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HeightsArts Newsletter
Arts, culture, and entertainment in the Heights and beyond
In the Heights, the woman who cuts your hair could
be a dancer (Zoe at Salon DM) or the research
librarian a poet (Ben Gulyas at Heights Main Library).
Recently, a library staff day opened with the
following poem-(prompting a discussion at
HeightsArts about annually appointing a Heights Poet
Laureate):
"Invocation to the Great Collector: or an Ode to
the
Briar Patch"
Here we are-a Friday morning in October-
here we are, hoped up, strapped in,
wading through a fog of "what happened to sleep?"
our crumpled socks, our hard toast, our bath water
overcrowded with ducks-
here we are spiraling in eternity,
a pin prick of Democracy,
peach cobbler & herring bone-
a dreamer's mind envisioned in libraries,
pulled from sleep
to "wake up" "wake up!"
the bee keeper's daughter
rasping a morning's call
to welcome out the barn
the lamb, the goat, the mule,
the cow, the horse,
the crow-
walking Spanish under light poles, down the sun,
under the rain-
pulled from sleep into an equinox of coffee and tired
shoes-
Here we are staggered and determined,
like sweet Mrs. Cline, the original librarian of my
childhood, who lived forever
with all the world and us,
the image, the feeling
of holding a book in the hand,
wood smoke and cookies-
- plotting invocations to the Great Collector, the
library
of our treasures - like the spike of the heart
in uncharted waters-
and with a blink of the eye, out into the morning,
Ahab and Jonah,
stroll from the bar(n)
return to pay their overdues
and criss-cross a few phone numbers for hens' teeth-
and it all
makes sense--
miles to the point,
years to right now,
one earshot
to the fox- (and us? mere Brer Rabbits? )
"Aha!!
Don't throw us in the briar patch!
Don't throw us in the briar patch!"
and we are in it now--
a Friday morning in this October world-
so let's begin.
--Ben Gulyas
10/14-15/04
all that you love will be carried away
a 30 minute film by local filmmaker James Renner shot in Kent, Ohio
Thursday, October 28
7 p.m. & 8:30 p.m.
Cedar Lee Theater, Cleveland Heights
Q & A with the director and cast members after the 7
pm show
$7 includes after-party at the John Stewart Parnell
next door
starring Joe Bob Briggs with appearances by Harvey
Pekar, Great Lakes Theater Fest's Andrew May,
Q104's Rebecca Wilde, WNCX's Michael Stanley and
Charles Moore, playing himself.
Based on the short story by Stephen King
For more information email
becarriedaway@hotmail.com
Poetry Reading & Book Signing
Thursday, October 28
8 p.m.
Nighttown
12387 Cedar Road, Cleveland Heights
The event is free and open to the public.
R. A. Washington, author of what grows glass
(Green
Panda Press 2004) and Green Panda Anthologese
#4
unboxed set poets Larry Smith, Mary Weems,
Kathy
Walker, Markk, Ben Gulyas and Jim Lang will read and
sign books
Green Panda Press is a small, local publisher
producing semi-annual anthologies and chapbooks of
local poets and authors. All books are hand made and
bound in town.
Contact: Bree
breesongs@yahoo.com
Green Panda Press
14314 Superior Avenue
Cleveland Heights,
Ohio 44118
216-397-3956
Grand Opening
At Lee Road's latest gallery, Art & Sol Gallery
Day of the Dead Celebration of Life
Friday, November 5
6-9 pm
2218 Lee Road, Cleveland Heights
Art & Sol Gallery carries a fun & funky collection of
Mexican folk art.
Kathie Korms 216-371-5672
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