Pittsburgh is poetry

Today's Poem of the day, brought to you by Poets.org is a poem by Pittsburgh native Gerald Stern.


Books


How you loved to read in the snow and when your
face turned to water from the internal heat
combined with the heavy crystals or maybe it was
reversus you went half-blind and your eyelashes
turned to ice the time you walked through swirls
with dirty tears not far from the rat-filled river
or really a mile away—or two—in what
you came to call the Aristotle room
in a small hole outside the Carnegie library

Pittsburgh is gargoyles

Or at least, it was...in honor of Halloween.

These babies were at the Phipps Conservatory.

Pittsburgh is experimental theatre

Quantum Theatre's new show is titled When the Rain Stops Falling and it just opened last weekend.

(Contrary to what you might think--it is NOT about Seattle.) 

We've got tickets for this Saturday which to me seems not soon enough.  I cannot wait that long to see this show, given what I've heard about this company (part of it from the Artistic Director Karla Boos).

Written by an Australian playwright named Andrew Bovell, it is being performed in the vacant Iron City Brewery as part of Quantum's initiative to bring theater to different non-theatre spaces, as well as to connect with the community--in this case, Lawrenceville.  They've been doing this kind of thing for twenty years now and from what I hear, they're pretty freaking amazing.

Read more about it at Boring City here.