Happy Thanksgiving!
It was actually all Sergeant Knight’s fault that Yossarian busted Nately in the nose on Thanksgiving Day, after everyone in the squadron had given humble thanks to Milo for providing the fantastically opulent meal on which the officers and enlisted men had gorged themselves insatiably all afternoon and for dispensing like inex

Chapbook Review: "Demon Lovers and Other Difficulties" by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Demon Lovers and Other Difficulties By Nicole Kornher-Stace $7.00 Fresh From The Vine www.goblinfruit.net Summer of 2009 brought the first of what readers hope will be many installments of “Fresh From The Vine,” a chapbook series put together by Amal El-Mohtar and Jessica

Kenneth Patchen
This week, the poet on poets.org's featured poet page is Kenneth Patchen, born in Niles OH. It's good to see some of the beat-era Northeast Ohio poets remembered-- Patchen has always been one of my favorites, partly because of the way he integrated poetry and art in his witty and whimsical

New York Times finds Poetry in Craig'sList
In Friday's New York Times, poet Alan Feuer finds poetry in the "Missed Connections" section of the New York Craig's List: Poetic Connections: Heartbreak. He admits to adding line- and stanza-breaks, but says that the

This Week in Northeast Ohio Poetry
Thanks to everyone who made Tuesday's Lix and Kix poetry event at Bela Dubby a success - especially my co-host Dianne Borsenik and our featured poets: Jen Pezzo, Claire McMahon, and Michael Henson.Here are a few other groovy poetry happenings around Northeast Ohio the rest of this week.Wed. 11/18/09 at 7 p.m. - Nepalese poet Yuyutsu Sharma reads at