From our friends at Heights Arts:
Cleveland Heights Poet Laureateship
Heights Arts is selecting the 11
th
Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate – to serve between April 2023 and March
2025. The poet laureateship is the longest-running laureateship in the
state of Ohio, and will raise your profile in the community; give you
experience writing occasional poems; and increase your awareness of
Cleveland Heights communities, organizations and individuals you may not
have met before. You will have a deep connection with Heights Arts and
will collaborate with artists across genres. Serving
as Poet Laureate may increase your future funding possibilities. Our
outgoing poet laureate, Ray McNiece, was awarded a substantial grant
from the Academy of American Poets as a direct result of his role as CH
poet laureate. Says McNiece of his laureateship, “Serving
as The Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate has provided me with the
opportunity not only to refocus on my poetry, but more so on my role as a
community poet. Writing is often a solitary art, but the laureateship
by its very nature engages my art, particularly through the Ekphrastacy
series, which provides me and other poets in the community with an
opportunity to work with a wider audience.”
Learn more and apply to be the next Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate
Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond
The
Ekphrastacy literary program is a series of artist talks + poetry
readings held regularly in the Heights Arts gallery, in conjunction with
our four, yearly exhibitions. Cleveland-area writers are invited to
view the installed artworks and respond with poetry. Five weeks after
the exhibition opening, the artists talk about their work and the poets
read their poems, often resulting in a surprising dialogue.
Participating poets receive an honorarium for their participation.
Learn more and apply to perform in the 2023 Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond series
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