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* Trolleyman Book ReleaseTrolleyman Book Release

Time: 8:00 pm

8pm/5 dollar cover/BYOB***Low Ghost Press is very proud to announce the publication of The Trolleyman by Bob Pajich! Join us as we celebrate with an evening of poetry featuring readings by Bob Pajich, Lori Jakiela, Scott Silsbe, and Dave Newman. ***Bios: Bob Pajich’s first book of poems, “Trolleyman,” was published in March by Low Ghost Press. His work has appeared in many literary magazines, including “The New Yinzer,” “Nerve Cowboy,” “Chiron Review” and elsewhere. His poetry chapbook, “Everyone, Exquisite,” received the Nerve Cowboy Chapbook Award. Pajich has worked as a community newspaper reporter in towns around Pittsburgh since 1999, and was managing editor and lead news writer for the world’s largest magazine dedicated to the game of poker: “Card Player.” He is a musician and a member of the bands Thee Shopkeepers and Monsters and Moldies. He also blogs about sports and all things Pittsburgh at www.theterriblefan.com. ***Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoir Miss New York Has Everything (Warner/Hatchette 2006) and three poetry chapbooks. Her latest collection of poetry, Spot the Terrorist was published by Turning Point in 2012. She was a flight attendant for Delta Air Lines for six years. She lives outside of Pittsburgh and teaches in the writing programs at The University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg and Chatham University. ***Scott Silsbe was born in Detroit. He now lives in Pittsburgh where he sells books, plays in bands, watches local sports, and edits The New Yinzer. His poetry collection The Unattended Fire will be published by Six Gallery Press in 2012. ***Dave Newman is the author of the novels Raymond Carver Will Not Raise Our Children (forthcoming from Writers Tribe Books in 2012) and Please Don’t Shoot Anyone Tonight (World Parade Books, 2010). He is also the author of four poetry chapbooks, most recently Allen Ginsberg Comes To Pittsburgh. 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, 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. His work has been published in anthologies, most recently in Beside the City of Angels (World Parade Books) and The Autumn House Anthology of Contemporary Poetry (Autumn House Press). 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.
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* Beans! Beans! Beans!Beans! Beans! Beans!

Time: 8:00 pm

Philadelphia's PuppeTyranny presents an original and exciting melodrama, a comedy of manners for a modern era long forgotten. Plus accompanying cabaret of salacious lounge singers and cross dressing troubadours. A Macabre tale, full of tom-foolery and folly. Two dueling dandies vie for social status as they throw an unexpectedly explosive party. Attended by a rag tag ensemble of guests that include unemployed falconers, aeronauts, avant-garde sand painters, a world famous chanteuse, and more. Three performers and two musicians blend animation, puppetry, music, irreverent cardboard abuse, dance and Lo-Fi shenanigans. Somewhere between Agatha Christie and Federico Fellini lies this satire of steam-punk, high society, and war. Some adult content and language. Joining us, as opening act and musical accompaniment, will be the insatiable and experimental lounge styling of Charmaine's Names. Original Songs developed in collaboration between PuppeTyranny and Rosie Langabeer (Composer for Philadelphia's Pig Iron Theater Company) PuppeTyranny is Philadelphia's premier purveyors of multimedia and object theater. A cross discipline collaboration of artists combine to create original and experimental works of theater and performance. PuppeTyranny seek to misguide and aggravate, as well as induce the shaking of the hips and the fists. Whimsy and Melancholy, marinated in craftiness and multimedia-ness, all in a soft shell taco. Beans! Beans! Beans! concludes a run of three new plays developed in 2011. The first, a farce exploring explorers, animals, and sandwiches, entitled BrotherSister + SisterBrother was performed as part of 70 Rupees to Paradise Road, a festival aboard the Tall ship Gazela. Then, as part of the 2011 Philly Fringe Festival, the sold out run of the microscopic adventure saga, Water Bears in Space, which, "may not be the strangest Fringe show I've ever seen, but it at least makes the top three." (Wendy Rosenfield, Philadelphia inquirer). PuppeTyranny can often be seen up and down the eastern seaboard, traveling with their World Famous Mouth Show, where they "stage a number of hilarious scenarios in a mouth". (Village Voice)
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* Literary EventLiterary Event

Time: 7:30 pm

Short Story Month reading: Local short story writers read from their works: Sherrie Flick, Jennifer Bannan, Anjali Sachdeva, Jennifer Howard and more! 5 DOLLAR COVER
     

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