Grand Finale Poetry Event in Avon Lake Tonight
Featured poets Sammy Greenspan and Kazim Ali — plus open mic — what's not to like? We've had a great run and I'll be sad to see it end, but I'll be very glad to see you there. Check out our event page on Facebook.
Kazim Ali is is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque (Alice James Books), winner of Alice James Books' New England/New York Award, and The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008). He is also the author of the novel Quinn’s Passage (blazeVox books), named one of "The Best Books of 2005" by Chronogram magazine; The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan Press, 2009); Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009); Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence (University of Michigan Press, 2010), and Fasting for Ramadan (Tupelo Press, 2011).
He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College and teaches in the low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine. His work has been featured in many national journals such as Best American Poetry 2007, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, jubilat and Massachusetts Review. He teaches at Oberlin College and the Stonecoast MFA program and is a founding editor of Nightboat Books. Find him online at http://kazimali.com.
Director of the Pudding House Salon-Cleveland poetry workshop, Sammy Greenspan edited the workshop's recently published chapbook anthology, What I Knew Before I Knew. You may find her poems online in Del Sol Review and In Posse Review — and in various journals. Her chapbook Step Back from the Closing Doors (Pudding House, 2009) was a Pushcart nominee. Her Greatest Hits chapbook was also published by Pudding House. In 2010 Sammy founded Kattywompus Press, where she took over the Poet's Greatest Hits line.
Visit the Avon Lake Public Library at http://alpl.org/
and http://www.facebook.com/avonlakepubliclibrary
Poets of Lorain County: http://www.facebook.com/loraincountypoets
Kazim Ali is is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque (Alice James Books), winner of Alice James Books' New England/New York Award, and The Fortieth Day (BOA Editions, 2008). He is also the author of the novel Quinn’s Passage (blazeVox books), named one of "The Best Books of 2005" by Chronogram magazine; The Disappearance of Seth (Etruscan Press, 2009); Bright Felon: Autobiography and Cities (Wesleyan University Press, 2009); Orange Alert: Essays on Poetry, Art and the Architecture of Silence (University of Michigan Press, 2010), and Fasting for Ramadan (Tupelo Press, 2011).
He is an assistant professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College and teaches in the low-residency MFA program of the University of Southern Maine. His work has been featured in many national journals such as Best American Poetry 2007, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, Barrow Street, jubilat and Massachusetts Review. He teaches at Oberlin College and the Stonecoast MFA program and is a founding editor of Nightboat Books. Find him online at http://kazimali.com.
Director of the Pudding House Salon-Cleveland poetry workshop, Sammy Greenspan edited the workshop's recently published chapbook anthology, What I Knew Before I Knew. You may find her poems online in Del Sol Review and In Posse Review — and in various journals. Her chapbook Step Back from the Closing Doors (Pudding House, 2009) was a Pushcart nominee. Her Greatest Hits chapbook was also published by Pudding House. In 2010 Sammy founded Kattywompus Press, where she took over the Poet's Greatest Hits line.
Visit the Avon Lake Public Library at http://alpl.org/
and http://www.facebook.com/av
Poets of Lorain County: http://www.facebook.com/loraincountypoets
Posted by Jesus Crisis at 5/19/2011 12:08 PM 
Categories: Cleveland, Poetry Events
Tags: Kazim Ali Sammy Greenspan Avon Lake Poets of Lorain County Oberlin
Categories: Cleveland, Poetry Events
Tags: Kazim Ali Sammy Greenspan Avon Lake Poets of Lorain County Oberlin
Sorry I will miss this... I hope perhaps another series in another great location will fill it's place sometime in the future.
peace...
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did you video tape?
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Unfortunately, no.
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why?
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