Attention Poets and Poetry Enthusiasts

The last few years the Poetry Center at Cleveland State University has been kicking total ass, bringing us the finest young academic poets in the nation month after month for really spectacular readings. If poetry readings - or even writing in general - is your jam, make an effort to catch one of their events. They just released their fall reading schedule and there are some particularly good events, especially the 11/19 event featuring writers whose work CSU has recently published in their monograph series. In other words, top shelf literary entertainment ... for free. Check it out!

Here's the Fall 2009 line-up. (More info can be found here.)

Thursday, September 17, 7:30 pm
A Reading with Poets Kate Greenstreet & Rebecca Wolff
MC134, Main Classroom, 1899 East 22 Street

Thursday, October 1, 7:30 pm
A Reading with Poet/Memoirist Mark Doty & Fiction Writer/Memoirist Paul Lisicky
Dively Auditorium, UR 112, Urban College, 1717 Euclid Avenue
(Note: This reading is presented in cooperation with the NEOMFA, The Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts Program)

Thursday, October 15, 7:30 pm
A Reading with Poets Oni Buchanan & Carmen Giménez Smith
MC134, Main Classroom, 1899 East 22 Street
(Note: On Friday, October 16, 7:30 pm, Oni Buchanan will perform “Impromptus and Fantasies,” piano works by Bach, Chopin, Schubert, and Schumann in Drinko Recital Hall in the Music & Communication Center, 2001 Euclid Avenue. Free and open to the public. Call 216-687-2033 for more information.)

Tuesday, October 20, 7:30 pm
A Reading with Poets David Baker & Kevin Prufer
MC134, Main Classroom, 1899 East 22 Street

Thursday, November 19, 7:30 pm
A Reading with Poets Helena Mesa, Mathias Svalina, & Allison Titus
MC134, Main Classroom, 1899 East 22 Street