VenueEast End Book Exchange 

Date08/30/2014 

Time8:00 PM - 12:00 AM  

Event TypeReading 

GenrePoetry 

SponsorJason Baldinger 

Cost $0.00
 

Description and Reader Names: Labor Day has come a long way from its roots in the aftermath of the Haymarket Riots, The Homestead Steel Strike, The Pullman Strike among many others. Today it's more about a day off, a picnic, the dread of going back to school or the crime of ended summer but not necessarily about words. Join us Saturday August 30 for four awesome readers who still know that work is meaningless without words and celebrate what it means to work in both prose and poetry.

this event is free and byob.

Also to give credit the image used above is from cartoonist Homer Davenport circa 1896.

bios to follow

Jason Baldinger has spent a life in odd jobs, if only poetry was the strangest of them he’d have far less to talk about. Somewhere in time he has traveled the country, and wrote a few books. The latest of which “The Lower 48” (Six Gallery Press) and the chapbook “The Studs Terkel Blues” (Night Ballet Press) are available now. A short litany of publishing credits include: The New Yinzer, Shatter Wig Press, Blast Furnace, B.E. Quarterly and Fuck Art, Let’s Dance as well as the new anthology 'Good Noise! - Poetry, Music & Pittsburgh'.. You can also hear audio of some poems on the bandcamp website by just typing in his name.

Stephanie Brea has slung coffee, wrote about inventions and worked for a company that built museum exhibits. This means she likes her espresso doubled, is most likely responsible for some of the products pitched on late night infomercials and can spell archaeopteryx without the need for spell check. She is a part-time copy editor and facilitates creative writing workshops for local schools and organizations. Her work has been published in Pear Noir!, The Legendary, Nerve Cowboy and the Pittsburgh City Paper.

Adam Matcho is an obituary writer who has worked in gas stations, fast food joints, at an invention company and as a sandwich artist. His chapbook, Six Dollars an Hour: Confessions of a Gemini Writer, was published by Liquid Paper Press and his collection, The Novelty Essays, was published by WPA Press. He is also the self-proclaimed poet laureate of Johnstown.
Dave Newman is the author of the novels Two Small Birds (Writers Tribe Books, 2014), Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children (Writers Tribe Books, 2012) and Please Don’t Shoot Anyone Tonight (World Parade Books, 2010), and the collection, The Slaughterhouse Poems (White Gorilla Press, 2013), named one of the Best Books of 2013 by L Magazine.

He’s worked as a truck driver, a book store manager, an air filter salesman, a house painter, and a college teacher. More than 100 of his poems and stories have appeared in magazines throughout the world, including Gulf Stream, Word Riot, Smokelong Quarterly, Rattle, Wormwood Review, Tears in the Fence (UK), and The New Yinzer. He has been the featured writer and on the cover of both 5AM and Chiron Review. Anthologies include Beside the City of Angels (World Parade Books) and The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Autumn House Press).

Newman has won three chapbooks prizes. In 2004, he received the Andre Dubus Novella Award.

He lives in Trafford, Pennsylvania with his wife, the writer Lori Jakiela, and their two children.

Primary Contact PersonJason Baldinger 

Primary Contact Emailunderwaterculprit@hotmail.com 

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Is this an open mic event? No 

Is this a book signing? No 

Will author's books be for sale? Yes 

Address 14754 Liberty Avenue 

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CityPittsburgh 

StatePA 

Zip15224 

Days/Hours of Operation Tue - Sat: 11:00 am - 7:00 pm Sun: 10:00 am - 4:00 pm  

Primary Contact PersonLesley Rains 

Primary Contact Emaileastendbookexchange@gmail.com 

Telephone(412) 224-2847 

Websitehttp://eastendbookexchange.com/ 

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Short bio: In another dimension Jason Baldinger is a labor activist who catalogs species of bats. He has a split book of poetry coming in early winter 2011 with Jerome Crooks on Six Gallery Press.