[NEohioPAL]McGuane, Hersman, Rader, and Rankins read at Gallery 324 November 18 at noon.

[marcus at designerglass.com]

McGuane, Hersman, Rader, and Rankins read at Gallery 324 November 18 
at noon.

Gallery 324 presents a weekly literary reading and performance 
series: Every Saturday at Noon. The reading begins at noon. The 
Featured Readers each read from the work of another writer whom they 
admire, then read their own work for about 15 minutes. Following all 
the Featured Readers, there is an Open Mic, and then each Featured 
Reader reads an encore poem before moving to the signing table to 
sign and sell their books or cds. The event is usually over by 2pm.

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.

Founded in 2005, Gallery 324 mainly showcases the work of Ohio 
artists, but this month features the work of STORM THORGERSON, who 
designed album covers for PINK FLOYD, LED ZEPPELIN, THE RASPBERRIES, 
MUSE, 10CC, and many others. Located in the Galleria at Erieview on 
the first floor near the Food Court, Gallery 324 is operated by 
Marcus Bales, a Cleveland glass artist, in conjunction with Gary 
Roberts, a Cleveland furniture designer. 

For more information:

Marcus Bales
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

About the Featured Readers

Jack McGuane is a seventy-nine year old project 60 student at 
Cleveland State University studying poetry in all its aspects.  Jack 
also serves as the Poetry Editor for Whiskey Island, the CSU literary 
magazine, and invites poetry and fiction submissions from everyone.  
Recently, his work has been published in the anthology Family Matters 
from Bottom Dog Press, in Artcrimes, issue #21, In the Nov 3rg Club 
Fall 2006 issue, in Twin Cranes Press and elsewhere.  His work will 
also be included in the forthcoming publication Favorite Lakewood 
Poetry and early next year Bottom Dog Press is scheduled to release 
his chapbook Sleeping With My Socks.
 
Jack and his wife Kathleen, parents of four daughters and one son, 
have resided in Lakewood for the last thirty-four years. He was 
recently designated Poet Laureate of Lakewood, 2006-2007.

Mark Hersman writes with a group of writers in Columbus called The 
Salon under the aegis of Pudding House Publishing. He will be the 
featured poet in the next issue of "Pudding Magazine:The 
International Journal of Applied Poetry". He=B4s published in a variety 
of Ohio anthologies, but prefers to perform in Sandusky, Mansfield, 
Newark,Coshocton, Columbus, Ashland and Wooster. Hersman=B4s serious 
interests in archaeology and wildlife gardening have influenced his 
work, and he has been a popular speaker on American Indian artifacts 
at, among other places, the Johnson-Humrickhouse Museum. He is the 
cofounder of Mansfields local archaeological Chapter, and has been 
teaching field archaeology for the last 24 years, with several 
articles to his credit.

Michelle Rankins is the author of, I Am One Blessed Poet, a 
collection of poetry, published by pear 5 publishing, in 2005. Ms. 
Rankins was a featured poet/performer at the 2006 Harlem Book Fair in 
Buffalo, NY; Notre Dame College, OH; and the 2005 Sankofa Fine Arts 
Expo in Cleveland.  She=B4s guest lectured for the "Meet The Authors" 
program at Cuyahoga Community College - Western Campus, and has 
performed poetry in Cleveland area public schools.  In 2006, the 
Poets and Writers League of Cleveland selected her poem, "Girlfriend 
Haiku" for the 2006 Cleveland RTA "Moving Minds" Bus Card Project. 
Her poem is displayed in over 750 buses in the regional transit 
system.  You can also find her poetry featured on Fresh Flames, a CD 
anthology (recorded in 2004) of local African American poets, and 
SLAM IT! recorded live at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in 
2005.  

Ms. Rankins holds a master in English degree from Cleveland State 
University and is a graduate of Kent State University. Currently, Ms. 
Rankins is employed as an editor/writer for American Greetings, Inc.  

 
Bennett Rader is a haiku junkie who enjoys many flavors of poetry. He 
shares his poetry throughout Ohio and neighboring states through open 
mics and featured readings.  He has read at such locations as a 
granary, a carraige house, a jail, a grist mill, truck stops, town 
square gazebos, taverns, and churches.  He has published occasionally 
in the small press and is an assistant editor with Pudding House 
Publications. Ben has traveled to The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry 
Festival several times to wallow in a near excess of poetry, and to 
Sherlockian events in the U.S. and Canada, and visited Sherlockian, 
Arthurian, and children's literature locations in England and the 
U.S.  He has been an educator for an eternity in the areas of 
history, computers, and library science and should have written this 
as a haiku.
 

Next Week at the 
Every Saturday At Noon event:

November 25 -  There is no reading Nov 25. The next reading is 
December 2. The readers on December 2 will be 

December 2 --  Meredith Holmes, Stephen Koelsch,
Robert Miltner, Leslie Nielsen

DIRECTIONS to the GALLERIA

>From the west side

2 East - East Ninth Street, right - Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking
Garage, right (if you get to 12th street you went too far - go around 
the block, right on 12th, right on St Clair, right on 9th, and right 
on Lakeside, and then right at the Parking Garage sign). Parking is 
Free
on Saturdays, $3 after 4pm on Fridays. Go up the escalator or 
elevator 
to the FIRST FLOOR. Out of the elevator turn right and walk past the 
escalator to the Courtyard

480 - 176North - 90East - 2West (Lakewood) - East Ninth Street, left -
 Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if you get to 12th 
street you went too far - go around the block, right on 12th, right 
on St Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and then right at 
the Parking Garage sign)

71 North - 90 East - 90East - 2West (Lakewood) - East Ninth Street, 
left - Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if you get to 
12th street you went too far - go around the block, right on 12th, 
right on St Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and then 
right at the Parking Garage sign)

77 North - 90East - 2West (Lakewood) - East Ninth Street, left - 
Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if you get to 12th 
street
you went too far - go around the block, right on 12th, right on St 
Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and then right at the 
Parking Garage sign)

>From the east side

480 - 77 North - 90East - 2West (Lakewood) - East Ninth Street, left -

Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if you get to 12th 
street 
you went too far - go around the block, right on 12th, right on St 
Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and then right at the 
Parking Garage sign)

90 West - 2 West - East Ninth Street, left - Lakeside, left - 
Galleria
Parking Garage, right (if you get to 12th street you went too far - 
go around the block, right on 12th, right on St Clair, right on 9th, 
and right on Lakeside, and then right at the Parking Garage sign)

>From the Heights

Martin Luther King Jr Blvd North - 90 West - 2 west - East Ninth 
Street, left - Lakeside, left - Galleria Parking Garage, right (if 
you get to 12th street you went too far - go around the block, right 
on 12th, right on St Clair, right on 9th, and right on Lakeside, and 
then right at the Parking Garage sign)

By RTA Rapid

>From wherever you are go to the Tower City station and change for the
Waterfront Line - get off at East 9th street, up the stairs, turn 
right on 
East Ninth Street (away from the lake, away from the R&R Hall) walk
half a block to Lakeside, cross Ninth Street to your left, cross 
Lakeside,
and half a block further on is the Ninth Street Entrance to the 
Galleria. 

If the weather's nice, you can also walk from Tower City across 
Public
Square away from the Terminal Tower building you came out of (the
building in which the RTA Rapid lets you off) and toward the BP
Building. Walk east (that is, turn right just past the BP building) 
on any of Superior, Rockwell, or St Clair streets, to East Ninth. 
Turn left. From St Clair, it's right there; from Rockwell, one block, 
from Superior two blocks, to the entrance at East Ninth and St Clair.