A piece about legendary poet/publisher d.a. levy by Alex Benedict in the Cleveland Review of Books: clereviewofbooks.com/the-lion-lyi...

The Ohio Poetry Association is pleased to be a Community Partner with Gramercy Books Bexley for this special event featuring award-winning poet Miriam Flock on March 18th: www.eventbrite.com/e/award-winn...

March 21st at 10 a.m., Join the Ohio Poetry Association for a historical look at notable poets with Ohio ties on World Poetry Day! This is a virtual event. Please register at www.eventbrite.com/e/ohio-voice...

Happy Birthday Toni Morrison! Save the date for August 5, as we honor this literary titan.

Registration is live for the 2026 BlackBerry Peach National Poetry Slam, held July 23-26 in Overland Park, Kansas, during the annual NFSPS Convention. In addition to the cash prize, this year’s winner will be USA representative at the 2027 World Poetry Slam Championship in Tokyo.

More info: appalachianohio.org/aacf/opportu...

The Ohio Poetry Association is very pleased to be a Community Partner with Gramercy Books for this special event featuring acclaimed @maggiesmithpoet.bsky.social in conversation with Marcus Jackson at the Drexel Theatre in Bexley, Ohio, on April 2nd. Tickets: www.eventbrite.com/e/maggie-smi...

From the Wick Poetry Center: "Finish the polishing touches on your manuscripts because the 2026 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize, judged by Camille Dungy, is open for submissions! Visit our website for full eligibility and submission guidelines." www.kent.edu/wick/stan-an...

See and hear Cincinnati poet Ellen Austin-Li tonight on Zoom! Her new book, Incidental Pollen, is fantastic. More info: www.facebook.com/events/91462...

We're kicking off a yearlong statewide celebration of Toni Morrison on February 18, 2026! Spread the word, sign up for our newsletter, and join in the celebration. ohiocelebratestonimorrison.org

HOLD THE PHONE. WILL YOU LOOK AT THIS LINE UP! Get these on your calendar, friends. REGISTRATION LINKS WILL BE AVAILABLE SOON. A huge thank you to our sponsor the Ohio Arts Council and our "showcaster" Sheila-Na-Gig Editions.

THAT'S A WRAP! It has been my great honor to serve as Ohio's Poet Laureate for the past six years. THANK YOU FOR MAKING MY TIME IN SERVICE EXTRAORDINARY, FRIENDS! I am humbled as I look back at so many opportunities. Best wishes to our new laureate, soon to be announced! #ohiopoetlaureateemeritus

The Ohio Poetry Association is very pleased to be a Community Partner for this special event featuring Ohio writers Roy Bentley, Cliff Treyens, Sandra Feen, and our immediate past president Chuck Salmons at Gramercy Books Bexley on January 29th. More info: gramercybooksbexley.com/event/2026-0...

Deep gratitude to Jennifer Browne for her inspiring workshop on "Making a Killer Serial" yesterday. Next, the OPA is thrilled to be a Community Partner for this special event featuring David Baker with Julia Kolchinsky at Gramercy Books Bexley on 1/22. Info: gramercybooksbexley.com/event/2026-0...

A hearty congratulations to our 1st vice president, Dr. Susann Moeller, for being appointed the first-ever Poet Laureate of the city of Worthington. worthington.org/2420/America...

I look forward to participating in @lityoungstown.bsky.social's free Winter Writing Camp on February 28th, where I'll present a generative workshop, "Beat Writer's Block," about using inspiration from Beat authors to jumpstart your stalled writing. Register at www.lityoungstown.org/winter-writi....

Check out OPA Ambassador Manuel Iris on the Rattlecast tonight! www.facebook.com/events/25837...

Join OPA Ambassadors Mervyn Seivwright, Ray McNiece, Sandra Gill, Bonnie Proudfoot and Zach Hannah on January 4th at 6pm for a conversation that poets, as conscious bearers, deserve to be a part of. A meaningful and necessary discussion on the past and present of literary expression in our nation.

Congratulations to our @ohiopoetry.bsky.social Ides of October contest winners: ohiopoetryassn.blogspot.com/2025/12/odes...

A fun Ohio-based poetry podcast by George Bilgere and John Donoghue you might wanna check out. It's aired on WJCU in Cleveland for 18 years now. www.georgebilgere.com/wordplay

Join us Saturday January 10th at 1 p.m. online or in Columbus for “The Making of a Killer Serial: What’s to be Found in a Poem’s Recombinant DNA,” a workshop by Jennifer Browne. Register at www.ohiopoetryassn.org/events. You may also join us for our quarterly OPA business meeting that day at 10 a.m.

This #GivingTuesday, consider donating to the Ohio Poetry Association! Also, consider joining OPA if you are not already a member. Then consider volunteering time helping us continue to produce programming that helps poets further their craft. Thank you! www.ohiopoetryassn.org/donations

From our friends at Poets Against Racism USA: poetsagainstracism-usa.org/how-we-see-f...

Saturday we collaborated with the Cuyahoga County Public Library's William N Skirball Writers Center to present the Get Sharp! Poetry Publishing Conference. Workshop leaders Michael Salinger, Susan Grimm, Geoff Anderson, & Dianne Borsenik were fantastic. Thank you for sharing your expertise with us!

Ohio Poetry Association is an Ohio based arts organization that has long served poets and poetry lovers and loves doing so! We are grateful for our members across Ohio and beyond and hope you will consider us on this #GivingTuesday. Donate easily online at ohiopoetryassn.org/donations

Get Sharp! publishers Outlandish Press(www.outlandish.press), Blood Pudding Press (www.etsy.com/shop/BloodPu...), Bottom Dog Press (www.smithdocs.net), betweenthehighway press (betweenthehighway.org), Ethel Zine & Micro Press (www.ethelzine.com), & NightBallet Press (nightballetpress.blogspot.com)

Good to see @philipmetres.bsky.social featured in The Land: thelandcle.org/stories/a-li...

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-...

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...

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-...

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!

I am delighted to announce I’m going to be one of the readers at next year’s @lityoungstown.bsky.social First Wednesday Series, in March.

OPA has collaborated with America's River Roots to create a public poetry project that builds into our Ohio: The Body Poetic initiative. This digital flipbook anthology was created by our President, @mothergusa.bsky.social, who coordinated our Oct 10th Freedom Center event: midd.me/aspt

Cincy/NKY poetry fans: Our Nov. 4th features come all the way from Maine, @rosalane145.bsky.social & Stephen Haven! Accomplished poets with deep Ohio connections, both are thrilled to include POETRY AT ARTIFACT (at Urban Artifact ) on their book tour. Come listen & share in the open mic!

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...

Ohio Poetic - together to raise our voices in poems and songs celebrating our Ohio River Roots! @ohiopoetry.bsky.social @mothergusa.bsky.social @ellenaustinli.bsky.social @richardhague.bsky.social @sherrycook.bsky.social #poety #ohio

From our friends at the National Federation of State Poetry Societies: Submissions are now open for the Manningham Student Poetry contest (grades 6-8 and 9-12). Submit at nfsps.net/manningham-s....

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!!"

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.