Join us on November 15th at the South Euclid library for our FREE Get Sharp! Poetry Publishing Conference, sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association. Register at attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294 Meet our workshop leaders: Geoff Anderson, Michael Salinger, Susan Grimm, and Dianne Borsenik.

New on our blog! So many thanks to our NW Ohio Regional Poet Ambassador, Sandra Rivers-Gill: ohiopoetryassn.blogspot.com/2025/11/opa-...

It was a distinct pleasure to read with Susan Nusbaum and be part of such a warm and bright group of folks at the Center for Inquiry in Amherst, New York, last night. Thanks so much to Ryki Zuckerman for hosting (and taking these photos). Viva the Literary Café at CFI!

I was happy to discover these seven issues of The Smith from the early '70s at Paper Peddlars in South Euclid last week. The Smith was published by poet Harry Smith in New York from 1964 to 1974. These are special issues 10, 15, 17, 19, 20, 22-23, and 29. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_S...

Poet David Adams reads at Protect Geauga Parks' Heroes of Conservation event this afternoon.

Join us November 15th from 10 to 4:30 at the Cuyahoga County Public Library's South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch for our free Get Sharp! 2025 Ohio Poetry Publishing Conference. Registration and more details at attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294. Sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association.

A marvelous night of poetry yesterday at the McConnell Arts Center, hosted by @ohiopoetry.bsky.social, spearheaded by Susann Moeller and emceed by Zach Hannah. I donated Crisis Chronicles Press titles by Ohio-connected authors as prizes. Thanks to everyone who came out!

Thursday 10/30 at the Peggy R. McConnell Arts Center of Worthington, hosted by the Ohio Poetry Association. mcconnellarts.org/calendar/wit...

More books brought home in recent daze: Asylum by Jill Bialosky, A Gathering of Poets ed. by Maggie Anderson & Alex Gildzen, Blind Horse by Jeanne Bryner, Grief Songs by Jack Foley, Wade in the Water by Tracy K. Smith, Clamor by Elyse Fenton.

I'm pleased that two of my poems will appear in North Coast Voices 2025: Poems of the Great Lakes, edited by Chuck Joy and M Scott Douglass for Main Street Rag Publishing. So many good poets between these covers. Advance sale discount price is only $10 at mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/nort...

Still time to register for November 15th's Get Sharp! 2025 Ohio Poetry Publishing Conference, featuring workshops by Dianne Borsenik, Geoff Anderson, Michael Salinger, and Susan Grimm; hosted by the Ohio Poetry Association at the South Euclid library. FREE. attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294

New on our blog! So many thanks to our SW Ohio Regional Poet Ambassador, Manuel Iris: ohiopoetryassn.blogspot.com/2025/10/opa-...

Thanks so much to @belindasubraman.bsky.social and BeatLife magazine for the conversation! ♥️ youtu.be/mKBKyZdnHgg

Meta is one of them, as are Google, Apple, Amazon. What are they getting for their money? Remember when we migrated to Facebook because it promised to never have ads? Now my FB feed is flooded with ads from Republican politicians. Makes me miss Farmville. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Next up - October 26th on Zoom - My friend Carolyn Srygley-Moore is celebrating the launch of her new book, Watching the Potomac Burn, hosted by Dane Ince, and I'm happy to be one of the poets reading in support. Join us! Details: www.facebook.com/events/15274... www.facebook.com/share/v/162R...

What a fantastic event last night at Gramercy Books Bexley featuring Ohio's three Poets Laureate so far, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Dave Lucas, and Amit Majmudar. We are so fortunate to have had such good people serving in the position. Photos courtesy of the amazing @karigunterseymour.bsky.social

One of many highlights at this past weekend's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival was the Saturday evening featured reading by Lauren Camp, Todd Davis, and Kortney Morrow. So many thanks to Karen Schubert and her team for making this one of the best fests ever!

Thank you, @mothergusa.bsky.social, for your hard work on this excellent project. I'm thrilled to have a poem included alongside the work of so many fantastic writers!

From the Lit Youngstown Fall Lit Fest: A Little Devil in America by Abdurraqib; Swan Wife by Wagner; Coffin Honey and Household of Water, Moon & Snow by Davis; Breakdown by Bonta; Tomas Tranströmer Comes to Ohio by Miltner; The Many Hundreds of the Scent by McCrae; One Turn Around the Sun by Seibles

Thanks to @mothergusa.bsky.social for this photo of me reading my protest poem "What They Did" on the opening night of this weekend's @lityoungstown.bsky.social Fall Literary Festival. Such a full and fulfilling several days!

The Lit Youngstown Fall Literary Festival kicked off with a glow.

Grateful to get some great art in the mail from Victor Clevenger!

Ekphrastacy is a series of artist talks + poetry readings held regularly in the Heights Arts gallery, in conjunction with our special exhibitions, where Cleveland-area writers are invited by the Heights Poet Laureate respond to installed artworks with poems. www.heightsarts.org/open-calls/r...

If you're gonna be around Cleveland Heights on Thursday (16 October) at 6 p.m., check out poet Trier Ward, all the way from New Mexico on a nationwide tour, at Mac's Backs-Books On Coventry. macsbacks.com/event/2025-1...

AncestryDNA just updated my results with more specifics.

