[NEohioPAL] TAKE NINE tonight at 7:30

[Jean Seitter Cummins]

TAKE NINE brings their very special blend of poetry and performance to Judson Manor on Monday, April 2 at 7:30 p.m. as part of the FIRST MONDAYS reading series.  The program features Gail Bellamy, Kathleen Cerveny, Katie Daley, Rita Grabowski, Meredith Holmes, Bonnie Jacobson, Darlene Montonaro, Linda Goodman Robiner, and Cindy Washabaugh, who are -- in their own words -- "a group of nine Cleveland area poets who read, eat and write together."
 
Take Nine includes two former Cleveland Heights Poet Laureates, winners of Individual Artist Fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture (CPAC). They are editors of literary journals and anothologies, poetry workshop instructors, arts managers, and winners of awards from Northern Ohio Live, the Ohio Educational Broadcasting Corporation, and the Cleveland Press Club, among others.

Numbered among the nine are a nominee for the coveted Pushcart Prize, a performance poet, former radio and television producers, a Haiku Death Match champion, and a poet featured on Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.
Together their work has been published in more than 100 local and national journals. anthologies, eJournals, and a soon to be released music and poetry CD.  But above all, they are nine friends who laugh together on a regular basis, and challenge and support each other in their shared love of the written and spoken word.

Judson Manor is located at 1890 East 107th in University Circle,  just across the street from the University Methodist Church, affectionately known as the church of the "holy oil can."  Admission to First Mondays is $5 at the door.  Park free in a gated lot that is just steps from the Judson Manor Lobby.