A poetry walk provides 4 more good reasons to join us on May 15-17 in Yellow Springs for the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival! Featured poets Aimee Noel, Zach Hannah, Deborah Strozier, and Cathryn Essinger will be stationed in various locations downtown.
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Another exciting reason to join us on May 15-17 in Yellow Springs for the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival is a haiku hike with Ray McNiece.
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The author of Bone Key Sutra, He has toured Italy with Ferlinghetti and was Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights.
Another fine reason to join us on May 15-17 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, for the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival is workshop leader Manuel Iris. Iris is an award-winning, Mexican-born, bilingual American poet who has served as Poet Laureate of Cincinnati.
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Another compelling reason to join us on May 15-17 in Yellow Springs, Ohio, for the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival is workshop leader Paula J. Lambert.
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Birds of prey will be the focus for this generative poetry workshop at the Glen Helen Raptor Center.
Another reason to join us on May 15-17 in Yellow Springs for the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival is workshop leader Dior J. Stephens.
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They're the author of ATOMIC I & CRUEL/CRUEL with fellowships from Cave Canem, Sewanee, and Lambda Literary Foundation
So much in the world is a mess. But thank goodness for books.
War of the Foxes by Richard Siken (2015, Copper Canyon),
Slag by Aimee Noel (2025, Sheila-Na-Gig),
Breathing Spaces by Anna Soter (2018, Kelsay),
The Life and Adventures of Jack Engle: The Lost Novel of Walt Whitman (2017, U of Iowa).
Another great reason to join us on May 15-17 at the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival in Yellow Springs is Lauren Camp. Camp was the 2nd New Mexico Poet Laureate. Her works include In Old Sky, winner of the New Mexico Book Award, and Is Is Enough.
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Join us May 15-17 in Yellow Springs for the Sun & Moon Poetry Festival, including a keynote reading/workshop by @geoffrey-landis.bsky.social, a scientist who's won the Hugo and Nebula awards for science fiction and Rhysling award (3x) for poetry.
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Join Ohioana for the next event in their “100 Years of Ohio Authors” series sponsored by @gcac_cbus!
On April 27 at 7 pm via Zoom, we celebrate past and present Ohio poets as Aimee Nezhukumatathil discusses Mary Oliver and more with @mothergusa.bsky.social: www.eventbrite.com/e/100-years-...
Super grateful these have found their way into my hands during National Poetry Month:
No Sea Here by Dana Henry Martin (2026, Moon in the Rye),
CRUEL/CRUEL by Dior J. Stephens (2023, Nightboat),
The Paris Review (Spring 2026),
After Image by Jenny George (2024, Copper Canyon).
Glad to have picked these up at the Beachwood library book sale recently!
Wonderful to have the opportunity to hear and read with poets Dianne Borsenik, Jeremy Jusek, Ray McNiece, and Doc Janning today during the fourth annual A Gathering of Laurels at the fab South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library.
Thank you, Dave, for these goodies!
Snapshot Poetics by Allen Ginsberg,
A Day with Picasso by Klüver/Cocteau,
Beautiful Losers by Leonard Cohen,
With William Burroughs: A Report by Victor Bockris,
Tales of Beatnik Glory by Ed Sanders,
Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings by Jack Kerouac
Glad to have grabbed these at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst library book sale last week.
This is from back in August, but I just found it yesterday: a fine interview with Richard Siken on Breaking Form: A Poetry and Culture Podcast.
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The Ohio Poetry Association is pleased to be a Community Partner with Gramercy Books Bexley for this special National Poetry Month event featuring award-winning poets @amitmajmudar.bsky.social, Hussain Ahmed, and Paula J. Lambert on April 16th.
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"There's no bread
Let them eat Cake."
There's no end to what they'll take.
[Neil Peart, Rush]
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#NoKings
“The more incompetent one feels, the more eager he is to fight.” —Dostoevsky
Yes, I am very pleased about this.
Join the Ohio Poetry Assn. on Saturday, April 11th, for our quarterly business meeting & a National Poetry Month Workshop Double Feature with Jennifer Hambrick - “Beyond the Death Match: How to Write Haiku … Really” and “Let’s Change the Subject.” Details and register: www.ohiopoetryassn.org/events
I'll be part of this reading on Saturday, April 4th at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch. Poet Laureate @docjanning.bsky.social will emcee. Free event. Register at attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13505877.
Our OPA Sun & Moon Poetry Festival will be out of this world! Join us in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in May to "Navigate with Poetry" for workshops with Geoffrey A. Landis, Manuel Iris, Lauren Camp, Dior J. Stephens, Paula J. Lambert, Ray McNiece & more. Register at www.ohiopoetryassn.org/sun-moon-fes...
Join Main Street Rag for the launch of their North Coast Voices anthology, in which two of my poems appear, on Saturday 14 March in Erie, Pennsylvania.
Or order here: mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/nort...
