August 13th, 2009 / 9:12 am
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is “yinzer” the Pittsburgh word for “river” ?

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There’s a new issue of The New Yinzer out. TNY is a Pittsburgh-based online lit journal, and the summer edition is guest-edited by Claire Donato, a poet whom we’ve loved on here before. (1 love, 2 love.) It’s a very strong issue, featuring several essays and selections of visual art (see Matchbox Museum piece, above). Here’s a taste of what’s inside (the journal is designed as a split screen with the TOC on the left and content on the right, obviating the need for linking to individual pieces)-

Katy HenriksenĀ  (essay) – “Handmade Books: Or, My Answer to an Increasingly Digital and Mass-Manufactured World.” A good bookbinding awl has a rounded, wooden handle for cradling in the palm of your hand and a sharp point at the end of the metal rod for piercing. For the Cannibal stitch we needed four holes in each signature, two an inch apart an inch from the top, and two an inch apart an inch from the bottom, making the total of holes punched for the issue exactly 4,000.

Brian Foley (poem) – “Older at Night.” It could be a photograph / We both live in.

Claire Donato & Jeff T. Johnson (curated gallery) – “Matchbox Museum.” Being resolute against all others in going forward, being not the moss, being the mess side by side. We’re current.

Matthew Savoca (essay) – “A Zen Essay in Which Nothing is Accomplished.” I want to get as many online literature writers as possible to buy Powerball tickets together, in the same way that many business people who work at offices do.

Blake Butler (short-short) – “Accident.” Her gums and tongue were scorched with symbols.

Ryan Manning (photographs) – “Sky Polaroids.”

And, oh yeah, I’m in it too- a few erasure poems and a short “thesis statement” on the practice of erasure. But my favorite thing in the issue, at least thus far, are Ryan’s photos.

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GO READ THE ISSUE!

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9 Comments

  1. John Madera

      I was lucky to get one of Ryan’s radiant polaroids in the mail.

  2. cate

      yinz or y’unz = abrv. of “you ones”, a uniquely Pittsburgh way of saying “y’all”
      sweet issue!

  3. cate

      yinz or y’unz = abrv. of “you ones”, a uniquely Pittsburgh way of saying “y’all”
      sweet issue!

  4. claire donato

      thanks, JT!
      :)

  5. claire donato

      thanks, JT!
      :)

  6. dave m.

      As a co-founder of the New Yinzer way back in 2002 I can’t believe the thing is still going strong. Glad to see HTMLGiant giving a little Pgh-based mag some “props”.

  7. dave m.

      As a co-founder of the New Yinzer way back in 2002 I can’t believe the thing is still going strong. Glad to see HTMLGiant giving a little Pgh-based mag some “props”.

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