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.
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Monday, August 2, 2021
William N. Skirball Writers Center Stage 2021-2022 Season Announced
Wednesday, June 30, 2021
Thursday, May 13, 2021
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.
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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/
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
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.
Follow the Ohio Poetry Association:
www.ohiopoetry.org
Facebook / Twitter
Become a member.
Friday, April 16, 2021
Write the Beats with Ray McNiece
From Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate Ray McNiece:
Write the Beats
A Workshop of Beat Writer Prompts
Beat era poets have had a profound influence on modern culture and mores as well as contemporary poetics—in particular performance poetry. Write the Beats is a workshop of Beat poetry prompts: Each of the six weeks will use a prompt based on a poem by a prominent beat era poet: Ginsberg, Snyder, Ferlinghetti, DiPrima, Kaufman and Kerouac. Prompts will explore themes of political poetry/identity, environmentalism, feminist poetry, surrealism, and spontaneous bop prosody. We will also look at works by Baraka, Waldman, and Corso for the poetry of rebellion, beat spirituality and neo romanticism.
Online via Zoom on Thursdays from 6pm-8pm April 22-May 27th
Register to receive the zoom link and class instructions. https://www.litcleveland.org/classes-workshops/write-the-beats-a-workshop-of-beat-poetry-prompts
Ray McNiece is the author of nine books of poems and monologues, most recently Love Song for Cleveland, a collaboration with photographer Tim Lachina, and Breath Burns Away: New Haiku. He toured Russia with Yevgeny Yevtushenko. He also toured Italy twice with legendary beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and was writer in residence at the Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida.
Thursday, April 1, 2021
Poetry month, featuring 30 Days of Poetry!
Once again, it's April with his shoures soote (in this case, snow showers). And that means once again it's National Poetry Month. And, once again, Laurie Kincer of the Cuyahoga County Public library has put together Thirty Days of Poetry, featuring a poem from a Northeastern Ohio Poet, and a poetry prompt, delivered right into your inbox every day this month.
Laurie writes:
Hello, poets!
I hope you’re signed up to receive Read + Write: 30 Days of Poetry, Cuyahoga County Public Library’s National Poetry Month blog. Every day in April, you’ll receive a poem by a poet who lives, works, or has some important tie to northeast Ohio; a poetry writing prompt to try; and a poetry book to check out of the library. Here’s a sample of the daily blog and the link to sign up for it.
You’re also invited to these special poetry workshops:
- Now We’re Cookin’: Recipes for Revising Half-Baked Poems - Cuyahoga County Public Library (cuyahogalibrary.org) Thursday, April 1, 7-8:30 p.m.
- Practical Principles of Writing Poetry - Cuyahoga County Public Library (cuyahogalibrary.org) Saturday, May 1, 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
And, of course, these regular, monthly gatherings of poets:
- Second Sunday Poets - Cuyahoga County Public Library (cuyahogalibrary.org) Sunday, April 11, 3-4:30 p.m. Featured reader: Toledo poet Jonie McIntire, host of Uncloistered Poetry.
- West Side Poetry Writing Workshop - Cuyahoga County Public Library (cuyahogalibrary.org) Thursday, April 22, 6:30-8:30 p.m.
Happy National Poetry Month to you and yours!
...and if that's not enough for you, check out Michelle R. Smith's blog, "Forcing Bulbs", where she is posting a poetry prompt every day in celebration of NaPoWriMo. Start with Day One.
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