Poetry Fusion Chicago 10/27 in Person and Online

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.

 

Athens, Chicago, Buffalo, Erie and Cleveland Heights the Next Two Weeks

This weekend, I hit the road again.

8/18 from around noon to 3 p.m. - Poets Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dianne Borsenik, Ivars Balkits, Jeffrey Hanson, Becca Lachman and I will share a stage at the Athens Community Arts & Music Festival in Athens, Ohio.  Read Expanded Athens Music Fest Gets Infusion of Art in The Athens News.

8/20 at 7 p.m. - I'll be the featured poet for this month's installment of the Waiting 4 the Bus: Weirdo Open Mic series at Uncharted Books in Chicago, Illinois.  

8/24 - I'll be featured poet during the 4th Friday series at Dog Ears Bookstore & Cafe in Buffalo, New York.

8/28 - I'll be featured poet during the Poetry Night series at Calamari's Squid Row in Erie, Pennsylvania.

8/30 - I'll be back in Cleveland Heights to celebrate my friend Joe Arcangelini's new NightBallet chapbook release at Mac's Backs.

I look forward to seeing you somewhere somehow.

Unfounded in New Hartford (video) and Upcoming in Amherst (and beyond)

Thanks to Meg Harris for recording this clip of me reading my poem "Unfounded" (from Loss and Foundering) on 2 June 2018 during a National Beat Poetry Festival event at the the Licia & Mason Beekley Community Library in New Hartford, Connecticut. Thanks to George Porto for the guitar accompaniment and to Linda DiMeo Lowman for posting it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/G8fbdH1oFfQ.

This Saturday, 11 August, at the Arabica Coffee Bistro in Amherst, I will have the pleasure of being the featured poet for the Poetic Expressions from the Heart Series hosted by Debra Rose. There will be a pop-up workshop at 5:30 p.m. followed by my reading at 6:00 followed by an open mic. This month their theme is Reflection. Arabica Coffee Bistro is located at 254 Park Avenue in Amherst, Ohio 44001.

Other featured readings I will give this month include:

8/18 - with Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dianne Borsenik, Ivars Balkits, Jeffrey Hanson and Becca Lachman at the Athens Community Arts & Music Festival in Athens, Ohio 
8/20 - Waiting 4 the Bus series at Uncharted Books in Chicago, Illinois 
8/24 - at Dog Ears Bookstore & Cafe in Buffalo, New York 
8/28 - at Calamari's Squid Row in Erie, Pennsylvania