Poetry Plus at
Art on Madison will triple your pleasure in January with readings by two acclaimed featured poets -
Chuck Salmons and
Renay Sanders - plus an open mic. Doors open at 7 p.m.
A native of Columbus, Ohio,
Chuck Salmons is a poet and currently President of the
Ohio Poetry Association. He earned a B.A. from Otterbein College and a M.A. from Northern Michigan University.
Chuck's poems have appeared in several journals and anthologies, including
Pudding Magazine,
Evening Street Review,
Olentangy Review,
Common Threads,
The Fib Review,
Red Thread Gold Thread,
Everything Stops and Listens, and
Appleseeds. His chapbook,
Stargazer Suite, was released in December 2016 and is available from 11th Hour Press. His second chapbook,
Patch Job, was published by NightBallet Press in 2017.
He won the 2011 William Redding Memorial Poetry Contest, sponsored by The Poetry Forum of Columbus, and has garnered awards from Ohio Poetry Day. Most recently, he is a recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award for his poetry. Chuck regularly gives readings throughout Ohio, both solo and as part of the poetry trio
Concrete Wink. He also leads workshops for various groups and audiences.
Chuck has worked in a variety of fields, including construction, education, and retail. He loves science, which often influences his poems, and is thrilled about the discovery of water on Mars and gravitational waves. He works as a science editor in Columbus.
S. Renay Sanders learned to love the spoken word amidst a family of storytellers. She began secretly writing her own stories as poems. She came out of the poetry closet in 2010 with a poem in the
Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology. She subsequently had poems published in a variety of anthologies. Her most recent accomplishment is the publication of her first chapbook,
Dancing in Place. Coming full circle, she has ventured into storytelling and proudly performed her story "Cemetery Run" in the Women of Appalachia Project, Spoken Word, 2019. Today she proudly lives the poetic lifestyle. Continuing to enjoy the local poetry scene as an open mic-er and occasional feature. A native Clevelander, her poems are inspired by the characters she encounters in life and the beauty of the Cuyahoga Valley, where she now resides.
Open mic to follow the features, emceed by Ohio Beat Poet Laureate
John Burroughs.
Please note: Poetry+ usually happens on the third Tuesday of each month. For more information, visit our website at
https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com.
Other upcoming Poetry+ features:
2/18 - Bill Yarrow (Chicago) & Laura Grace Weldon (Litchfield)
3/17 - Leah Mueller (Tacoma WA) & Rikki Santer (Columbus)
