Blends & Bridges: A Survey of International Contemporary Visual Poetry & Related Art

Gallery 324 at the Galleria at Erieview is hosting a show of contemporary international visual poetry. The show is curated by Cleveland visual poet/publisher John Byrum, local artist Wendy Collin Sorin, and Florida visual poet/publisher Bob Grumman.

Gallery 324
1301 East Ninth Street
Cleveland, OH
216.780.1522
marcus@designerglass.com

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OPENING RECEPTION: Saturday April 1, 2006 5—9pm

Poetry readings/performances begin at 6:30PM. Refreshments provided. Free parking will be available for the opening in an underground parking garage. The entrance to the garage is off Lakeside, between East 9th and East 12th streets. Exhibition continues through April 30, 2006.

Gallery Hours: Monday—Friday 10—6, Saturday 10—2, and by appointment

For more information on the show, including directions to the gallery, click here. Click here for a map to the gallery.

Join The Asian American Writers’ Workshop for an evening of poetry, music and visual art with Mong-Lan and Paolo Javier on Thursday, March 30, 7pm.

@ the Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
btwn 5th Ave & Broadway
New York City
$5 at the door. Free for Workshop members.
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Mong-Lan is the author of Song of the Cicadas (Juniper Prize, UMASS Press, 2001), which won the Great Lakes Colleges Association’s New Writers Award and was a finalist for the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber Award. Her second book is Why is the Edge Always Windy? (Tupelo Press, 2005). Honors include a Pushcart Prize, a Stegner Fellowship at Stanford University for two years, a Fulbright grant to Vietnam, and inclusion in Best American Poetry Anthology. Her paintings and photographs have been exhibited in galleries in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Capitol House in Washington D.C., in Tokyo, Japan, and the Dallas Museum of Art.

Paolo Javier is the author of 60 lv bo(e)mbs (O Books), and the time at the end of this writing (Ahadada), which received a Small Press Traffic Book of the Year Award. He lives in New York.

For more information, check here or call (212) 494-0061. (click here for map).