspils House for Writing and Translation in Latvia. Currently, he is the Co-Director of Open Thread, a Pittsburgh-based arts organization, where he also coordinates SPF, the upcoming small press festival in Pittsburgh, and serves as Literary Editor of all publications. He has taught writing and literature at the Lincoln Park Performing Arts Charter and the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. His poems have appeared in Bat City Review and Encyclopedia Destructica.

Mary Biddinger- Mary is the author of Prairie Fever (Steel Toe Books, 2007), and the Editor of the Akron Series in Poetry. She also serves on the Open Competition Editorial Committee for the Cleveland State University Poetry Center. In 2007 she founded the independent literary magazine Barn Owl Review. Her work has recently appeared or is forthcoming in 32 Poems, Fifth Wednesday Journal, Gulf Coast, The Laurel Review, Memorious, Ninth Letter, North American Review, /nor, Third Coast, and many other journals.

Jay Robinson- Jay Robinson teaches English Composition at the University of Akron. He’s Co-Editor-in-Chief / Reviews Editor of Barn Owl Review. His poems have appeared in Anti, Mars Hill Review, Plainsongs, Softblow, Tar River Poetry, Weave. Prose has been published in Agni and Poetry.

Current Mood: excited

hooks_and_books just put up a review of the current issue of Goblin Fruit and gave my poem Kalypso the kind of review that this poet had previously only daydreamed people might give her poetry.  I am very flattered and very grateful.

I also was asked to be on a panel at next year's AWP conference, which is a pretty awesome honor. If the panel is approved I'll be talking about the submission process, submitting tips, and my journal's idiosyncrasies.  It's a great opportunity for me and for my journal, Weave. It will really get the word out about us and give me a bit more of a chance to get my name out there, too.  The only down side is that next year's AWP will be held in Denver. Quite a hike, but worth it if this panel ges approved.

Laura and I will be picking up the second issue of Weave from the printer today.  Lots of time in the car this weekend -- yesterday I drove out to Indiana PA to help my friend Crystal with a presentation for one of her final classes for her Master's.  Then today it's out to Butler PA from Pittsburgh for the journals, then tomorrow I'm headed to Windber for DraculaCon.  Now, I'm not huge into Dracula, per say, but it's being held by an friend of mine who I haven't seen in a while, and really, who doesn't want to hang out with ghost hunters and psychics at a creepy hotel? Well, probably Laura doesn't.

Weave's issue 02 release party will also be this weekend at 6pm at Your Inner Vagabond Coffee House and World Lounge in Lawrenceville.  If you're in the area you should stop by -- there will be some amazing readings.  We have people coming in from Akron and from Philadelphia for the event!

I was really down over the past week, but I think I'm starting to pick up. 

Now, I should be working -- or at least writing.

Current Mood: excited

And I have the pleasure of being in it!

http://www.goblinfruit.net

There's lots of juicy delectables in there -- be sure to take a look.

This issue, as with all issues of Goblin Fruit, features readings of many of the poems, including mine, Kalypso. They're always worth a listen. It's great to find a journal that does this for the reader and the writer -- for the reader because it adds another dimension to the poem, and for the writer for the same reason, and because it gets your voice out there, too, reading your work.

The layout for this issue is absolutely gorgeous, again, as seems to be the case with every issue, but I am particularly take with it this time around.

This is definitely a journal I will submit to again. Amal and Jessica clearly put a lot of time and love into Goblin Fruit.

< /gushing >

Current Mood: happy

The first issue of Weave is officially for sale at: www.weavemagazine.net!

You know you want to buy a copy!

Current Mood: excited

Weave Magazine is pleased to invite you to an evening of poetry and music to celebrate the release of our inaugural issue hosted by Your Inner Vagabond Coffeehouse & World Lounge on November 9th, 2008 beginning at 5:00pm.

The event should be a splendid evening (especially if YOU are there!) and will include poetry readings from the first issue, silent auction, musical performance by Between Liberties, and the sale of works by local artists. The event is free and open to the public.

The first issue of Weave Magazine will also be for sale.

Sunday November 9
Begins 5pm / Free
Your Inner Vagabond Coffeehouse & World Lounge
4130 Butler St. @ 42nd, Lawrenceville,
Pittsburgh, PA 15201 / 412-683-1623



***If you want to donate time or a case of beer to the cause, drop us a line: weavezine@gmail.com***

A cappella Zoo is a journal that works with "magical realism and work that experiments with technique, form, language, and thought." They published my poem Dig in their first issue, which has just been released, as well as poetry by Weave contributor J.R. Pearson.

Check it out here!

Current Mood: excited

Jayne Pupek wrote a lovely book and I got to review it!

Check it out!

Just what the title says.

Two poems got picked up in the past 3 days; "Kalypso Speaks" has taken up shop in Burning River and "Kalypso" gets to rub elbows with the amazing fantasy poetry of Goblin Fruit.

I'm bracing myself for the slough of rejections that will more than likely follow seeing as I just had a run of three poems accepted in the space of about a month and a half. I think there is one editor in particular who may strangle me after I send her my second withdrawal in the space of two days.

The Ligionier Writer's Conference was also fun times. Laura and I got to meet some spiffy people and Damian Dressick has agreed to be one of our references for the Sprout Fund Seed Award application!

Yay yay yay! Excitement excitement excitement!