Mac's Backs is hosting a reading with poet David Adams and poet & publisher Larry Smith from Bottom Dog Press on Wednesday, September 13th at 7 pm. The evening will also be a tribute to the late poet Timothy Russell. Join us for this memorial and celebration of our country's best working-class poets...
Thursday, September 21, 2023
Saturday, September 16, 2023
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Wednesday, September 6, 2023
Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Maj Ragain Poetry Park
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As we continue to honor the gift of Maj's life, we invite you to an open poetry reading on the following day. We will gather at Last Exit Books and Coffeehouse to share a favorite poem by or about Maj. Friday, September 15 | 7 p.m. No registration required. |
Thursday, August 10, 2023
Monday, August 7, 2023
Friday, August 4, 2023
Monday, July 31, 2023
South Euclid poets at the Bexley Bash August 1st
Monday, July 10, 2023
Sunday, July 9, 2023
Saturday, July 1, 2023
Thoreau on being a poet
July 1, 1840 in Thoreau’s Journal:
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Turn Every Page documentary
Writer and editor friends.
This is a fine study of the integrated roles of
author and editor and publisher.
The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
It proves both inspiring and insightful.
Monday, June 19, 2023
Friday, June 16, 2023
Visible Voice Signing
Hi, folks...we Northern Ohio Writers are coming to
Visible Voice Books (Tremont)on Saturday June 24th at 4-7
Thursday, June 8, 2023
The Price of a Small Hot Fire
A careful study on estrangement and loss, The Price of a Small Hot Fire excavates the archetypal horrors of monstrous motherhood, from abandonment and unsteady reconciliation to the grave. Experimental and intimate, E.F. Schraeder’s collection gives voice to a semi-autobiographical examination of a griefscape from a queer lens.
Pre-order a signed copy at https://rawdogscreaming.com/books/the-price-of-a-small-hot-fire/.
Advance praise:
“E.F. Schraeder’s wonderful collection The Price of a Small Hot Fire is a gleaming poetic knife: strong, sharp, and heart-carving.”
– Lucy A. Snyder, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Exposed Nerves
“Schraeder writes with teeth sharpened by decades of grit and despair; vicious and morose in equal measure.”
– Anton Cancre, author of This Story Doesn’t End the Way We Want All the Time
Thursday, June 1, 2023
Timothy Russell
Here, friends, are two fine Ohio poets
whose work we are proud to share.
Tim passed away in Sept. 2021 and this is his collected poems
with photos, timeline, remembrance by wife Jodi,
and a fine introduction by Marc Harshman.
David J. Adams is very much with us and for us.
This is his New and Selected.
Both are at our web site and up on Amazon.
Monday, May 22, 2023
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
Resurrection Letter: Leonora, Her Tarot, and Me - 5/11 at Kaiser Gallery
Looking forward to Columbus poet Rikki Santer's book launch this Thursday, 5/11, at the Kaiser Gallery in Tremont.
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
5/27 in Columbus and Online: the Ohio Poetry Association presents a Beat Poetry Workshop
May 27th, Ohio Beat Poet Laureate Sandra Feen and U.S. Beat Poet Laureate John Burroughs will present "You've Got the Beat," a unique Beat poetry workshop sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association. Attend either online or in person at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center in Columbus, Ohio. Please register at https://www.ohiopoetryassn.org/events.
Saturday, April 29, 2023
Tuesday, April 11, 2023
CLE Poetry Festival: April 21-22
From our friends at Literary Cleveland:
Draft new poems, advance your craft, meet publishers, and celebrate poetry with the best poets and editors in the city.
Join
Literary Cleveland, CWRU English Department, CSU Poetry Center,
Grieveland, and Mac's Backs Books for the Cleveland Poetry Festival
April 21-22.
Spots are limited. Register here.
Monday, April 10, 2023
The CSU Poetry Center Turns Sixty!
From our friends at the Cleveland State University Poetry Center:
The
CSU Poetry Center is celebrating 60 years this Friday--join us in
celebrating over half a century of publishing, programming, &
pedagogy!!!
Friday, April 7, 2023
Monday, April 3, 2023
Self-Publishing Roundtable, April 6th in South Euclid
* Juliet Cook (Blood Pudding Press publisher and co-author of Short Poems About Violence and Chickens),
* Michelle R. Smith (Literary Cleveland Programming Associate and author of The Vagina Analogues), and
* John Burroughs (Crisis Chronicles Press publisher and author of The Wrest of the Worthwhile).
1876 S Green Road
South Euclid, Ohio 44121