My final reading of the year is on Zoom!
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I'm thrilled to be part of this on Saturday. From our friends at the CCPL:
Join us to celebrate the publication of Poem for Cleveland, a new anthology written by over 100 youth and elder poets. Poets will be reading their poems from this second edition of the book.
The Poem for Cleveland project was a year-long series of workshops led by Ray McNiece, former Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate and Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award winner. The project culminated in the publication of the anthology by local publisher, Red Giant Press. Poem for Cleveland was made possible by the Academy of American Poets with funds from the Mellon Foundation.
McNiece worked with youth poets to present writing workshops for elder poets at various community venues, including the William N. Skirball Writers’ Center at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch. Each workshop included poetry prompts about Cleveland, including favorite places, people, family memories, and growing up a Clevelander.
Poets reading include John Burroughs, Mary
Weems, Bonnie Jacobson, Adrian Schnall, Doc Janning, Barbara Hill-Newby, Bill
Newby, Bob Coughlin, Charlene Fix, David Adams, Diane Vogel Ferri, Dianne
Borsenik, Jennifer Browne, John Burroughs, Sandra Johnson, Shelley Chernin,
Timothy Richards, and Phil Metres.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
Next up: I'll be reading with these fine folk from Chicago and all over for Poetry Fusion on October 27th. So many thanks to Mark Berriman, Mark Fishbein, and After-Words Bookstore. Attend in person or for free online. Register at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/poetry-fusion-chicago-tickets-703771829487.
Featured artists: Mark Fishbein, Gary Margolis, John Burroughs, James Dennis Casey IV, Naoko Fujimoto, Shweta Rao Garg, Eric Tinsay Valles, LKN, Fin Hall, Julian Matthews, Viola Lee, Laura Grevel, Mark Berriman, Ariana Moulton, and Jaydee.
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The annual Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival happens this week, October 19th through 21st. I will attend the kickoff event on Thursday evening. Then on Friday I will man the Crisis Chronicles Press table all day at their book fair in addition to being part of a 2:30 p.m. reading by contributors to the anthology I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing (edited by Kari Gunter-Seymour) in the Ford Theater at Bliss Hall. Unfortunately, I will have to miss Saturday's events.
The 7th annual Fall Literary Festival will feature Ross Gay, Jill Christman, Alison Stine, and the Craig Paulenich Endowed Lecture on Literary Community by Lit Cleveland Executive Director Matt Weinkam. This will be an incredible conference, with thanks to our sponsors the Centofanti Foundation, the Youngstown State University Center for Working-Class Studies, WYSU-FM, the Community Foundation of the Mahoning Valley, Lake Erie Golf Cars, the Thomases Family Foundation, KO Consulting, the Grace Ruth Memorial Endowment, Ohio Humanities, the Wilkes University Master of Fine Arts, the Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts, Eastern Gateway Community College, the Ohio Arts Council and the Youngstown Foundation.
Registration for daytime events is now closed. Please join us for the free evening readings! For more information including a full schedule of events, please visit https://www.lityoungstown.org/fall-literary-festival-2023.
Join the Wild and Precious Life Series via Zoom on 18 October for a celebration of Justin Hamm's Poet Baseball Cards project. Featured poets will include Mary Biddinger, Sandra Marchetti, Rick Campbell, Tony Brewer, Michael Meyerhofer, Jack Bedell, John Burroughs, Alexis Sears, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Francine Witte, Marcus Wicker, Traci Brimhall and Curtis Crisler.
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Tune in at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/83498613088. 7:30 p.m. Eastern.
Email justinhamm2002@yahoo.com to order Poet Baseball Cards.
