2022-2023 U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate and Crisis Chronicles Press publisher
Friday, July 12, 2024
Back in the Saddle in July: Evansville, Insomniacathon & WV Writers
Thursday, June 27, 2024
June 29th: M.J. Arcangelini & Friends and Ground & Sky Poetry
I'll have the pleasure of being a small part of this very special event on Saturday, June 29th, 2024 from 5:00pm to 7:30pm at Mac's Backs Books on Coventry. Joe Arcangelini is a fine poet and friend.
From the press release:
Mac's will host a gathering of poets with readings by MJ Arcangelini and Joel Lesses on Saturday, June 29th at 5 p.m. The event is also a book release celebration for Journeys of Sacred Community: A Collection Anthology of Ground and Sky Poetry
MJ Arcangelini, born in Pennsylvania in 1952, has resided in northern California since 1979. He has published in many magazines, online journals & over a dozen anthologies. He is the author of six published collections, including Pawning My Sins publlished in 2022 by Luchador Press.
Ground and Sky Poetry is a reading series in Buffalo and Rochester, NY and was inspired by the late poet Maj Ragain from Kent.
Joel David Lesses is a counselor and the founder of Education Training Center in Buffalo, dedicated to reframing mental health distress as a potential spiritual marker and existential opportunity. He also does the Unraveling Religion podcast which focuses on spirituality, world religion, meditation and poetry.
Other poets scheduled to read include Dianne Borsenik, Chris Franke, Russ Vidrick, Steven Smith, Kathy “Lady” Smith, John Burroughs, Shelley Chernin, Ben Gulyas, Adam Brodsky, Steve Goldberg, Steve Thomas, Scott Silsbe and Chandra "Peggy Honeydew" Alderman.
Mac's Backs
1820 Coventry Rd.
Cleveland Heights, OH 44118
https://www.macsbacks.com
Sunday, June 2, 2024
New work in VOICES 2024: D.R. Wagner Memorial Issue
Grateful for the opportunity to be a contributor to this wondrous volume celebrating our friend D.R. Wagner. Thank you, Dave Boles and Cold River Press!
From the editor:
Friday, April 26, 2024
May 8th: Burroughs, Jusek and Minney at Mac's Backs Books
ABOUT JEREMY JUSEK
1820 Coventry Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
216-321-2665
www.macsbacks.com
Monday, April 22, 2024
My voice appears in Fin Hall's new Gary Snyder tribute film
Honored to be a spectral voice reciting a stanza by Gary Snyder in this new film by Fin Hall. Find me around the 11.50 mark.
Permalink: https://youtu.be/ZN-BhRoMoTY.
Sunday, March 31, 2024
April 6th in South Euclid: A Gathering of Laurels II
A Gathering of Laurels II
Ohio Poets Laureate read from their work for National Poetry Month
on Saturday, April 06, 2024 from
2:00pm to 3:30pm EDT
at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library.
Join us as Poets Laureate from around Ohio share their work. Doc
Janning, the Inaugural Poet Laureate of the City of South Euclid, will
emcee the event. Books will be available for sale and signing, and we'll
celebrate with light refreshments.
Featured poets:
John Burroughs, Beat Poet Laureate Emeritus of Ohio and the U.S.
Sandra Feen, Beat Poet Laureate of Ohio
Doc Janning, Inaugural Poet Laureate of South Euclid and Third Poet
Laureate of Cuyahoga County
Jeremy Jusek, Poet Laureate of Parma
Jonie McIntire, Poet Laureate of Lucas County
Ray McNiece, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cleveland Heights
Dr. Mary Weems, Poet Laureate Emeritus of Cleveland Heights
https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/9574197
Writers Center Conference Room
South Euclid, Ohio 44121
Thursday, March 28, 2024
Video of The Muse's Mic: Ep 3. A conversation with John Burroughs
Sunday, March 24, 2024
Tune in on 3/27 for the The Muse's Mic, Episode 3, feat. John Burroughs
Conversations with Creative Minds: Writers, Musicians, visual artists, and more.
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvdeqppjMiGdeh_WfpUoojn_AOY02zmbHu
https://www.facebook.com/spofest/live/
Wednesday, March 13, 2024
Two pieces in Night Owl Narrative (a Cajun Mutt rag) No.3
Order your copy here:
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0CVF469HX.
Thursday, February 15, 2024
Three Poems in the New Issue of Tinfoildresses
Download the issue for free at https://tinfoildresses.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/tinfoildresses-2024-2.pdf.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Two poems published in Steel Jackdaw
So happy to have two of my poems ("If You Need a God, Make It Earth" and "Faithwalking") published in the beautiful January issue of the U.K.-based magazine Steel Jackdaw. So many thanks to Editor-in-Chief Jason Conway!
A e-book is available for £4.95 at https://www.steeljackdaw.com/edition-13.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
February 15th on Zoom: I Thought I Heard a Cardinal Sing
My first appearance of 2024 will be on February 15th when the Spoken & Heard series, hosted by the Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens, Ohio, will present a reading by twenty contributors to the award-winning anthology I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing: Ohio's Appalachian Voices (edited by Ohio Poet Laureate Kari Gunter-Seymour and published by Sheila-Na-Gig). We hope you'll tune in.