Join us at the annual Jawbone poetry festival in Kent! Contact RC Wilson at rcwilsonii@gmail.com for more information.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
May 3rd thru 5th: Jawbone in Kent
Monday, April 15, 2024
April 27: Fireside Poetry Festival in Chagrin Falls
From our friends at Fireside Book Shop:
More info: https://www.firesidebookshop.com/events/2024/4/27/fireside-book-shop-poetry-festival.
Fireside Book Shop
29 North Franklin Street
Chagrin Falls, OH, 44022
Thursday, April 11, 2024
April 15th: Pádraig Ó Tuama comes to John Carroll University
Reposted from our friend Philip Metres:
NOT
TO BE MISSED! On April 15th at 6pm, in JCU’s Donahue Auditorium (Dolan
Science Center) at John Carroll University, join us for a talk and
reading of poems by celebrated Irish poet, theologian, and podcaster
Pádraig Ó Tuama.
Ó Tuama is a poet, theologian, conflict
resolution mediator, and the author of Being Here: Prayers for
Curiosity, Justice, and Love (2024), Poetry Unbound (2022), Feed the
Beast (2022), Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community (2017), In the
Shelter (2015), Sorry for Your Troubles (2013), and Readings from the
Books of Exile (2012). About his most recent collection of poems, Feed
the Beast, Jericho Brown says, “This book is unashamed about poetry’s
relationship to the spirit. I would go as far as saying this book is one
way we know poetry is prayer.” His memoir, In the Shelter, interweaves
everyday stories with narrative theology, gospel reflections with
mindfulness, and Celtic spirituality with poetry for a memoir that
relates ideas of shelter and welcome to journeys of life.
For
those who don’t know Pádraig, he is a man of many talents—a poet,
theologian, mediator, podcaster (one of the best podcasts on poetry, and
another on peacebuilding for Corrymeela). He’s wise, engaging, and
deeply moving, and NOT TO BE MISSED!
All are welcome! Free and open to the public. Books for sale by Mac’s Backs.
John Carroll University
1 John Carroll Boulevard
University Heights, OH 44118
April 18th: Ekphrastacy at Heights Arts
Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond
Thursday, April 18th at 7:00 p.m.Join Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman and guest poets Beks Freeman, Carrie George, and Philip Metres for a night of surrealism and the unconventional. For this Ekphrastacy, poets respond to the current exhibition on view in Heights Art's gallery, Irrational Objects: Backwards Into the Future. Their live poetry will undoubtedly respond to and interrogate surrealist themes of the unexpected and uncanny. Artists in the exhibition will also speak about their work. Reserve your spot today!
Heights Arts
2175 Lee Road
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
heightsarts.org
Thursday, April 4, 2024
April 10: Cornelius Eady and Arlene Keizer at Kent State
Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize Reading
Featuring Cornelius Eady and Arlene Keizer
When: Wednesday, April 10, 7:00 pm
Where: African Community Theatre, Oscar Ritchie Hall (225 Terrace Drive), Kent, Ohio
Cornelius Eady is the author of several books of poetry, including the critically acclaimed Hardheaded Weather, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award, Victims of the Latest Dance Craze, winner of the 1985 Lamont Prize from the Academy of American Poets, The Gathering of My Name, which was nominated for the 1992 Pulitzer Prize, and his most recent collection The War Against the Obvious. With poet Toi Derricote, Eady is cofounder of Cave Canem, a national organization for African American poetry and poets. He is the recipient of an NEA Fellowship in Literature, a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry, a Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to Bellagio, Italy, and The Prairie Schooner Strousse Award. Eady has been a teacher for over twenty years, and is currently the Chair of Excellence in the English Department at the University of Tennessee Knoxville.
Arlene Keizer, an Afro-Caribbean-American poet and scholar, writes about the literature, lived experience, theory, and visual art of the African Diaspora. The recipient of an Academy of American Poets Prize, she later earned an MA in English and Creative Writing (Poetry) at Stanford University and a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of Black Subjects: Identity Formation in the Contemporary Narrative of Slavery, and her poems and articles have appeared in African American Review, American Literature, Kenyon Review, PMLA, Radical Teacher, TriQuarterly, and other journals and exhibit catalogues. New poems are forthcoming in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora. Arlene completed Fraternal Light: On Painting While Black published by The Kent State University Press with the support of fellowships from the Beinecke Library at Yale and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where she has been reading Beauford Delaney's mail. Born to emigrants from Trinidad, she lives in Brooklyn, NY and teaches at Pratt Institute.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Tuesday, March 26, 2024
A Gathering of Laurels II - April 6th in South Euclid
A Gathering of Laurels II
Ohio Poets Laureate read from their work for National Poetry Month
on Saturday, April 06, 2024 from
2:00pm to 3:30pm EDT
at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library.
