Tuesday November 19, 2013
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Bertram Woods Branch
20600 Fayette Road | Shaker Heights, Ohio
44122 | 216.991.2421
Kathleen
Cerveny, poet and visual artist is the current Poet Laureate of Cleveland
Heights. Since 1991 Kathleen has been the Director of Arts Initiatives for the
Cleveland Foundation, the country’s oldest and first community foundation. She
is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art and has exhibited her ceramics
locally and nationally. From 1987-90 she was Cleveland Public Radio’s producer
and broadcast journalist for the arts, winning more than 15 top awards and
producing many features for National Public Radio. Her poems have appeared in
the Southern New Hampshire University Journal: Amoskeag, the e-journal: Shaking
Like a Mountain, and in journals published by Pudding House Press, among
others. She is Cleveland’s former Haiku champion (2009-10) and is in the
process of completing her MFA in Poetry from the University of Southern Maine:
Stonecoast Creative Writing Program (July 2014). Most recently, a poem of
Kathleen’s was selected for inclusion in an anthology published by Future Cycle
Press: Poems for Malala Yousafzai.
Catherine
Criswell is a poet who resides in Shaker Heights, Ohio. Her poems have
appeared in various publications, including the Great Lakes Review, Muse
Magazine, and the Hessler Street Fair anthologies. She is a member of the
Cleveland Puddinghouse Salon, a writer`s workshop group, and two of her poems
will appear in its 2013 anthology produced by Kattywompus Press. In 2013, she
began hosting the Monday at Mahall`s Poetry & Prose Series at Mahall`s 20
Lanes in Lakewood, Ohio, one Monday per month. She also annually hosts the
Cleveland edition of the 100,000 Poets for Change global movement at Visible
Voice Books. In addition, she serves as a guest contributor to
Clevelandpoetics.com. She also performs her poetry at Mac`s Backs and The
Barking Spider. Photo by Michael Spear Photography.
Brad
Ricca was born in Cleveland and is a SAGES Fellow at Case Western
Reserve University. His first book of poems, American Mastodon (Black Lawrence
Press, 2011), won the St. Lawrence Book Award and was featured on A Writer`s
Almanac by Garrison Keillor. It was also named a "Best of Cleveland"
in 2012. He has also written a book about the creators of Superman titled Super
Boys (St. Martin`s Press, 2013).
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