Sat 1/24 @ 7:30PM

The Deep Cleveland Poets is a loose organization of local poets, most affiliated with a small press of the same name. As with many white male northeast Ohio poets, many of them seem to have a reverence for the Beat poets, and especially Cleveland’s personal post-Beat poet, the legendary d.a. levy, who died by suicide in 1968 at age 26—something bound to increase one’s legendariness.

A group of these poets, most of whom have published numerous chapbooks of their work, will be back at the new Visible Voice Books location in Ohio City for an evening of readings. They include Miles Budimir, one of the better known of this group; Joshuea Gage, who describes himself as an “ornery curmudgeon” and a Jack Kerouac disciple; Medina-based Mark S. Kuhar, a writer, poet, artist and songwriter with six chapbooks to his credit including the evocatively named “laughing in the ruins of chippewa lake park”; science fiction writer and poet J.E. Stanley; and the widely published dan smith, whose poems were included in d.a. levy and the Digital Revolution. If that doesn’t make clear the connection of these poets to levy, the copious use of lower-case letters should.

The reading is free and open to all.

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