Please join Art on Madison in welcoming this month's featured reader, Mitch James to our Poetry+ featured reading series event. 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. Tonight's reading starts at 7:30p. Doors open at 7p. Please join us at our new location, 14203 Madison Ave. Lakewood, OH 44107 <https://maps.google.com/?q=14203+Madison+Ave.+Lakewood,+OH+44107&entry=gmail&source=g> . We hope to see you there! *Interested in becoming a featured reader at Poetry+? *Submit here: *https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/submissions.html <https://poetrypluscleveland.weebly.com/submissions.html>* --- *Mitch James *was born and raised in Central Illinois, where he received a BA in English with a minor in Creative Writing at Eastern Illinois University. He received a Master’s in Literature and a Ph.D. in Composition from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. He’s had both fiction and poetry published in *Decomp*, *Underground Voices*, *Kill Author*, *Digital Americana* and *Blue Earth Review* - among others. Most recently, Mitch’s chapbook of fiction *The Cut Worm* was released by Underground Voices Press, and his short story "What Floats, What Sinks" was just released by *Calliope Magazine*. Mitch lives in northeast Ohio, where he’s an Assistant Professor of Composition and Literature at Lakeland Community College - and will hopefully give me a recommendation -- . Find more of his work at mitchjamesauthor.com <http://www.mitchjamesauthor.com/>. With warmth and kindness, Aubrey Aubrey M. Crosby Em: aubmcr@gmail.com <acrosby3@kent.edu> *"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi.*