Poetry

Poetry

Ekphrastacy: “Members Show” & Spotlight: Felice Dahlhausen

About this event Join our new Heights Poet Laureate, Michelle R. Smith, along with guest poets, Calil Cage, Chelsea Daniel, and Andrea Fekete for an evening of poetry inspired by the “Members Show” and Spotlight Exhibition featuring Felice Dahlhausen at Heights Art’s…

El Bentivegna

El is a NEOMFA poetry candidate at Cleveland State and a 2025 Academy of American Poets Prize winner. They live in Cleveland Heights with their husband and five cats.

Michelle R. Smith

Michelle R. Smith is a writer, poet, educator, cultural facilitator, and native Clevelander. She is the Programming Director for Literary Cleveland and author of the poetry collections Ariel in Black (2015) and The Vagina Analogues (2020). She has been published in The…

Kisha Nicole Foster

Kisha Nicole Foster lives in Cleveland, and is the recipient of the 2019 Cleveland Arts Prize for Emerging Artist in Literature. Foster is an alumnus of Cleveland State University-BA English, and holds an MFA in Poetry from the University of Nebraska-Omaha. Foster…

Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Constructed Nature

Thursday, September 19 at 7:00 p.m.      Join Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman, along with guest poets Willow Watson, Corey Miller, and former Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate Gail Bellamy, for an evening of poetry inspired by the current exhibitions at Heights…