[NEohioPAL]September 23 and September 30 - Every Saturday at Noon at Gallery 324

[marcus at designerglass.com]

September 23 and September 30 - Every Saturday at Noon at Gallery 324
in the Galleria downtown

Gallery 324
The Galleria at Erieview
1301 East Ninth Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44114

216/780-1522
mbales at oh.verio.com
Gallery 324 Hours: M-F 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 2 pm

September 23 - Vladimir Swirynsky, & Brian Taylor in a
Haiku Death Match, and Kelly Harris

Vladimir Swirynsky is a poet and publisher of hand-made books of 
poetry, and a Pushcart  Prize nominee who has won awards and been 
published nationally from coast to  coast.  Swirynski is a regular at 
poetry slams, swaps, and events around Cleveland. His reading style 
is dramatic and his poems range across the spectrum of human 
experience. He=B4s been a resident of Cleveland for over fifty years, 
with nine books of poetry published in the last eight years. A 
finalist in the slams almost every year the Cleveland team competed 
for the nationals, he=B4s performed in just about every major city in 
the United States and nearly every venue there is in Cleveland.

Kelly Harris=B4s poem, "Young Blood" can be seen on Cleveland=B4s local 
metro buses. Her poem, "Returning to the Jazz" appears in the 2003 
National Poetry Slam Anthology. She has produced the poetry anthology 
cd, "Fresh Flames: Cleveland African American Voices" (in cooperation 
with Cuyahoga Community College). Harris is also a Wendy L. Moore 
Emerging Artists Recipient from the Museum of Contemporary Art 
Cleveland, the only poet to receive the honor, a Cave Canem Poetry 
Fellow at the University of Pittsburgh (Greensburg Campus), and a MFA 
Low-Residency student in Creative Writing at Lesley University in 
Cambridge, MA. Harris was also a 2002 honoree of the Poet's and 
Writer's League of Greater Cleveland's annual Writers and Their 
Friends literary showcase.

Brian Taylor has appeared in just about every poetry venue in 
Northeast Ohio. A participant in four National Poetry Slams, he was 
one of the six poets representing America at the First Annual 
Canadian Spoken Wordlympics in Ottawa this past October. Recently he 
was honored in the Poets and Writers League "Writesrs and their 
Friends" 2004 show. An ongoing student of the word, Taylor is noted 
for his wide-ranging subject matter, his love poems, and, in 
particular, his haiku.

September 30, 2006 - Every Saturday at Noon at Gallery 324 
In the Galleria downtown

Gallery 324
The Galleria at Erieview
1301 East Ninth Street
Cleveland, Ohio 44114

216/780-1522
mbales at oh.verio.com
Gallery 324 Hours: M-F 10 am - 5 pm, Sat 10 am - 2 pm

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".