Cleveland State University Poetry Center presents a reading with
Emily Mitchell & Catherine Wing

Wednesday September 29 at 7:30 pm in Main Classroom 134, 1899 East 22nd Street

Emily Mitchell is the recent fiction hire at Cleveland State University. Born in London, she has also lived in the United States and Japan. Her short stories have appeared or are Agni, TriQuarterly, New England Review and Indiana Review. Her review-essays has appeared in The New York Times and The New Statesman.  The Last Summer of the World, her first novel, was a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions Award and was named best book of 2007 by the Madison Capital Times, the Providence Journal and the Austin American-Statesman.

Catherine Wing is the recent post hire at Kent State University. Her first book of poems, Enter Invisible, was published by Sarabande Books and was nominated for a 2005 Los Angeles Times book prize. She has recent poems in or forthcoming from Best American Poetry 2010, Crazyhorse, The New Republic, and The Nation. Gin & Bleach, her second collection is due out in 2012.

Cleveland State University Poetry Center presents a reading with poets
Sabrina Orah Mark & Mark Nowak

Wednesday October 20, 2010, 7:30pm in Main Classroom 134, 1899 east 22nd Street

Sabrina Orah Mark received an M.F.A. from the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and a Ph.D. from The University of Georgia. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, the Glenn Schaeffer Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. Her first book of poems, The Babies, won the 2004 Saturnalia Books Poetry Prize. Her second book, Tsim Tsum, was published by Saturnalia Books in 2009. She teaches literature and creative writing at Agnes Scott College and The University of Georgia where she is a Park Fellow.

Mark Nowak is an award-winning American poet from Buffalo, New York. He is currently the director of the The Rose O'Neill Literary House, and is an Associate Professor of English at Washington College in Chestertown, Maryland. He is a 2010 Guggenheim fellow, and the author of Revenants: poems (Coffee House Press, 2000), Shut Up Shut Down(Coffee House Press, 2004), and Coal Mountain Elementary(Coffee House Press, 2009). 

Cleveland State University Poetry Center presents a reading with poets
Sandra Doller & Ben Doller

Wednesday December 1st, 2010, 7:30pm, Student Center 315, 2121 Euclid Avenue

Sandra Doller (née Miller) is the author of two books of poems, Oriflamme and Chora, published by Ahsahta Press; she recently finished a third, called Man Years, and a book-length experimental essay titled Memory of the Prose Machine. She is the founder & editrice of 1913 : A Journal of Forms & 1913 Press and an Assistant Professor of English at California State University, San Marcos.

Ben Doller (néE  Doyle) is the author of three books: Radio, Radio winner of the 2000 Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets, FAQ : (Ahsahta Press, 2009), and Dead Ahead (Fence Books, 2010). He serves as co-editor of the Kuhl House Contemporary Poets series from the University of Iowa Press, and is a new member of the MFA faculty in Creative Writing at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia.