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Join the Ohio Poetry Association on November 15th from 10 to 4:30 at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch for an absolutely free Ohio Poetry Publishing Conference. Registration and more details at https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294.
Get Sharp! will include an Ohio small press book fair and fab workshop presentations by Dianne Borsenik, Geoff Anderson, Michael Salinger, and Susan Grimm.
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!
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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.
This Saturday, 12/14, at noon Eastern on Zoom, I will be one of three Cleveland poets (the others are Judith Mansour & Dianne Borsenik) participating in a Poets Building Bridges event hosted by the Walt Whitman Birthplace Association.
Flowers of Litter poets Mimi German, Karlostheunhappy, & Pankhuri Sinha - and Bolton UK poets Dave Morgan, Linda Downs, David Wigmore & Laura Taylor - will also be sharing their work. So many thanks to WWBA Writer-in-Residence George Wallace for creating this world poetry triangulation project and for including us.
More info: https://www.waltwhitman.org/event/poets-building-bridges-december-14-2024-flower-litter-poets-bolton-uk-cleveland-poets/.
If you miss it, a recording of the event will be archived on the WWBA's YouTube channel.
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
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Here's a recent Muskingum News write-up about it: Dr. Varley Brings Poet Laureates to Class.
Tuesday December 13th at 7 pm Eastern I will have the privilege of reading with Cincinnati Poet Laureate Yalie Saweda Kamara for this Flamingo Writers Guild series hosted by Parma Poet Laureate Jeremy Jusek. We'd love for you to tune in and share something during the open mic.
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I am so looking forward to seeing friends and sharing poetry at the following special events in the next several weeks.
30 July 2022 in Portsmouth, Ohio
Noise Complaint at the Warehouse
will feature live music by D.J. Everman, Commercial Television, and Soft Pain, plus poetry by Dianne Borsenik, John Burroughs, and Tony
Brewer. 2134 Gallia Street Apt. B, 45662.
31 July 2022 at 6 p.m. in Cincinnati, Ohio
Word of Mouth Cincinnati presents a reading by John Burroughs plus open mic at MOTR Pub, 1345 Main Street, 45202.
2 August 2022 at 5:30 p.m. in South Euclid, Ohio
South
Euclid poets including Doc Janning, Raja Belle Freeman, Amy Kesegich, Shelley
Chernin, Michael Ceraolo, Adrian Schnall, Amanda Terman and John Burroughs will read during the annual Bexley Bash at
Bexley Park, 1630 Wrenford Road, 44121.
6 August 2022 in Erie, Pennsylvania
Poetry during Erie's Blues & Jazz Festival will feature poets including Thasia Anne, Chuck Joy, Mabel Howard, Niecy Nicole, Dianne Borsenik, John Burroughs and an open mic at Frontier Park, 1501 W. 6th Street, 16505.
2 thru 4 September 2022 in New Hartford, Connecticut
The National and International Beat Poetry Festival
will feature poets from around the world and John Burroughs will be
officially christened the U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate for
2022-2023.
10 September 2022 at 4 p.m. in Toledo, Ohio
Uncloistered Poetry presents readings by Pauletta Hansel, Mary Biddinger, Lylanne
Musselman, Miles Budimir and John Burroughs, hosted by Lucas County Poet
Laureate Jonie McIntire at The Attic, 1701 Adams Street, 43604.
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7 p.m.
Marietta College
McDonough Auditorium
215 Fifth Street
Marietta, Ohio 45750
Or subscribe to our entire 2022 series (at least ten titles, plus a surprise or two) for $100 with free shipping.
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—Richard Lopez, co-editor of the
anthology The End of the World Project
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—Dianne
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NightBallet Press
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