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Published on Sunday, Apr 05, 2009
April is National Poetry Month. The Akron Art Museum will hold its 15th annual poetry contest, and Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Rita Dove will visit the Hudson Library next week with her new book. The Learned Owl Book Shop is sponsoring a haiku contest (enter at http://www.learnedowl.com) and holding a poetry fete on April 24.
Bottom Dog Press, the nonprofit Huron literary publisher, has issued two compilations. Come Together: Imagine Peace combines the work of classic poets like Edna St. Vincent Millay and Walt Whitman, who could have known nothing of the Vietnam War and 9/11, with that of modern poets who write on the subject of peace.
Alice Cone, an English instructor at Kent State University, contributed Surrender, in which the narrator contemplates making a white flag; David Hassler, author of Growing Season: The Life of a Migrant Community, is a director for the university's Wick Poetry Center and wrote Household Gods, in which a couple pick up a damaged garden statue which ''stands between the mint and basil.''
Other contributors are Robert Miltner of Canton, Geoff Landis of Berea and Stephen Haven of Ashland. The poems are grouped in sections that show concepts of peace, from the absence of war to domestic tranquility.
Another Bottom Dog collection, Cleveland Poetry Scenes: A Panorama & Anthology, is a review of the poetry scene in Cleveland from 1945 to 2008, plus representative works from poets born in each decade from the 1920s through the 1970s. Separate articles cover the underground poetry scene, venues, performance poetry and slams, Web sites and publishers. Hart Crane and Langston Hughes are featured as the deans of Cleveland poets.
Come Together (208 pages) and Cleveland Poetry Scenes (236 pages) each cost $18 in softcover from http://smithdocs.net.
Akron poet J.G. Woodward's pair of books, Tumultuous Journey, Poems Along the Way and Poems Beyond the Journey, follow her self-described ''emotional turmoil'' that came when her life partner died of breast cancer. Woodward was estranged from her mother, who did not accept her daughter's sexual orientation. Before her mother died, the two were reconciled. Poems have titles like Bewilderment and Salvation. The books are available from online retailers.
Youngstown resident Crystal Elaine Reynolds has a slim volume called Poetry — Straight from the Heart, in which she pays tribute to her parents, soldiers and letter carriers (she is a Navy veteran and a postal worker) and reflects on her love of music and travel. The 21-page book costs $8 from http://www.dorrancepublishing.com.
The Wick Poetry Chapbook Series continues; Song of the Rest of Us is an expert entry from Youngstown State University instructor Mindi Kirchner. One poem confides a crush on a fellow communicant at church; another reflects on crossing the border from Pennsylvania back home into Ohio. The 26-page chapbook costs $7 from Kent State University Press.
Events
Cornerstone Book & Supply (1463 Canton Road, Akron) — Colorado author Beverly Lewis signs The Secret, first in a series set in an Amish community. 3:30 p.m. Tuesday.
Joseph-Beth Booksellers (Legacy Village, Lyndhurst) — Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and novelist Rick Bragg discusses and signs his newest book, The Prince of Frogtown, about his father's life in Alabama, 7 p.m. Tuesday; Carla Snyder signs 300 Sensational Soups, named by Good Morning America as one of 2008's top cookbooks, 7 p.m. Wednesday; British author Justin Somper signs Black Heart, fourth in the series Vampirates, graphic novels about pirates who are . . . vampires. 7 p.m. Thursday.
Akron-Summit County Public Library (60 S. High St.) — The Main Event author series features Rick Bragg, discussing his books, including Ava's Man and All Over But the Shoutin. 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Borders (335 Howe Ave., Cuyahoga Falls) — Jack Risin signs his comic mystery Funny Water and Bob, 2 p.m. Saturday.
Barnes and Noble (4015 Medina Road, Bath Township) — Local poets Mary Biddinger, Susan Grimm, Amy Braden Sparks and Jennifer Sullivan read from their work at 7 p.m. Friday.
The 27th annual Akron Antiquarian Book Fair — 3 to 8:30 p.m. Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at the John S. Knight Convention Center, 77 E. Mill St. Admission is $5.
— Barbara McIntyre
Special to the Beacon Journal
Send information about books of local interest to Lynne Sherwin, Features Department, Akron Beacon Journal, P.O. Box 640, Akron, OH 44309 or lsherwin@thebeaconjournal.com. Event notices should be sent at least two weeks in advance.
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