You may pre-order the book for pickup or mailing at https://www.localgemspoetrypress.com/ohio-bards-preorders.html.
I'll be part of this reading on Saturday, April 4th at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch. South Euclid Poet Laureate Doc Janning will emcee. Free event. Other featured readers include Doc, Ray McNiece, and Jeremy Jusek. Register at
https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13505877.
The 2026 Sun & Moon Poetry Festival Invites Attendees to “Navigate with Poetry.”
Poets and poetry lovers are invited to explore the theme, “Navigate with Poetry,” during a weekend of writing workshops, readings, stargazing, and other activities that culminate in a celebration of poetry and the cosmos. Keynote guest Geoffrey A. Landis is an award-winning poet, science fiction writer, and scientist whose writing has appeared in more than twenty languages.
“At Glen Helen, Poetry and Nature become one in the ravine, the open sky, and our words,” said Susann Moeller, OPA First Vice President and festival chairperson.
Additional workshop leaders for the weekend are renowned poets Lauren Camp, Manuel Iris, Paula J. Lambert, and Dior J. Stephens. A special haiku hike led by Ray McNiece will offer visitors a chance to hear poems in the beautiful setting of Glen Helen Nature Preserve. The weekend also offers street poetry in downtown Yellow Springs, a haiku “death match,” native flute music, sound bathing, and an open-mic for festival attendees to share their own poetry.
"Thanks to the support of our sponsors, we have a remarkable lineup of poets and activities planned for this year's Sun & Moon Poetry Festival, which is a signature OPA event that demonstrates our commitment to expanding poetic craft and community in inclusive spaces," said Holly Brians Ragusa, OPA President.
Sponsors for the festival include the Ohio Arts Council, Full/Crescent Press, Lit Youngstown, LitCincy, Sheila-Na-Gig Editions, and Crisis Chronicles Press.
Complete festival information, a program schedule, and accommodations information is available on the OPA website at ohiopoetryassn.org/sun-moon-festival
Registration is available through April 22th at eventbrite.com/e/sun-moon-poetry-festival-tickets-1892651303999.
The Ohio Poetry Association (OPA) is a nonprofit, educational volunteer organization with a 501(c)(3) Federal designation and a member state of the National Federation of State Poetry Societies.
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Join Main Street Rag for the launch of their North Coast Voices anthology (ed. by Chuck Joy and M. Scott Douglass), in which two of my poems appear, on Saturday 14 March in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Or order here.
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Register at lityoungstown.org/winter-writing-camp.
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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.
Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/1527480008379180.
[27 October update: I ended up reading four poems at this event: “When the Bat Signal Goes Dark,” “With Breath and Without,” “A Kiss for David Johansen,” and “Add My Tears to the Bodies of Water.”]
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Many thanks to Ryki Zuckerman for the invitation!
Center for Inquiry Libraries
1310 Sweet Home Road
Amherst, New York 14228
On Sunday, 19 January 2020, I was part of a diverse cast performing a staged reading of Edgar Lee Masters' Spoon River Anthology, Selected Poems, presented by Erie County (Pennsylvania) Poet Laureate Chuck Joy at the Erie County Public Library. My part was "Theodore the Poet."
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Looking forward to returning to Erie, Pennsylvania, this Wednesday at 6 p.m. to be the featured poet for Chuck Joy's new series at Werner Books & Coffee (3608 Liberty Street).
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I very much look forward to being part of this year's National Beat Poetry Festival featuring fine poets from across the country and around the world. Labor Day weekend in Connecticut. Hope to see you there!
Friday evening's event will be held at 7 p.m. at the Canton Town Hall Auditorium, 4 Market Street, Collinsville, CT.
Saturday's and Sunday's events will be held at 22 River Road, Barkhamsted, CT.
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Barnes & Noble
University Town Center
2814 University Town Center Drive
Morgantown, WV 26501
(304) 599-1294
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Very much looking forward to sharing the stage with Jennifer Browne on Tuesday 7/15 during Poetry Speaks Dog Days at the Bokeh Lounge in Evansville, Indiana, before heading south to Vicksburg, Mississippi, and then west to Albuquerque, New Mexico, for the National Federation of State Poetry Societies' annual conference.
Picnic begins at 12:30 p.m. in the park's Johnson Wetlands Center.
Preceded at 10 a.m. by OPA's quarterly business meeting (all members welcome).
6195 Otten Road
North Ridgeville, Ohio 44039
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This Thursday, July 3rd, I'll have the distinct pleasure of reading with the amazing Michael Salinger and Shelley Chernin during Open Air Poets on the lawn outside the Coventry Village branch library in Cleveland Heights.
So many thanks to Mac's Backs-Books and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Public Libraries.
From Dr. Moeller's write up: "Besides a declared national Pride and Black Lives Matter Month, June has also been declared the Rebuild your Life Month and June 28 in particular commemorates the Ukraine Constitution Day in the United States. EOW’s poets address the reasons for those dedications and our collective as well as individual experiences with them - emotionally, culturally, socio-economically, geographically, and politically — whether hard to digest or comforting, we are looking at them under the magnifying glass of poetry which serves as yet another tool to promote inquiry, curiosity, ethics, and compassion."
ComFest happens at Goodale Park, W. Goodale Street, 43215. For more information, including the full three-day schedule, please visit https://www.comfest.com/comfest-2025/.
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Tune in at https://sinclair.zoom.us/j/83689495716.
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April 5th, I had the privilege of being part of A Gathering of Laurels III at the Skirball Writers Center of the South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, along with recent Ohio Beat Poet Laureate Sandra Feen, current Parma Poet Laureate Jeremy Jusek, current Lucas County Poet Laureate Jonie McIntire, and current South Euclid and recent Cuyahoga County Poet Laureate Doc Janning. Here is the video, recorded and edited by Andy Matovic.
The poems I read (beginning at the 15-minute mark) are "Bully for You," 17 September 1966," "A Kiss for David Johansen," "Aim High," and "Needful Things," all written in March of this year during the Tupelo Press 30/30.
