Sun 4/24-Sun 5/1
The upcoming week is a feast for poets, would-be poets and those readers passionate about poetry. Literary Cleveland, with Cleveland State University Poetry Center and Grieveland, is hosting the first week-long Lakefront Cleveland Poetry Festival. It features a series of programs on Zoom with both local and national poets and editors who will talk about writing, editing and publishing your work.
The week launches on Sunday April 24 with a State of Poetry Panel and Presenters’ Read. Workshop leaders and poets Quartez Harris, Kaveh Akbar, Ariana Brown, and Valerie Hsiung will talk about how they develop their work and read some of it, placing it in the context of the state of poetry today.
Other panels cover topics such as “New Again: Generative Sonnet Form” (Monday April 25), “The Word Dropped Like a Stone: Sacred Poetics Under the Reign of the Money God” (Tuesday April 26), “love, Names & Odes” (Wednesday April 27) and “Poetry as Architecture (Thursday April 28).
There’s a Cleveland poets showcase and open mic on Friday April 29, an editor roundtable on publishing on Saturday April 30 and a CSU Poetry Center Lighthouse Reading to wrap things up on Sunday May 1, an in-person event at Superelectric Pinball Parlor in Gordon Square, which doesn’t require registration.
You can sign up for a single session or the entire week. Registration deadline is Friday April 22. Go here to register.
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