[NEohioPAL]Craik, Jakobsons read at Gallery 324 Saturday at Noon

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Craik, Jakobsons read at Gallery 324 Saturday at Noon

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 begin at Noon, and rarely do they run past 2pm

These week=B4s FEATURED READERS are:

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. 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,  andTwin Crane Press, as well as others.  Her first book 
is titled:A Poet Traveling Incognito, published by New Kiev 
Publications. 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. Clarissa kicks 
sandcastles and paints in the Provincetown dunes, climbs the majestic 
Berkeley cliffs, reads from her new book at Shakespeare and Company 
in Paris.

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