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America Has Become a Digital Narco-State Social media giants have bought our government, and are trying to bully Europe

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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.

So grateful to my friend Dave for his generosity:

Offbeat by David Amram;
Train Song by Jan Kerouac;
Door Wide Open by Jack Kerouac & Joyce Johnson;
The Job by Daniel Odier;
Minor Characters by Joyce Johnson;
Kerouac's Town by Barry Gifford;
GO by John Clellon Holmes.

More books I'm happy to have picked up in recent daze:

Terribly in Love by Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė,
3 Arabi Song by Zeina Hashem Beck,
The Habit of Buenos Aires by Lorraine Healy,
Gravity Well by Marc Rahe,
Candidate for a Fat Lip by Zenaida Smith,
No Moon by Colby Smith.

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

The 21st Annual Poetry E-Book Free-For-All Download unlimited free poetry e-books for 24 hours on December 1st. Join in with your poetry e-book!

Today only: Download 69 Free Poetry E-Books from the Poetry Super Highway. www.poetrysuperhighway.com/psh/great-po...

Dig these fab handmade books from Ethel Zine & Micro-Press. www.ethelzine.com/chapbooks-mi...

Wild Apples by Joanna Penn Cooper,
The Memory Dictionay by Madeleine Barnes,
Small Book for John by Alex Gildzen,
Probably, Ohio by Cameron Mays,
My Umbilical Star by Yaxkin Melchy (trans. by Ryan Greene).

Grateful these books have found their way into my hands in recent days:

Ordinary Time by Eileen Trauth,
Portrait of the Artist as a Bingo Worker by Lori Jakiela,
Without a Field Guide by Nicole Robinson,
Backlit by Liz Clarke Robbins,
The Women of the Golden Horn by James Magner,
Rattle #90.

At 95, David Amram Still Makes Music. And Nobody Can Put Him in a Box.

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The latest from Pure Sleeze:

Cutting Words by John Clayton;
Understanding the Vulture by CD Bailey;
I'm Sorry, I'm Just a Girl by PC Tavarez;
Cowboy in the Garden of Earthly Delight by Jonathan S Baker;
too many legs by Bug Valentine;
Horrible Sounds Played at Incredibly Slow Speeds by J.I.B.

$1,484 Raised of $2,600 Your Neighbors Need You We’re rallying our 2,600 Facebook Group members and beyond to help us raise $2,600 in donations to the Hunger Network during this difficult time. From those impacted by SNAP cuts, to the federal employees working without pay, it’s critical that we do what we can to support our neighbors under threat. Please consider a donation in any amount to help us reach our goal by Monday, November 24th.

We are in the final stretch of our fundraiser for the Hunger Network and the 70+ food distribution centers that depend on them.🍎
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So far we have raised 1,484

Please help us go over our $2,600 goal by Mon, Nov 24🌽

Join us in helping the 1 in 5 of our neighbors who face hunger🍓

Super grateful these books have reached my hands:

Ohio River Valley by John Dorsey,
The Earth Can't Tilt Toward Darkness Dorever by Christen Lee,
Hope as a Construction by David Adams,
Scratching the Beat Surface by Michael McClure,
San Francisco Beat ed. by David Meltzer,
Common Threads 2025.

Happy to pick up these good folks' books in recent days:

The Art of Escape by Trier Ward,
Bruises & Love Bites by Trier Ward,
the gone artists by Ryki Zuckerman,
The Song of Leaves by Carol Townsend,
The Color of Shadows by Carol Townsend,
A Cinder in My Knee by Carol Townsend.

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!

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)

Today at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst branch of the Cuyahoga County Public Library, sponsored by the Ohio Poetry Association: attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/event/13881294. Walk-ins welcome.

A life characterized by verse: How one Cleveland poet found himself through writing – The Land When Cleveland poet Philip Metres was a senior in AP English at Wilmette, Illinois’ Loyola Academy in 1987, he was assigned a poem that would change the course of his life.

Good to see @philipmetres.bsky.social featured in The Land:
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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.

OPA Ambassadors Report: NW Ohio with Sandra Rivers-Gill The northwestern part of Ohio has been all the buzz of events and accolades all around. In the ars poetica sphere is a chyron, moving and pe...

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!

Witch's Brew Poetry Open Mic | McConnell Arts Center

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

OPA Ambassadors Report: SW Ohio with Manuel Iris Exciting news from Carolyn Kesterman — her debut poetry collection , In the Space Between Songs , is coming out November 12, 2025 ! The pa...

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