Haiku Hikes and Ekphrastacy Events in Cleveland Heights

 From our friends at Heights Arts. The first Haiku Hike is this Saturday, August 28th, at Cain Park.

HAIKU HIKES This Saturday, join Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate Ray McNiece on a seasonal morning ginkgo (haiku walk), through Cain Park learning and creating poetry according to centuries-old traditions. These customs cultivate a seasonal awareness that improves one’s powers of poetic and natural observation.  Hikes will begin with a formal introduction to haiku, continue with 4 stops along the way, then conclude with a final sharing. Sign up for one session or all four seasons in a series we're offering in celebration of Cleveland Heights' centennial anniversary. Find out more about how to register for a single hike or the full series, HERE   EKPHRASTACY EVENTS Each exhibition at Heights arts showcases outstanding visual art which we then celebrate through poetry during the run of that show. Perhaps you've attended one of these readings and wondered how the poets all train to be such impressive performers. With Ray's guidance, selected applicants are provided a structured approach to choosing visual art that speaks to them, developing their poetic response, and then presenting their interpretations at one of our most beloved programs. If you're a literary enthusiast, we encourage you to check out our open call for poets, HERE

Lit Youngstown 2021 Fall Literary Festival Registration Open

From our friends at Lit Youngstown:

Are you a reader, writer, editor, publisher, student or educator of the literary arts? We hope you will join us for the 5th annual Fall Literary Festival in Youngstown, Ohio, October 7-9.

This year’s conference theme is “Our Shared Story” and we are thrilled to host visiting writers Teri Ellen Cross Davis (poet), Jan Beatty (memoirist), Matt Forrest Esenwine (children’s author), Bonnie Proudfoot (novelist), & Mike Geither (playwright).

Over 70 presenters from throughout the U.S. will lead sessions on reading, understanding, writing, editing and publishing creative works. The conference is an affordable (early bird until Sept. 1) $45, with deep discounts for contingent faculty and graduate students, and need-based sponsorships available. Undergraduate and high school student registration is free.

Hope to see you there! This event is made possible with major funding from the Centofanti Foundation. 

To learn more and register, visit: https://www.lityoungstown.org/fall-literary-festival-2021.

William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage 2021-2022 Season Announced

The following is from our friends at the Cuyahoga County Public Library. For more information, visit https://case.edu/maltzcenter/upcoming-events/william-n-skirball-writers-center-stage.

DON'T MISS A SHOW! Writers Center Stage is returning to the beautiful Maltz Performing Arts Center at Case Western Reserve University for the 2021-2022 season. This season we have also added a live stream option. All events will be held at 7:30 p.m. EST.

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RICHARD POWERS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 2021  Award-winning author Richard Powers is known for writing novels that explore modern science and technology. His best-selling novel The Overstory (2019) won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. His latest novel, Bewilderment, will be released in September 2021.

AMOR TOWLES TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 2021 When Amor Towles released Rules of Civility, it quickly became a New York Times best-seller and was named by the Wall Street Journal as one of the best books of 2011. His second novel, A Gentleman in Moscow, was on the best-sellers list for more than 52 weeks. Towles' latest book, The Lincoln Highway, will be released in October 2021.

MIN JIN LEE TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2021 Award-winning author Min Jin Lee's debut novel, Free Food for Millionaires (2007) became a national best-seller and Netflix adapted it as a television series. Her second novel, Pachinko (2017), was a finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction and named one of The New York Times' 10 best books of the year.

CARMEN MARIA MACHADO & RUMAAN ALAM WEDNESDAY, MARCH 9, 2022 Carmen Maria Machado is known for blending surrealism, fantasy and horror in her writing. She is the author of the best-selling memoir In the Dream House and the award-winning short story collection Her Body and Other Parties. Rumaan Alam's thriller, Leave the World Behind, was a finalist for the 2020 National Book Award and is being adapted into a film with Julia Roberts and Denzel Washington.

