Welcome to POETRY +, a monthly reading series hosted by Art on Madison for emerging and established writers in Cleveland and the surrounding regions. Each month, POETRY + aims to shine the spotlight on two great writers (ideally one from out of town and one local), providing them with the platform and time necessary to present a body of their work and to connect with their audience. Each presenter is given the freedom to decide which materials and anecdotes they will share. POETRY + is open to all forms of poetry, short and flash fiction, and performative happenings. POETRY + typically occurs on the 3rd Tuesday of each month, and is currently curated by 2019-2021 Ohio Beat Poet Laureate John Burroughs.
Doors open at 7:00 pm, and the reading begins at 7:30 pm. POETRY + is free and open to the public.
** WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS AT THIS TIME. BUT PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER FOR UPDATES.
Doors open at 7:00 pm, and the reading begins at 7:30 pm. POETRY + is free and open to the public.
** WE ARE NOT ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS AT THIS TIME. BUT PLEASE CHECK BACK LATER FOR UPDATES.
August 20, 2019: Philip Terman & Sandra Feen
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Philip Terman is the author of five full-length and four chapbook collections of poems, including, most recently, Our Portion: New and Selected Poems (Autumn House Press) and Like a Bird Entering a Window and Leaving Through Another Window, a hand-sewn collaboration with the artist James Stewart and bookbinder Susan Frakes. His poems have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Poetry Magazine, The Kenyon Review, The Georgia Review, The Sun Magazine, Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine, and 99 Poems for the 99 Percent. A selection of his poems, My Dear Friend Kafka, has been translated into Arabic and published by Ninwa Press in Damascus, Syria. He’s a professor of English at Clarion University, where he directs the Spoken Art Reading Series. He is founder of the Chautauqua Writers’ Festival and coordinator of The Bridge Literary and Arts Center in Franklin, PA. Terman’s poems provided the text for three song cycles composed by Dr. Brent Register and, on occasion, performs his poetry with the jazz band, The Barkeyville Triangle. Though he now resides in Clarion, Terman was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. More information can be found at www.philipterman.com.
Sandra Feen, the author of Fragile Capacites (2018, NightBallet Press), is a former associate editor of Pudding Magazine and currently works as an independent poetry and urban fiction editor. A member of the poetry troupe Concrete Wink, she has a BFA in Creative Writing and a BS in English Education from Bowling Green State University, and an MA in Literature from Wright State University. She was one of twelve teachers selected for the National Endowment of the Arts' first "Change Course" program, through W.S.U.'s Institute on Writing and Its Teaching. Publications include Poetry Motel, Elastic Ekphrastic, and The Pudding House Gang. Her work has been commissioned as part of Thin Places: Poetry and Art Exhibits and Installations at Columbus, Ohio's Jung Haus, and for the Cap City Poets: Columbus and Central Ohio's Best Known, Read, and Requested Poets anthology. She lives in Grove City, Ohio. http://nightballetpress.blogspot.com/2018/10/sandra-feen-has-fragile-capacities.html. |
