A Confluence of Poems: 2025 Edith Chase Reading, May 16th at Kent State

Grateful to be part of this reading and have two poems ("Tenacity" and a revised version of "Falls") in this anthology.

So many thanks to RC Wilson and the Edith Chase Symposium Association!

Friday 16 May 2025 at 4 p.m., poets from all over Ohio will gather for a dramatic reading on the theme of tributaries. There will be music, and an anthology of the poems performed will be available at the reading.

Kent State College of Architecture + Environmental Design
132 S. Lincoln Street
Kent, Ohio 44240

More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/1007338138041745.

To procure a copy of A Confluence of Poems, contact RC Wilson at rcwilsonii@gmail.com.

Diana Lueptow features Monday June 1st at Mahall's guest hosted by Ray McNiece and his Tongue-in-Groove band

Join us Monday at Mahall's for a reading by featured poet Diana Lueptow!
 

Diana Lueptow

Diana Lueptow lives in Akron, Ohio. Her poems have appeared in FIELD, Arion, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, The Stinging Fly, and Verse Daily, and her chapbook Little Nest was chosen by Peter Campion for the Wick Chapbook Prize (2015, Kent State University Press). She received a 2014 Individual Excellence grant from the Ohio Arts Council. She earned an MA in English from the University of Akron and an MFA from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.

 
Ray McNiece his Tongue-in-Groove band will host this month. Following the features, we'll open the mic and invite you to spit a poem accompanied by the band.

Ray McNiece and Tongue-in-Groove