Gist Street Reading Series The Gist Street reading series, Terrance Hayes (poetry) and Jon Ritz (fiction) Friday, February 8, 2002 - 7:30 p.m. James Simon's Sculpture Studio, 3rd floor - 305 Gist Street - Uptown, Pittsburgh 412-434-5629. Suggested donation $2. The monthly Gist Street reading series features an array of local and nationally known poets and writers. The readings are unpretentious and fun. This month, it's our first annual Two Talls Guys Readin'reading. Enter the Gist Street raffle; win a book. BYOB. Homemade bread by Antoine. Big fun. Brief bios: Terrance Hayes' second book of poems, Hip Logic (Viking-Penguin 2002), was chosen by Cornelius Eady as a National Poetry Series selection. His debut collection, Muscular Music, won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award and a Whiting Emerging Writers Award and also received reviews in Black Issues Book Review and Washington Post Book World. Terrance's work has recently appeared in Chelsea, Harvard Review, The Journal, River City, and The Southern Review. He is currently an assistant professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. Jon Ritz grew up in Pittsburgh and is very happy to be living in western Pennsylvania again for the first time in a decade. His fiction and essays have appeared recently in American Literary Review, North Atlantic Review, Literature and Belief, the Chicago Tribune, and have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Currently he teaches writing at the University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown. Hope to see you there! Directions: Gist Street is a right turn off of Forbes (if you're heading from Downtown toward Oakland) or a left turn off of 5th Avenue (heading from Oakland toward Downtown). If you're taking the Parkway toward Downtown, take the Blvd. of the Allies exit and take a quick right onto Gist (just after the Pittsburgh Type building). The building is three story brick with an ugly plastic, yellow fence running along the side. The inside of the building s quite cozy. There's a big (BIG) 305 painted and propped against the window and a giant King Kong wrapped in plastic. Next month on Friday, March 1, 2002 Barbara Edelman (poetry) and Ellen Wadey (fiction) will be reading, and on Friday, April 5 we'll have Jan Beatty (poetry) and Kathleen Lee (fiction). Wow. --Sherrie BUS: 61A/B/C, 71A/C/D, 500