[NEohioPAL]Saturday August 24 at Noon in Gallery 324 in the Galleria

[marcus at designerglass.com]

Saturday August 24 at Noon in Gallery 324 in the Galleria 

Featured Readers at the EVERY SATURDAY AT NOON literary event 

at Gallery 324 in the Galleria at Erieview in downtown Cleveland:


Roger Craik  

Roger Craik, Associate Professor of English at Kent State University 
Ashtabula, has written three full-length poetry books - I Simply 
Stared (2002), Rhinoceros in Clumber Park (2003) and The Darkening 
Green (2004), and his poetry has appeared in several national poetry 
journals, including "The Formalist," "The Literary Review," and, most 
recently, "Fulcrum."  English by birth and educated at the 
universities of Reading and Southampton, Craik has worked as a 
journalist, TV critic and chess columnist. Before coming to the USA 
in 1991, he worked in Turkish universities and was awarded a Beineke 
Fellowship to Yale in 1990. He is widely traveled, having visited 
North Yemen, Egypt, Tibet, Nepal, Japan, and, most recently, 
Bulgaria, where he will teach during spring 2007 on a Fulbright 
Scholarship.  Poetry is his passion: he writes for at least an hour, 
over coffee, each morning before breakfast, and he enjoys watching 
the birds during all the seasons.  

Clarissa Jakobsons  

A former art professor remarked that Clarissa's sketchbooks look more 
like poetry than paintings. Who would have guessed this observation 
accurately predicted her present direction? Over fifteen years of 
public school teaching and parenting are being put to good use as 
associate editor of the Arsenic Lobster magazine and first place 
winner of the Akron Art Museum 2005 New Words Competition. Her poems 
have appeared in numerous publications including Wicked Alice, The 
Cleveland Anthology of Poets, Deep Cleveland Press, 2005; DreamSeeker 
Magazine, Literary Mama, WAH, Twin Crane Press as well as others. Her 
first book, A Poet Traveling Incognito published by New Kiev 
Publications, ISBN 1-881786-45-5, is available at City Lights, San 
Francisco; Black Oak Books, Oakland; and Loganberry Books, Cleveland. 
Currently, she substitutes in the public schools, teaches Art and 
Creative Writing at a local community art center, and elders at a 
local community college. She compiled Our Nature, a 22-page anthology 
of children's art and poems by Misty Publication. Don't be surprised 
if you see Clarissa kicking sandcastles and painting Provincetown 
dunes, climbing the majestic Berkeley cliffs, or reading from her new 
book at Shakespeare and Company in Paris, France.