|
Type: Public
Created: Jul 23, 2009
Members: 1
Views: 587
Location: Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
|
Group Creator:
|
Gist Street Poetry 9th Annual Cookout Extravaganza!
Gist Street Poetry 9th Annual Cookout Extravaganza!The Gist Street Reading Series, now in its ninth year, focuses on emerging writers of poetry and prose publishing their first or second books. Generally held the first Friday of each month on the 3rd floor of James Simon's Sculpture studio in the Uptown neighborhood of Pittsburgh, the third Saturday in July the series hosts a big potluck cookout extravaganza in Simon's back yard. Each year the cookout highlights a small press. In 2009 Pitstburgh's own Autumn House Press was featured. Past featured presses include Graywolf, Softskull, University of Nebraska Press, McSweeney's, and Mammoth. The audience, at about 160 even with a rainstorm, filled up the cozy, eclectic space. Mary Crockett Hill and Sam Ligon read from their Autumn House books. The grillers grilled. The audience carried in all kinds of good food and drink, and then Tom and Suzanne Roberts played music.
Featuring Autumn House PressSamuel Ligonis the winner of the 2008 Autumn House Fiction Prize for his short story collection Drift and Swerve, as well as the author of Safe in Heaven Dead, a novel (Harper Collins 2003). His stories have appeared in The Quarterly, Alaska Quarterly Review, Story Quarterly, Post Road, New Orleans Review, Keyhole, Sleepingfish, Gulf Coast, Other Voices, and elsewhere. He teaches at Eastern Washington University's Inland Northwest Center for Writers, and is the editor of Willow Springs. He lives in Spokane with his wife and two children.Mary Crockett Hill has worked as a factory slug, staggeringly bad waitress, incompetent secretary, the person who irons name tags in industrial uniforms, toilet-seat hand model, fundraising spy, freelance writer, history museum director, and college English teacher. Her first book, If you Return Home with Food, won the bluestem Award. Her second book, A Theory of Everything, won the 2008 Autumn House Poetry Prize. Mary lives along the old Great Road in Virginia with her husband and children.
www.giststreet.org
www.autumnhouse.org
www.georgethomasmendel.com
www.simonsculpture.com
Photography By:
George Mendel Photography
Enjoy the Pictures in the Grapevine Gallery Below, if you find some pictures you would like to have, please click the link below.
Buy Pictures, Mugs, etc here
-camera notes-
These images were made with a vintage Leica Noctilux 50mm f1.0 lens on a Leica M8 digital camera. A uv/ir blocking filter was also used on the lens. Yes that is right f1 , this was at one time (before digital and image stabilizing), the holy grail of night-time-photojourlnism. The new and updated Noctilux has just been released (sharper & even faster f.95), but the price of a updated version is, well if you have to ask, you had better buy a vintage version.
No flash was used and asa/iso was varied between 160 and 1280 (all handheld). images were processed from raw-dng files in lightroom and jpg compressed to 2100 pixel width for the Grapevine Gallery.
Most of the images were shot at or between f1 and f4 (later evening images mostly at f1)
These images are not the sharpest, but not bad for a lens made in the mid 1970's, with a depth of field of around 1-3 inches wide open.
|