Join us as Poets Laureate from around Ohio share their work. Doc
Janning, the Inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of South Euclid, will
emcee the event. Books will be available for sale and signing, and we'll
celebrate with light refreshments.
Featured poets:
John Burroughs, Beat Poet Laureate Emeritus of Ohio and the U.S.
Sandra Feen, Beat Poet Laureate of Ohio
Doc Janning, Inaugural Poet Laureate of South Euclid and Third Poet
Laureate of Cuyahoga County
Jeremy Jusek, Poet Laureate of Parma
Jonie McIntire, Poet Laureate of Lucas County
Ray McNiece, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cleveland Heights
Dr. Mary Weems, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cleveland Heights
https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/9574197
1876 S. Green Road
Writers Center Conference Room
South Euclid, Ohio 44121
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Poets John Dorsey & Ken Gierke to appear March 22nd at Mac's Backs
Poets John Dorsey, author of Pocatello Wildflower and Ken Gierke, author of Glass Awash will read at Mac's on Friday, March 22nd at 7 pm.
John Dorsey is the former Poet Laureate of Belle, MO and the author of several collections of poetry, including Which Way to the River: Selected Poems 2016-2020 (OAC Books, 2020), Sundown at the Redneck Carnival, (Spartan Press, 2022, and Pocatello Wildflower, (Crisis Chronicles Press, 2023).
Ken Gierke is a retired truck driver, transplanted to Missouri from Western New York. In spite of muddy water and a dearth of maples, after only ten years he is coming to think of Missouri as home. His poetry has been published or is forthcoming both in print and online in such places as Ekphrastic Review, Amethyst Review, Silver Birch Press, and The Gasconade Review. His first collection of poetry, Glass Awash, has been published by Spartan Press.
Mac's Backs Books on Coventry
1820 Coventry Road
Cleveland, Heights, Ohio
www.macsbacks.com
Tuesday, March 5, 2024
Monday, March 4, 2024
Celebrate National Poetry Month with Ohio Center for the Book
From our friends at Ohio Center for the Book:
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Tuesday, February 20, 2024
2024 Cleveland Poetry Festival: April 12-14
From our friends at Literary Cleveland:
Cleveland Poetry Festival: April 12-14
We’re thrilled to announce that Cleveland Poetry Festival is back Friday-Sunday April 12-14 at Cleveland Museum of Art Community Art Center on West 25th.
This year, we're exploring an exciting new theme: the intersection of POETRY + ART, commemorating visual poetry, the interplay between image and text, the use of type in art, and the ways poetry and virtual art influence each other.
🖊️ Draft new poems in workshops on poetry & photos, ekphrastic writing, and comics
🗨️ Participate in dynamic panel discussions on looking, image & text, and artists/poets
📚 Browse the book and art fair with booksellers, journals, presses, and artists
🎤 Attend readings and join the open mic to share your work
Local presenters include Northeast Ohio poets and artists Mansa L. Bey, Ali Black, Donald Black, Danny Caine, Siaara Freeman, Carrie George, Stephanie Ginese, J.P. Hernandez, Kevin Latimer, Michael Lorderstedt, Philip Metres, Wendy Partridge, Alyssa Perry, and Zach Savich.
Visiting authors include Lauren Haldeman (poet, graphic artist, and Iowa Arts Fellow), Joyelle McSweeney (Guggenheim fellow and co-founder of Action Books), Diana Khoi Nguyen (author of Ghost Of which was a finalist for the National Book Award), and Cindy Juyoung Ok (author of Ward Toward, which won the Yale Younger Poets Prize).
Space is limited so don't miss out! Register here
Saturday, February 3, 2024
Friday, February 2, 2024
2/18: Rebel Readers / Quartez Harris / Poets Against Racism & Hate
From our friends at Poets Against Racism & Hate USA:
"We’re
so pleased to help facilitate an appearance by PARH USA member (and
talented poet) Quartez Harris and the Rebel Readers Book Club at
Loganberry Books in Shaker Heights, OH. Co-founder Debbie Allen will join
Quartez to discuss his compelling collection, We Made It To School
Alive" (on February 18th at 3 pm).
Follow Poets Against Racism & Hate USA at https://poetsagainstracism-usa.org.
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Submissions call: Words Not Weapons anthology
Submit at https://forms.gle/1KNLbbgejYydC26L9.
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