4/26-28 Heart of the Heartland Small Press Poetry Festival @ SPARK Artist Resource Exchange

6PM FRIDAY-7PM SUNDAY…

A festival celebrating poetry and small press poetry publishers!

Friday, April 26th through Sunday, April 28th at SPARK Artist Resource Exchange.

Featuring regional and national poets and presses!

The Presses:

Spartan Press (Kansas City, MO),
Stubborn Mule Press (Devil’s Elbow, MO),
Chiron Review (St. John, KS),
Woodley Press (Topeka, KS),
Coal City Review (Lawrence, KS),
NeuroNautic Press (New York, NY),
Cringe-Worthy Poetry Collective (Buffalo, NY),
Casa de Cinco Hermanas (Pueblo, CO),
Kung Fu Treachery Press (Rancho Cucamonga, CA),
Luchador Press (Big Tuna, TX),
Nostravia Press (Hayward, CA).

The Poets:

Brandon Whitehead, Huascar Medina, Shanley Wells Rau, Kevin Rabas, Gary Lechliter, Adam Jameson, HC Palmer, Jeanette Powers, Nathanael Stolte, Jason Baldinger, Kyle Laws, Michael Hathaway, Al Ortolani, Matthew Hupert, Brian Daldorph, Macey Webb, Steph Castor, Robert L. Dean, Linzi Garcia, Steven Sassmann, John Dorsey, Victor Adam Clevenger, Jeremiah Walton, Shawn Pavey, Patricia Dunne Traxler.

More info to come!

6/15 CWP Presents InTENse Poetry! @ Mac’s Backs

6:30PM THURSDAY…

Cringe-Worthy Poets Collective presents InTENse Poetry! Initially featuring TEN poets from New Jersey westward, we’ve inTENtionally added one more to make it a glorious Baker’s Decade of Poets! And, oh yeah, baby, our collective inTENsion is to bring it and sling it!

Nathanael Stolte (Buffalo)
Ben Brindise (Buffalo)
Damian Rucci (New Jersey)
Jason Baldinger (Pittsburgh)
Jennifer Skelton (Buffalo)
Julio Valentin (Buffalo)
Misty Becerra (Buffalo)
John Burroughs (Cleveland)
Richard L. Gegick (Pittsburgh)
Dianne Borsenik (Cleveland)
RA Washington (Cleveland)

East comes together with Midwest in one of Cleveland’s most beloved venues, the venerated Mac’s Backs on Coventry. We welcome you to come, get inTENse with us, as we celebrate life and the pow-pow-POWER of poetry!