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Shadow basil on the kitchen wall

I had planned all year to be at Lowell Celebrates Kerouac this week but, well, it wasn't meant to be after all. There is this, however: www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...

Well, I did like it a heck of a lot better before social networks became social media. The latest from Dan Blank: danblank.substack.com/p/what-if-yo...

Buffalo friends, I look forward to returning to your area on 5 November 2025 to read with Susan Nusbaum for the Literary Café at CFI (Center for Inquiry) in Amherst, New York. My final in-person reading of 2025! Many thanks to Ryki Zuckerman!

Lit goodies I'm happy to have picked up in recent daze! Kitchen Hymns by Pádraig Ó Tuama; NIGHT IN {a} FAIR REPUBLIC by RA Washington; The Roads at Night Looked Like Our Futures edited by Theresa Gottl Brightman; The Place of Dead Roads & The Adding Machine by Burroughs; Chinese Rhyme-Prose.

Good to receive my contributor's copy of Stormwash: Environmental Poems, Volume Two (Seaker Press). Thank you to editor Hiromi Yoshida. Important work. The book release happens this Thursday, October 9th, in Bloomington, Indiana. Stormwash: Environmental Poems Showcase: facebook.com/events/s/sto...

I'm particularly grateful that these books have recently found their way into my life. Lazarus by Jason Baldinger, Untelling (Summer 2025), Dandarians by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh, Collected Poems of Stanley Plumly, On the Road: The Original Scroll by Jack Kerouac, Game by M.L. Williams.

Last call to register for what promises to be an amazing workshop by Geoff Anderson of DiVerses on Saturday October 11th at 1 p.m. both online (via Zoom) and in person at the Cooperative Chess Cultural Center in Columbus, Ohio. Sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association.

From our President, @mothergusa.bsky.social: "I am absolutely honored by the spirit of this collaborative event with America's River Roots & OPA and encourage poets and poetry lovers and river lovers alike to join us [in Cincinnati] where river and freedom poetry will flow on Friday 10/10 at 10am!!"

Happy to be on the bill with a barrelful of stellar folks for next July's GonzoFest in New York! It'll be my first reading in that fair city since 2019. For the full lineup, see www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=1...

"War is sweet to those who have no experience of it, but the experienced man trembles exceedingly at heart on its approach." - Pindar, ancient Greek Poet γλυκύ δ᾽ἀπείρῳ πόλεμος. πεπειραμένων δέ τις ταρβεῖ προσιόντα νιν καρδία περισσῶς.

Some of the books I brought home from Maryland: The Elsewhere Oracle by Michele Battiste, Qila-Kolis and Ild-Irys by Todd Sanders, Backbone Mountain Review 2025, Gravity by Lynn(e) Schmidt, How Do You Like It Now, Gentlemen? by Lori Jakiela, and Samsara Magazine #25.

More photos, from Saturday at the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival. Such gratitude to the Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts.

More photos from Saturday night at the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival in Frostburg, which included a killer show by The Downstrokes with Controlled Chaos.

Another highlight of this weekend's Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival was having the privilege of hearing and reading with poet Marty Williams at Frostburg's City Place on Saturday afternoon. (Photo by Jen Browne.)

The Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival continued tonight with a wonderful reading by Lee Horikoshi Roripaugh at Main Street Books in Frostburg.

The Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival kicked off Thursday night in Frostburg with a fab reading by Lori Jakiela.

I'm thrilled to be taking part in the Western Maryland Independent Literature Festival, presented by the FSU Center for Literary Arts this weekend in downtown Frostburg. I'll be repping Crisis Chronicles Press all day and reading at 1 p.m. on Saturday: jesuscrisis.blogspot.com/2025/09/sept...

A fine reading by four northeast Ohio poet Steves at Love Coffee in Parma last night! Goldberg, Brightman, Smith and Thomas.

Happy to be in this film (my role is "Theodore the Poet") to be screened October 6th at the Lincoln Community Center Library, 1255 Manchester Road, in Fairview, Pennsylvania. jesuscrisis.blogspot.com/2025/09/106-...

Just a reminder that registration is open for our 11 October quarterly workshop, "How to Write Better Using Lessons from Haiku," presented by Geoff Anderson of DiVerses. Attend virtually or in-person in Columbus, Ohio. For more information and to register, please visit www.ohiopoetryassn.org/events.

My Crisis Chronicles Press table at the 2025 Writers Association of Northern Appalachia conference in Wheeling, featuring 4 authors we've published who have Appalachian roots. I added in my own Rattle & Numb (published by Venetian Spider Press) for good measure. ccpress.blogspot.com/p/crisis-chr...

Picked up some great books by great authors at the Writers Association of Northern Appalachia Conference: Continued Cases by Richard Hague [2023, Dos Madres], In Velvet: New and Selected Poems by Jeanne Bryner [2024, Bottom Dog], Mrs. Nussbaum's Monkey by Frank Lehner [2025, Bottom Dog].

What a wonderful event it was Thursday at Kent State, celebrating the release of The Nature of Our Times: Poems on America's Lands, Waters, Wildlife, and Other Natural Wonders (edited by Luisa Igloria, Aileen Cassinetto, and David Hassler, via Paloma Press). natureofourtimes.poetsforscience.org