August 30, 2014
Note: This Labor Day Weekend event was curated by Jason Baldinger
and is not part of the Hemingway's Poetry Series. It is noteworthy for the
presence of three relatively new voices on the Pittsburgh
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 traveled the
country, and wrote a few books, the latest of which are “The Lower 48” on Six
Gallery Press and “The Studs Terkel Blues” on Night Ballet Press. A short
litany of publishing credits include The New Yinzer, Shatter Wig Press, Blast
Furnace and you can also hear audio of some poems at http://jasonbaldinger.bandcamp.com/.
Stephanie Brea has slung coffee, written 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 Pittsburgh City
Adam Matcho is an obituary writer and contributor to The New Yinzer. He is a former technical writer, novelty shop clerk, basketball coach and gas station attendant. His chapbook, Six Dollars an Hour: Confessions of a Gemini Writer, was published by Liquid Paper Press and his essay collection, The Novelty Essays, was published by WPA Press. When not writing death notices, Adam tries to write about life. He lives in a former craft shop with his wife, two sons and too many animals. As Dave Newman has said, "Adam Matcho has more talent than most corporations have profits, and his vision of
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 Trafford , Pennsylvania
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