Thirty Days of Poetry: 2016

Celebrating national poetry month, the Cuyahoga County Public Library's 30 Days of Poetry been posting one poem from a local poet a day for whole month of April.

Check out the whole list, along with the poetry prompts, at CCPL's Thirty Days of Poetry site

The Poets and the Poems:

• 30 April, 2016: Forsythia by Kathleen Cerveny
• 29 April, 2016: Dancing with My Sister by Linda Nemec-Foster
• 28 April, 2016: Poetry Workshop by Claire McMahon
• 27 April, 2016: Right Before Our Eyes by Rikki Santer
• 26 April, 2016: SUN DANCE by Lady K
• 25 April, 2016: Simple Ways by Lori Ann Kusterbeck
• 24 April, 2016: Rhyme by Philip Brady
• 23 April, 2016: Vermis Equinox by Barbara Sabol
• 22 April, 2016: street scene by Leatrice Emeruwa
• 21 April, 2016: the big silver swim by Wendy Shaffer
• 20 April, 2016: ELECTRIC FRUIT by Robert P. Lawry
• 19 April, 2016: Anatomy of a Poem by Miles Budimir
• 18 April, 2016: INSCRIPTION by Darlene Montonaro
• 17 April, 2016: FruitLove by Suzanne Ondrus
• 16 April, 2016: We Are Made of Found Objects by Joshua M. Romig
• 15 April, 2016: White Boy Blues by Steven B. Smith
• 14 April, 2016: The Poet by Lou Suarez
• 13 April, 2016: Falcon Song by Mary O'Malley
• 12 April, 2016: All he asked for by Don Cellini
• 11 April, 2016: I'm by Catherine Wing
• 10 April, 2016: Mennonite Funeral in Southwest Ohio by Thomas Dukes
• 9 April, 2016: Block Boys by Kisha Nicole Foster
• 8 April, 2016: THE THING YOU MUST REMEMBER by Maggie Anderson
• 7 April, 2016: Catching the Bus #2 by Margie Shaheed
• 6 April, 2016: Brother Crow of Pearl Avenue by Bruce Weigl
• 5 April, 2016: Benefits of Geauga County by Steve Brightman
• 4 April, 2016: Horses Running Fast by Shane McCrae
• 3 April, 2016: The Map Room at the Dunham Tavern by Tom Kryss
• 2 April, 2016: To Bloom in Ashtabula by Kathryn Gallagher
• 1 April, 2016: TEETOTUM by Amit Majmudar

Troubled poems

Poet Susan Grimm writes about troublesome poems: (a partial follow-up to her earlier post, How I Thought/Think About Poems I Write):

• The poem that is there but in disguise... The poem that is not yet there...

What do you do when the poem's giving you trouble? Tough love? Let it go? Give it more attention? Try to ignore it?

Ohio Poetry Day 2016 Contests announced

The Ohio Poetry Day contests have just been announced on the Ohio Poetry Day blog:

• Ohio Poetry Day contests 2016

24 contests on a variety of themes and forms, with a (postmark) deadline of May 31: time to start getting your poems written!

Ohio Poetry Day will be celebrated at Heidelberg University in Tiffin this year, with Friday evening contests and prompts on October 14, and the Evan Lodge workshop Saturday mornnig and the Ohio Poetry Day celebration Saturday afternoon on October 15.

Visual Poetry

At Ohio Poetry Association, John Bennett talks about Visual poetry.

Some links:

• John Bennett defines Visual poetry
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_M._Bennett Wikipedia
• http://www.johnmbennett.net Home page
• http://johnmbennettpoetry.blogspot.com Blog

L'oiseau et le bouquet (ca. 1915), by Guillaume Apollinaire

Five Myths about Writers...

My friend Ferrett writes: Five Myths About Writers That Non-Writers Don't Get

• Hard Work Does Not Equal Talent.
• Talent Does Not Equal Success.
• A Talented Writer Does Not Produce Consistently Talented Works.
• Love Does Not Equal Quality. 
• We Are Not In Competition With Each Other.  

Important points, all of them.  Check out the article.

Things that Fly: Art and Ekphrastacy at the Heights

Kite Vista (detail), courtesy Lori Kella. On view in Things That Fly, April 21-June 4, 2016.

Things that Fly: Art and Ekphrastacy at the Heights

anticipating our new exhibition, Things That Fly, which will not disappoint your imagination. With this exhibition comes our first Ekphrastacy program with Christine Howey, newly appointed Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate, as poetry curator:

Things That Fly

Opening Thursday, April 21 6-9pm

Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk + Poets Respond

Thursday May 19, 7pm

• Curated by Heights Arts board member Sharon Grossman, Things That Fly brings together seven Northeast Ohio artists whose works examine the concept of flight. Seven artists--Stephanie Craig, Maggie Denk-Leigh, Lori Kella, Peter Larson, Lynn Norwood Lofton, Lynn O’Brien and Christopher Owen Smith--look to the skies in seven distinct and inspiring ways. Join us for a THURSDAY opening reception.
• And following month, art meets poetry, in the Heights Arts' continuing "Ekphrastacy" series: Join us for an evening with art and poetry.  Cleveland Heights poet laureate Christine Howey brings together the Things That Fly exhibition artists with local poets AKeemjamal Rollins, Geoffrey Landis, Erin Gay, Azriel Johnson, Skylark Bruce, and Terry Provost, to respond with original verse inspired by select objects in the exhibition. It’s always an interesting night; come a bit early to get a seat and enjoy refreshments! FREE, Thursday, May 19 at 7:00 p.m.

Links:

• Things that Fly: opening reception
• Ekphrastacy: poets celebrating art
• Review of the show in the Cleveland Scene

2175 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights, OH 44118

Spring Gallery Hours

Tuesday-Thursday: 10:00am - 6:00pm

Friday: 10:00am-9:30pm

Saturday: 1:30-9:30pm

Sunday-Monday: closed

Robots need poets!

Programming Artificial Intelligence 'bots

... is a job for poets.

photo by GL

Dothead

An interview with Ohio poet Laureate Amit Majmudar, and a poem, from NPR:

• A Radiologist And Poet Explains How He Sees The World In Patterns

30 Days of Poetry: Day One, Amit Majmudar

Celebrating national poetry month, the Cuyahoga County Public Library's 30 Days of Poetry has started, with day one featuring a poem from the new Ohio Poet Laureate, Amit Majmudar.

ABOUT TODAY'S POET
Amit Majmudar has recently been named the first Poet Laureate of the state of Ohio. In addition to two acclaimed novels, he has published three award-winning poetry collections, 0°, 0° (TriQuarterly Books, 2009), Heaven and Earth (Story Line Press, 2011) which won the Donald Justice prize, and Dothead (Knopf Doubleday, 2016). Raised in Cleveland and educated in Northeast Ohio at the University of Akron and Northeast Ohio Medical University, he did his medical residency at University Hospitals in Cleveland. Now as a novelist, poet, essayist, and diagnostic nuclear radiologist, he writes and practices in Dublin, Ohio, where he lives with his wife, twin sons, and baby daughter. Poet's website.


In addition to featuring a poem a day from Ohio poets, 30 days of poetry encourages you to write a poem a day.  Subscribe to the e-mail or read the website every day for a new writing prompt!

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Links:

• 30 Days of Poetry site
• Sign up for the 30 Days of Poetry e-mail
• Reading by Amit Majmudar Saturday, April 2nd, at 2:00 p.m. at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Library.
• or April 5th at the Market Garden Brewery on W. 25th Street (reading along with Midwest National Student Poet De'John Hardges)

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