
poster by Dianne Borsenik
THIS JUST IN: Effective immediately, the
Lix and Kix poetry series
Dianne Borsenik and I host at
Bela Dubby in Lakewood is moving to the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Tuesday was never our preferred day - we only took it in the first place because that was the only day our first venue, the 806 in Tremont, would give us their space - and we only kept it because we figured people were already used to our having Lix and Kix on a Tuesday. But I've been itching to change the day for some time now - largely because there are two other very worthy poetry events that happen around Cleveland on the 3rd Tuesday of each month: the
Nia Coffeehouse at the Coventry Village Library and (during the school year, at least) the
CSU Poetry Center's longstanding reading series. Moving to the 3rd Wednesday allows us to complement and support these other fine venues instead of competing with them. And this makes me happy.
Here are a few upcoming happenings I hope you'll check out:
Thursday 11 February 2010 at 7 p.m. — John Burroughs will be featured poet at Dunkin' Donuts on State Rt. 303 in Brunswick, Ohio, hosted by the Brunswick Art Works. An open mic will follow.
Wednesday 17 February 2010 at 7 p.m. —
J.E. Stanley (co-author, with Joshua Gage, of the newly released
Intrinsic Night, from Sam's Dot Press),
Jack McGuane (Poet Laureate of Lakewood and author of
Sleeping with My Socks, from deep cleveland press), and
Roger Craik (author of the just published
Of England Still, from Finishing Line Press) will be featured poets during the Lix and Kix poetry extravaganza at
Bela Dubby, 13321 Madison Ave. in Lakewood, Ohio. An open mic will follow.
Wednesday 17 March 2010 at 7 p.m. — The 2nd annual Lix and Kix St. Patrick's Day extravaganza will feature
Trenchcoat Manifesto (poetry and music by Tom Adams and Richard Hearn), Michigan performance poet
Zach Ashley, and Cleveland Heights' very own
Sammy Greenspan (author of
Step Back from the Closing Doors, from Pudding House Publications) at
Bela Dubby, 13321 Madison Ave. in Lakewood, Ohio. An open mic will follow.
Saturday 27 March 2010 from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. — The 2nd annual
Feed the Gays benefit for the Cleveland State University GLASA (Gay, Lesbian And Straight Alliance) scholarship fund will feature an art show and an eclectic array of poetic and musical performers including
Dianne Borsenik and John "Jesus Crisis" Burroughs at the Bounce Night Club & Union Station Cafe located at 2814 Detroit Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio.
Friday 2 April 2010 at 6:30 p.m. —
Dianne Borsenik and John Burroughs will be featured performers during the
Ohio Poetry Association's poetry & music series at the
New Beginnings Cafe, 141 East Center Street in Marion, Ohio. An open mic will follow.
Oh, and I've uploaded about 300 of my photos from Snoetry: A Winter Wordfest (which Dianne and I co-hosted on 16 January at the Last Wordsmith Book Shoppe in North East, PA) to
my Facebook profile, in case you're interested in having a look.
Peace and poetry,
John
1/19/2010
eye poor
visor
miser
Kublai Kaiser
upriser
downplayer
grayer
and grayer
and eventually gayer
with or without
your little pills
landfills
achtung hills
bone mills
TV swill
Jack and Jill Amityvilles
three and a half Mendelssohns
Camp Pendeltons
up end someone
and call him me if you will