[NEohioPAL]Press Release: Reading: Every Saturday at Noon - Tabasso, Geither, Billings

[marcus at designerglass.com]

Gallery 324 presents a weekly literary reading and performance 
series: Every Saturday at Noon. The Featured Readers read, starting 
with a piece by an artist other than themselves whose work they 
admire, and then there is an open mic afterwards. 

There is Free Parking for these events on Saturdays in the Galleria 
Parking Garage: enter off Lakeside between East 9th and East 12th. 
There=B4s a large sign with a 3-D curly-cue design that says "Galleria 
Parking", and a ramp down under the building.

Readings will be NOON TO TWO pm

These week=B4s FEATURED READERS are:

Gina Tabasso, a poet with her M.A. in English and the Associate 
Editor of Grasslands Review, has won numerous awards and has been 
published in Mangrove, The Common Review, Upstairs at Duroc, The 
MacGuffin, Mid-American Review, Slant, Blue Mesa Review, Pavement 
Saw, and many others. Gina earns her living as the Multimedia 
Communications Specialist for a tire distributor. She loves to ride 
her Thoroughbred racehorse and bellydance.

Elise Geither is interested in the line where poetry and drama meet.
Her poems have appeared in The Artful Dodge, Slant, Morpo,
Thundersandwich, and The Mill, among others. Her short plays have 
been
produced in New York and LA. Her full-lenght play, "The Doe" recieved 

a
staged reading at The Weathervane Playhouse. Geither works at
Baldwin-Wallace College. She is inspired by her daughters and 
horses...of
any color.

Michael Billings was a finalist for the poet laureate of Lakewood, 
and will have a poem or two in the upcoming Lakewood anthology, 
Favorite Lakewood Poetry, on Clevelandmetronews, and in Whiskey 
Island.

Excerpted samples of their work are at the end of this email.

About the Reading Series:

If you=B4d like to be a featured reader, please email 
marcus at designerglass.com . This is an all-volunteer endeavor. 
Featured Readers may bring their books, chapbooks, and cds to sell; 
the audience has been generous so far, but there is no other payment 
to the featured readers than the chance to sell their work. The 
Gallery takes no commission on the sales.

Gallery 324 is on the 1st floor of the Galleria 
(http://www.galleriaaterieview.com), in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, 
which is a glass enclosed arcade/mall with a 40-storey black facade 
office tower at one end. The office tower end has an entrance to the 
arcade/mall on East 12th Street, and the arcade entrance is on East 
9th street. There is a side entrance on St Clair between 9th and 
12th. 

There is free wifi access in the arcade/mall, if you have a wifi 
enabled laptop.

Gallery 324 
1301 East Ninth Street 
Cleveland, OH 44114 

216.780.1522 
marcus at designerglass.com 


Sample from Elise Geither:

	I=B4m not lying when I tell you his name was Ken Wolf. He was a senior 

theater major, had a single with a loft, a bong, and a tarantula. He 
had blue eyes, faded so they looked like reversed mirrors in his 
head.
	First time: I was sitting under the blue lights of the student-run 
bar smoking clove cigaretttes. I was in that uncaring mood; classes 
hadn=B4t even started. I could sit here and get drunk as hell. I could 
lose myself in remembering last year: beer and boys, my soft legs and 

feet tangled up in chairs and beds, one special boy I thought I 
loved. ...

Sample from Gina Tabasso:

It=B4s Halloween inside your mind
with a black cat curled on your mother=B4s lap
as she gave birth, so you hate all women.
I can=B4t begin to understand the pain of you
because I can=B4t understand what you inflict.
I know you have given me ugly things I don=B4t deserve.
You are the pillow I sit on after surgery,
the live Christmas tree in my home,
the candle I burn to light the way
into a dark tub were I soak incisions.
Yours is the body I thought of 
as I touched the body of my ex-boyfriend
who is no longer in love with me ...

Sample from Michael Billings

fell shadow cast
dissipation
hand to mouth 
face to hand
unknowingly proceeding
slow of step
 retracing steps ...





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