On Sunday, October 16th Hyacinth Girl Press will host the first of what is to become the 2 by 4 Reading Series.
2 by 4 seeks to bring reading into a collaborative space, to bring 4 sets of 2 writers together to create 15-20 minute reading sets where the artists work on writing, reading, and performance as partners. Hyacinth Girl Press editor Margaret Bashaar selects 4 readers, and then each of those readers selects their other half. The audience will also be brought into the collaborative artistic process throughout the evening.
Sunday, October 16th, 2011 at ModernFormations 6pm – 8pm
Deena November graduated SUNY Binghamton in 2005 with a BA in Creative Writing, Poetry and received her MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from Carlow University. In 2005, she co-edited the anthology I JUST HOPE IT’S LETHAL: Poems of Sadness, Madness, and Joy for Houghton Mifflin. Her poems have also appeared in Pittsburgh City Paper, Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Shaking Like a Mountain, Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review, Voices in the Attic, and Keyhole Magazine. She has taught Poetry and Creative Writing Workshops at Seton Hill University. Currently, she teaches at Carlow University and Robert Morris University in the English and Women’s Studies departments. She co-created Girls with Glasses Reading Series, Workshops, and Literary Journal. Deena lives in Pittsburgh with her husband and dog.
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Renée Alberts’ poetry and visual art have appeared in print, dance performances, live radio shows and at least one tattoo. She is author of the poetry collection No Water and editor of Natural Language: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Sunday Poetry & Reading Series Anthology, a collection of writers featured in the series she founded and curates. She guest hosts 90.5 FM’s Prosody and moderates the Pittsburgh Literary Calendar. She posts writing, photography and collage, including her Detail a Day Project, at animalprayer.com.
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Jason Baldinger has been writing for over twenty years, he just recently got around to performing it publicly. He’s been published in The New Yinzer and has a split book of poetry with Jerome Crooks available now from Six Gallery Press. You can catch his bands House of Assassins and the Skirt Tasters at irregular intervals around Pittsburgh.
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Jerome Crooks began writing poetry 20 years ago this September. “i’ve been a mess and i feel fine” (Speed and Briscoe) was released in 2001. “The Whiskey Rebellion” (Six Gallery Press) with Jason Baldinger, was released this year to be followed by “The Moment I Feared” (Low Ghost Press). Jerome has served as the active head of the Speed and Briscoe writer’s collective since its inception in 1998. His work has appeared in the City Paper, Natural Language, The New Yinzer, and Open Thread’s regional review. His journalism has appeared in Magazino and Islas. He is the son of Mary Anne and Jerry Crooks, brother to Theresa, brother in law to John Leonard, and proud uncle of young Aeden.
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Wayne Wise is a writer, artist, seeker, shaman and magician, or at least claims to be in casual conversation. He has degrees in History and Clinical Psychology. He is a freelance writer of book and comics. His novels include King of Summer, Scratch, This Creature Fair, and Bedivere: The King’s Right Hand available as ebooks. He teaches Comics and Pop Culture as a guest lecturer at Chatham University. You can read his blog at www.wayne-wise.com
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Marcel Lamont Walker is a native Pittsburgh writer/artist, photographer, Art Institute of Pittsburgh graduate and former comic-book art instructor at the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. He currently combines love for the Steel City and for super-heroes with his self published comic-book HERO CORP., INTERNATIONAL, which posits the Capitol of Champions as the headquarters of a multi-national meta-agent corporation.
Marcel also has exhibited his photography locally, (most recently at NEW AMSTERDAM in Lawrenceville), and provided commissioned graphic design services for other creative Pittsburghers, including cover art/design for Wayne Wise’s novels SCRATCH and THIS CREATURE FAIR, and promotional materials for ELECTROBELLY DANCE TROUPE. www.marcelwalker.com www.HeroCorp.biz
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Juliet Cook’s poetry has appeared within Action Yes, Barn Owl Review, Columbia Poetry Review, Diagram, Diode and many more print and online entities. She is the editor/publisher of Blood Pudding Press (print) and Thirteen Myna Birds (online). Juliet’s first full-length poetry book, ‘Horrific Confection’ was published by BlazeVOX. She also has oodles of published poetry chapbooks, most recently including FONDANT PIG ANGST (Slash Pine Press), Tongue Like a Stinger (Wheelhouse), POST-STROKE (Blood Pudding Press for Dusie Kollektiv 5) and Thirteen Designer Vaginas, from the new Hyacinth Girl Press.To find out more, please free to visit www.JulietCook.weebly.com.
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Margaret Bashaar‘s most recent chapbook, Letters From Room 27 of the Grand Midway Hotel, was released by Blood Pudding Press in the summer of 2011. Her poetry has also appeared in journals such as New South, The Pedestal Magazine, Goblin Fruit, Caketrain, and others. She edits the chapbook micro press Hyacinth Girl Press, and will be an artist in residence later this year at Petrified Forest National Park. Every so often she blogs at pluckedfromogygia.blogspot.com. She lives in Pittsburgh with her husband, her son, and far too many typewriters, which she firmly believes are haunted.
