Events
Controlled Conversations at Visible Voice Books, Cleveland, OH
Sat, Nov 23, 2024. 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm.
2258 Professor Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44113.
Let's spend some time in community and talk. Resistance will take on a different shape than it did eight years ago because the challenge is different, and it will be important for all to maintain our strength of spirit and know that we are part of something greater.
About my conversation partner, Virginia Konchan:
Virginia Konchan is the author of five books of poetry, including Requiem (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025), and Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon, 2022). Coeditor of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2023), and recipient of fellowships from the Amy Clampitt Poet Residency Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, The Believer, and the Academy of American Poets.
Controlled Conversations at The Book Loft of German Village, Columbus, OH
Wed, Jan 15, 2025. 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm.
Details: https://www.bookloft.com/event/book-loft-presents-karol-lagodzki-darren-c-demaree
The Book Loft is a gigantic maze of books with something for everyone. Let's get together and talk about fiction and poetry, and how we can take inspiration from either.
About my conversation partner, Darren Demaree:
Darren C. Demaree grew up in Mount Vernon, Ohio. He is a graduate of the College of Wooster, Miami University, and Kent State University. He is the author of seventeen poetry collections, most recently “the luxury”, (January 2023, Glass Lyre Press). He is the recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louise Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Editor-in-chief of the Best of the Net Anthology and Managing Editor of Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently working in the Columbus Metropolitan Library system, and living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.