Mark your calendars for October 23 at Speak of the Devil Cocktail Bar in Lorain, Ohio, to catch performances by poets Christine Howey, Marcel Fable Price, and Ray McNiece, hosted by Dianne Borsenik. Exponential fabulousness!
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Showing posts with label Christine Howey. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christine Howey. Show all posts
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Wednesday, January 18, 2023
Christine Howey Has a Poem About That
Crisis Chronicles Press is ecstatic to announce the publication of their first title of 2023, I Have a Poem About That by Cleveland's own Christine Howey.
I Have a Poem About That is 36 pp, 6 x 9", perfect bound, with cover art by Jessie Herzfeld. ISBN 979-8-88596-993-2. Available for $10 from Crisis Chronicles Press, 535 Parkside Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio 44143 USA.
This volume features 23 poems, including "When We Die We Become Birds," "My Skiff," "Camus at Camp," "A Meeting of Suburban Deer," "Eternity on Elm Street," "Inside Out," "Invert at the Gem Saloon, Deadwood, South Dakota, 1876," "My Name Is John Doe," "Mount Everest," "Paul Desmond's Slot Machine," "Ten Ill-Conceived Kitchen Gadgets," "Maybe I Should Have Told Different Lies," "After I'm Gone," "Blueberries, Summer, 1944," "The Last One," "The Road Oft Taken," "Sign of the Cross," "A Bubble-Off Romance," "The Birds and the Bees," "The History of Television," "The Universal Usage Guide," "An Ode to Richard Howie," and "My Words Are Too Big Today."
Christine Howey is a performance poet and former executive director of Literary Cleveland. Her one-person play of poetry about her transgender journey, Exact Change, premiered at Cleveland Public Theatre and was selected by the New York International Fringe Festival. A film version of the play was an official selection of the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival.
Christine has also been an award-winning theater critic in Cleveland for 25 years, currently with Cleveland Scene. She was named Transgender Leader of the Year in Northeast Ohio and received the Torch Award from the Human Rights Campaign for leadership on transgender issues.
Wednesday, March 28, 2018
Cleveland Heights Poets Laureate: Past, Present, and Future
Cleveland Heights is about to have a new Poet Laureate. Christine Howey writes:
Come and hear Cleveland Heights Poets Laureate—past, present and future—read some of their favorite poems! It’s a celebration of words and those who love them. And a big thank you to Cleveland Heights and Heights Arts for even having a Poet Laureate!Hope to see you there! And please pass this along to anyone who might be interested.The event will be this Thursday, March 29, at 7pm in the Coventry Village Branch library
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Calling All Haikuists!
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| Haiku Master Ray McNiece (red) faces off against contestant Geoffrey Landis (behind) at the2 017 Haiku Death Match |
Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate Christine Howey writes:
Attention all Haiku Master Wannabes! Heights Arts' 2018 Haiku Death Match will take place April 21 at Ensemble theater. Application for the Death Match is now open. You can find more information as well as the application and all the rules and regs here:
Only 10 poets will compete - first come, first served - so get on it!
Winner gets a cheesy trophy and the title of Haiku Master, plus no-commission sale of their books/chapbooks in the Heights Arts Gallery for a year. And, of course, the adulation of the public. Will YOU be the next Haiku Master?
Yay!
--Christine
Tickets for the 6th Annual Haiku Death Match will go on sale to the public in March, 2018.
Tuesday, May 17, 2016
Ekphrastacy: Join us Thursday, May 19 at 7pm
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Wednesday, April 13, 2016
Things that Fly: Art and Ekphrastacy at the Heights
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| Kite Vista (detail), courtesy Lori Kella. On view in Things That Fly, April 21-June 4, 2016. |
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
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Monday, March 28, 2016
Christine Howey: the New Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights!
Heights Arts has announced the news poet laureate of Cleveland Heights: Christine Howey.Christine is quite well known in the local poetry community, participating in readings and on the Lake Effect Poetry slam team, and author and performer of the one woman play/poetry performance "Exact Change," which debuted in Akron, ran in Playhouse Square last summer, and then played in New York last fall.
Horray for Christine!
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
Pudding House Salon-Cleveland to Launch New Chapbook 10/29 at Coventry Village Library
(click pic once or twice for a larger, more readable/printable version)What: Book Launch & poetry reading, to celebrate new chapbook anthology from the first year of our Cleveland workshop
Who: Pudding House Salon-Cleveland poets
Host: Sammy Greenspan, director, Pudding House Salon-Cleveland
Featured readers: Kathleen Cerveny, Shelley Chernin, Christine Howey
Emcees: Dianne Borsenik & John Burroughs of Lix & Kix
Where: Coventry Village Library, 1925 Coventry Road, Cleveland Heights, Ohio, (216) 321-3400
When: Friday, October 29, 2010 at 7 p.m.
Cost: Free and open to the public
Refreshments provided
Free parking behind the library
Contributors to the Pudding House Publications anthology What I Knew Before I Knew include Courtenay Roberts, Linda Tuthill, Howard D. Hersch, Mary O'Malley, Nancy Nixon, Meredith Holmes, Bonne de Blas, Shelley Chernin, John B. Burroughs, Kathleen Cerveny, Linda Goodman Robiner, Dawn Shimp, Dianne Borsenik, Mark Hersman, Christine Howey, Caroline Dandalides, Cindy Washabaugh, Jocelyn Adams, and Sammy Greenspan.
Register at: http://heightslibrary.org/
You may also visit our event page on Facebook.
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