[NEohioPAL]Press Release: September 16 - Every Saturday at Noon at Gallery 324 in the Galleria downtown

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Press Release: September 16 - Every Saturday at Noon at Gallery 324 
in the Galleria downtown  

September 16 - Leonard Kress & Eric Wallack,  Shelley Chernin,  and 
Donald  King  

Leonard Kress has 4 collections of poetry, Tryst: From the Life and 
Death of Chopin, The Centralia Mine Fire, Sappho's Apples, and most 
recently, Orphics, from Kent State University Press.  He has also 
translated the 19th century Polish Romantic epic, Pan Tadeusz, by 
Adam Mickiewicz, forthcoming on HarrowGate Press.  Originally from 
Philadelphia, he studied religion at Temple University, Slavic 
languages and literature at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, 
Poland and Indiana University, and poetry at Columbia University 
(MFA).  Poems, fiction, and translations from Russian and Polish in 
various journals: APR, Missouri Review, New Letters, Quarterly West, 
Crab Orchard Review, North American Review, and others. Associate 
editor of "Artful Dodge", Kress Teaches art history, religion, and 
creative writing at Owens College in northwest Ohio. He is married to 
printmaker Mania Dajnak and they have three children. 

On the night of Eric Wallack=B4s birth a meteorite in the shape of a 
pituitary gland was found in Omaha, Nebraska, and doctors were 
shocked to learn that the child was born with two functional hearts. 
The first, having revealed its contents in 1986, was replaced by the 
second.  Awakened to his own existence in 1979 when he felt it 
hovering three inches above his head, just to the left, after making 
his first guitar from the remains of a shipping crate rumored to have 
been used by Elvis Presley to store porcelain plates bearing the 
image of famed Red Hot Skillet Licker Gib Tanner.  Three years later 
Wallack emerged from his attic room with the ability to taste sound 
and channel the phantoms of lost 78 rpm jug band recordings.  After 
stints in such legendary ensembles as the Red Possum Squirrel 
Sucklers and the Murray Vishnu Orchestra, he turned to the more 
lucrative and rewarding world of solo free-improvised electric 
cricket performances.  Currently he is the Chair of Fine & Performing 
Arts at Owens Community College in Toledo, OH.   

Donald King=B4s poetry (no, not THAT Don King, THIS one!) is lyrical, 
personal, and powerful traditional work that he performs 
expressively. No one who=B4s heard him say it believes he=B4s much more 
than half of the 70 years he claims.  A local businessman who writes 
and performs his poetry from a fierce belief in the importance of 
connecting person to person, King=B4s work is affecting and impressive. 
He=B4s done several of his poems at Gallery 324=B4s open mic section of 
the weekly Every Saturday at Noon events, and his work is always 
welcome. Now he=B4s a Featured Reader.