ISABEL WILKERSON THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 2022 The New York Times called Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson's latest book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (2020) "an instant American classic," and TIME Magazine labeled it a must-read book. Wilkerson's first book, The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration (2010), won the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award for nonfiction, among other honors.

ANTHONY DOERR MONDAY, MAY 2, 2022 Anthony Doerr's novel All The Light We Cannot See won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction, and was a finalist for the National Book Award. It spent more than three and a half years on The New York Times' best-seller list. His latest book, Cloud Cuckoo Land, will be released in September 2021.

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The 2021-2022 William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage Series is presented by the Cuyahoga County Public Library Foundation and its academic partner Case Western Reserve University.   Funds raised by this series help support Cuyahoga County Public Library, the nation's top-rated library system for eleven consecutive years.

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Book Launch for Two Cleveland Area Authors at Visible Voice

https://www.visiblevoicebooks.com/events/book-launch-no-life-but-this-a-novel-of-emily-warren-roebling/

Literary Cleveland Inkubator to feature Claudia Rankine, Viet Thanh Nguyen, and New Yorker Writers

From our friends at Literary Cleveland:

 

This summer, Literary Cleveland’s annual Inkubator Writing Conference will take place virtually from July 11-25 with 31 free events totaling 78 hours of literary programming.  

 

The 2021 Inkubator will offer a wide range of interactive classes, craft talks, open mics, and panel discussions. This year’s conference features 11 multi-session workshops including teen and intergenerational classes as well as a printmaking and bookbinding workshop for those interested in making their own physical book.  

 

Nationally-recognized writers who will participate include Viet Thanh Nguyen in conversation with Thrity Umrigar and a panel of New Yorker writers originally from Cleveland: Andy Borowitz, Marry Norris, and Kathryn Schulz. An all-star lineup of local authors will lead panels on writing in prisons, solutions journalism, ethical representation in literature, how storytelling can affect social change, and writing about illness beyond the pandemic. Plus four editors from major New York publishing houses will discuss state of the industry and provide feedback on participant’s first paragraphs.  

 

The two-week event will be capped off by a keynote reading and discussion with renowned author Claudia Rankine. Rankine, presented by Cleveland Public Library. Rankine is a MacArthur fellow and the author of Just Us: An American Conversation (2020) and Citizen: An American Lyric, which won the 2015 National Book Critic’s Circle Award in poetry. 

 

Similar to last year, nearly all of the events will take place digitally this year due to the coronavirus pandemic. However there will be an in-person outdoor pop-up event at the Cleveland Public Library Eastman Garden on Saturday, July 17 featuring a book fair, DJ, food and drink vendors, and a community building workshop with an open mic.  

 

The 2020 Inkubator is supported by Cuyahoga Arts and Culture, the Cleveland Public Library, the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities, the Northeast Ohio MFA Program, Mac’s Backs Book, Loganberry Books, Appletree Books, Hathaway Brown and the Press Club of Cleveland.  

 

Literary Cleveland is a nonprofit committed to helping people “explore other voices and discover their own.” The organization is a community of writers committed to bringing people into the world of words by providing educational writing opportunities at all levels, promoting new and existing literature of the highest quality, and advancing Northeast Ohio as a vital center of diverse voices and visions. 

 

To register and for more information, visit our website.

Poem about Mourning...

  

Poem shared on As It Ought to Be Magazine..

(good place to submit)

https://asitoughttobemagazine.com/2021/04/27/larry-smith-grief-into-mourning/

The Ohio Poetry Association Launches a New Podcast

The Ohio Poetry Association presents a new podcast hosted by Cleveland area poet Jeremy Jusek. Poetry Spotlight "interviews active Ohio poets. Each episode goes in a different direction based on our guest, but the goal is always the same: investigate what makes Buckeye writers tick. Inspiration, projects, and perspectives on writing are all on the table." A new episode every other Thursday! Click here for more info.

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