<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif">Please join Art on Madison in welcoming this month's featured reader, Mitch James to our Poetry+ featured reading series event.  </font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42)"><font face="georgia, serif">POETRY + is a monthly reading series which aims to spotlight a single writer. Each presenter is given the platform to give an extended reading and take questions from the audience. </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><font face="georgia, serif"><font color="#2a2a2a">Tonight's reading starts at 7:30p. Doors open at 7p. Please join us at our new location</font><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial;float:none;display:inline">,<span> </span></span><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=14203+Madison+Ave.+Lakewood,+OH+44107&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">14203 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107</a>. </font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42)"><font face="georgia, serif">We hope to see you there! </font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42)"><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-align:start;text-indent:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px"><b style="font-style:italic">Interested in becoming a featured reader at Poetry+? </b>Submit here: </span><u><a href="https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/submissions.html">https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/submissions.html</a></u></div><div class="gmail_default" style="text-alig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