I look forward to reading with Jeremy Jusek and Barbara Marie Minney on May 8th, 7 p.m. at Mac's Backs-Books On Coventry in Cleveland Heights.
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ABOUT BARBARA MARIE MINNEY
Barbara
Marie Minney is a transgender woman, award winning poet, writer,
speaker, teaching artist, and quiet activist. Her poetry and essays have
appeared in numerous publications, including Politico, The Buckeye
Flame, The Gasconade Review, Gargoyle Magazine, The Pine Cone Review,
Women Speak: Women of Appalachia Project, Woman Scream: The
International Poetry Anthology of Female Voices, and I Thought I Heard A
Cardinal Sing, Ohio’s Appalachian Voices. Barbara’s poetry has also
been translated into Spanish. She is the author of If There’s No
Heaven, the winner of the 2020 Poetry Is Life Book Award and an Akron
Beacon Journal Best Northeast Ohio Book in 2020; the "Poetic Memoir
Chapbook Challenge;" "Dance Naked With God;" and "A Woman in Progress."
Barbara is a retired attorney and a seventh generation Appalachian and
lives in Tallmadge, Ohio, with her wife of over 42 years and a menagerie
of stuffed animals. You can follow Barbara at https://www.barbaramarieminneypoetry.com.
ABOUT JEREMY JUSEK
Jeremy
is the poet laureate of Parma, Ohio. He earned his MFA in Creative
Writing from Arcadia University and chemistry/theatre degrees from
Marietta College. He has authored more than a half-dozen plays and three
poetry collections: We Grow Tomatoes in Tiny Towns (Unsolicited Press,
2019), The Less-Traveled Street (Maverick Duck Press, 2022), and The
Details Will Be Gone Soon (ELJ Editions, 2023). He hosts the Ohio Poetry
Association's podcast Poetry Spotlight, runs the West Side Poetry
Workshop, teaches through Literary Cleveland, and founded the Flamingo
Writers’ Guild. To learn more, please visit www.jeremyjusek.com.
Mac' Backs
1820 Coventry Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
216-321-2665
www.macsbacks.com
1820 Coventry Road
Cleveland Heights, Ohio
216-321-2665
www.macsbacks.com
