Cleveland State University
Poetry Center
2121 Euclid Avenue
RT 1841
Cleveland, OH 44115-2214
Campus Location
Rhodes Tower, Rm. 1841
1860 East 22nd Street
Phone: 216.687.3986
Toll Free: 888.278.6473
Fax: 216.687.6943
E-mail Contact
EVENTS
CSU Poetry Forum
The Cleveland State University Poetry Center conducts a Poetry Forum on the first Friday of each month during the academic year. These workshops are free and open to the public. Visitors are welcome. Each forum is held on Friday evening at 7:00 p.m. in the Trinity Cathedral, 2230 Euclid Avenue, lower level. Parking is off Prospect, the entrance is off the parking lot. Meeting room #4, lower level of Trinity Commons.
Dates for the CSU Poetry Forumn, August 2007 through June 2008:
2008: January 4th, February 1st, March 7th, April 4th, May 2nd, and June 6th
Writers / Reading Series, Spring 2008
An Evening with Mystery Writer Walter Mosley
Monday, April 14, 6 – 9 pm
Music and Communications Building, 2001 Euclid Avenue
Waetjean Hall
Walter Mosley, a recipient of the PEN USA hailed by The Boston Globe as “one of the nation’s finest writers,” is the author of the Easy Rawlins mystery novel Devil in a Blue Dress, in addition to New York Times bestsellers Bad Boy Brawly Brown and Little Scarlet. Mosley was a recipient of the PEN USA Lifetime Achievement Award. Mosley’s short fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, Esquire, Playboy and GQ. He will lecture as part of the Black Studies Program’s Black Aspirations Celebration, a weeklong series of events. His visit is part of the Tombouctou Book Club author series, and is sponsored by the Dean’s Office of CSU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the CSU Black Studies Program, CSU’s Office of Alumni Affairs, CSU’s Office of Diversity and Multicultural Affairs, the Northeast Ohio NEOMFA Program and the CSU Department of English. A reception and book-signing will follow Mr. Mosley’s talk.
A Lecture on Documentary Poetics by Claudia Rankine
Wednesday, April 16, 4:00 pm
University Library, 1860 East 22 Street
Rhodes Tower, Room 502
Claudia Rankine is a noted poet and critic, and is the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College.
Poetry Reading with Bern Mulvey and Claudia Rankine
Thursday, April 17, 7:30 pm
CSU Main Classroom Building, 1899 East 22 Street
Lecture Hall 201
Bern Mulvey, Dean of Faculty at Miyazaki International College in Japan, has published recent work both Japanese and English, in Poetry, Agni, Hokuriku Shijin Shishuu, The London Times, and elsewhere. The Fat Sheep Everyone Wants was selected by Claudia Rankine as the 2007 winner of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center First Book Competition.
Claudia Rankine is the author of four books of poetry, Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric, The End of the Alphabet, PLOT, and Nothing in Nature is Private, winner of the 1993 Cleveland State University Poetry Prize. She is also the coeditor of two seminal anthologies, American Women Poets in the 21st Century: When Lyric Meets Language and American Poets of the 21st Century: The New Poetics. A 2005 Academy of American Poets Fellow, she has previously served on the faculties of Case Western Reserve University, Barnard College, the University of Iowa, the University of Georgia, and the University of Houston, and presently holds the Henry G. Lee Professorship of English at Pomona College.
Read the inverview with Bern Mulvey in Word format.
A Reading by Winners of the Student Creative Writing Contest
Spring, 2008
Monday, April 21, 7:30 pm
Trinity Commons, 2230 Euclid Avenue
Conference Room C/D
Poetry Reading with Kazim Ali and Philip Metres
Thursday, April 24, 7:30 pm
Trinity Commons, 2230 Euclid Avenue
Conference Room C/D
Kazim Ali is the author of two books of poetry, The Far Mosque and the forthcoming The Fortieth Day, as well as the novel Quinn's Passage. Cofounder of the literary small press Nightboat Books and a frequent columnist for American Poetry Review, Ali has recently joined the creative writing faculty at Oberlin College.
Philip Metres is the author of the full-length poetry collection To See the Earth, published this year by the Cleveland State University Poetry Center, and the critical study Behind the Lines: War Resistance Poetry on the American Homefront since 1941. He is the translator, from Russian, of Catalogue of Comedic Novelties: Selected Poems of Lev Rubinstein, and A Kindred Orphanhood: Selected Poems of Sergey Gandlevsky. He teaches literature and creative writing at John Carroll University in Cleveland.
Cleveland State University Poetry Center
Dr. Michael Dumanis, Director; Rita M. Grabowski, Manager
Activities of the Cleveland State University Poetry Center are under the auspices of the Department of English. The Center gratefully acknowledges support from the Office of
the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences.
Call 216-687-3986 for more information.