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URL:https://coolcleveland.com/events/cleveland-poetry-festival-offers-read
 ing-by-noted-local-poets-and-a-bookstore-poetry-crawl/
SUMMARY:Cleveland Poetry Festival Offers Reading by Noted Local Poets and a
  Bookstore Poetry Crawl
DESCRIPTION:\nFri 4/24 @ 7-9PM\nSat 4/25 @ 10:30AM-5PM\nLiterary Cleveland
 ’s another Cleveland Poetry Festival is back\, sponsored by Mac’s Back
 s books in Coventry Village\, for five days of honoring rhythm\, rhyme and
  imagery. Its 2026 theme is “Language as Liberation\,” based on a rece
 ntly published book of lectures by Lorain\, Ohio -born Nobel Laureate Toni
  Morrison.\n“Throughout the festival\, we will explore the liberatory po
 tentialities of poetry\, literary community\, and creative writing that ac
 ross social and cultural lines as we incorporate the themes and ethics of 
 Toni Morrison's biography and art into our own work\,” they promise.\nTh
 e festival begins with a series of virtual workshops from Tuesday April 21
  through Thursday April 21.\nThe festival goes live on Friday April 24 at 
 7-9pm\, with a free reading at the Heights Theatre in Coventry Village by 
 some of this area’s most prominent poets\, including Mary Weems\, Kisha 
 Nicole Foster\, Stephanie Ginese\, Ray McNiece\, George Bilgere\, Philip M
 etres and Dave Lucas\, reading. from their work. All have won the Clevelan
 d Arts Prize. There will also be a tribute to poet Rita Dove\, a U.S. Poet
  Laureate and Pulitzer Prixer winner.\nAnd on Saturday April 25 from 10:30
 am-5pm\, the poetry festival will celebrate Independent Bookstore Day with
  a free poetry crawl taking participants to independent bookstores across 
 the city. The final event is a free reading by Scott Woods\, followed by a
 n open mic\, at Ohio City’s Visible Voice Bookstore.\nGo here for more i
 nformation.\ncleveland-poetry-festival-2026
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