[NEohioPAL]Sept 30, 06 - Bilgere, Black, McMahon, and Janssen read at Gallery 324 Saturday at Noon

[marcus at designerglass.com]

Sept 30, 06 - Bilgere, Black, McMahon, and Janssen 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

The  FEATURED READERS for SEPTEMBER 30, 2006 are:

George Bilgere's collection of poems, "The Good Kiss", was chosen by 
U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins to win the University of Akron's 
Poetry Award in 2001. His latest book, "Haywire", has won the 2006 
May Swenson Poetry Award. He has received grants from the National 
Endowment for the Arts, the Ohio Arts Council, the Wittern Bynner 
Foundation through the Library of Congress, and the Fulbright 
Commission. He is the 2003 winner of the Cleveland Arts Prize in 
Literature, and the 2006 winner of the Ohioana Poetry Award.

Cletus Black is a singer-songwriter based in Cleveland. A cross 
between Johnny Cash and Lou Reed who writes and sings the blues, 
Cletus Black will sing a couple songs, and talk with Every Saturday 
at Noon host Marcus Bales about how lyrics can be poetry. If you=B4ve 
seen the Ted Kooser interview of John Prine at the Folger Library in 
DC, you=B4ll have an idea of how it will go - except without Kooser, 
Prine, or the Folger. His newest CD release is "In theShadow", from 
this year 2006, which followed "Bloodlines to the Heart" : 2004, "Not 
Too Blues" : 2002, "Black Ice" : 2001, "Cletus Black" : 1999, "Back 
it Up" : 1998, and "Shades of Black": 1996.

Claire McMahon has an MFA from Naropa University and a Ph.D. from 
Kent State University. She is currently an adjunct professor at 
Baldwin-Wallace College, Cuyahoga Community College, and Myers 
University (respectively).  She is the co-editor of the new poetry 
magazine "MoonLit" Her new book, "Emergency Contact", is due out soon 
from Van Zeno Press. She lives on Cleveland's west side with her two 
daughters.

Lisa Janssen is a poet and archivist living in Chicago, IL. She has 
been published in such journals as Bombay Gin, The New Censorship, 
and Make. She is a  graduate of the Naropa University writing 
program, and co-edits the journal "MoonLit".

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