Poetry

Poetry

Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Irrational Objects

Thursday, April 18 at 7:00 p.m. Join Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman and guest poets Beks Freeman, Carrie George, and Philip Metres for a night of surrealism and the unconventional. For this Ekphrastacy, poets respond to the current exhibition on view in…

January Literary Artist of the Month – Christine Howey

Christine Howey is a performance poet, theater critic, playwright, actor and director. Her one person play, Exact Change, was an official selection of both the New York International Fringe Festival (as a play) and the Chagrin Documentary Film Festival (as a film).…

Traveling Ekphrastacy

December 1 at 6:00p.m. Join Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman, Calil Cage, Jeremy Jusek, and Michelle R. Smith as they respond to Valley Art Center’s 52nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Location: Valley Art Center, 155 Bell St, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022

Rolling Open Call for Poets

  If you are a poet in Northeast Ohio, we welcome your application to perform in the Heights Arts EKPHRASTACY Series.   About Ekphrastacy The Ekphrastacy literary program is a series of artist talks + poetry readings held regularly in the Heights…

A Poem for Cleveland – Book Release and Celebration

Saturday, June 24th from 2pm-4pm Cleveland Public Library – Main Branch Heights Arts is pleased to celebrate the maginificent work of our most recent exiting Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate. His current project, A Poem for Cleveland showcases  a “mosaic” of Cleveland –…

Heights Arts Appoints Eleventh Poet Laureate

HEIGHTS ARTS APPOINTS 11TH HEIGHTS POET LAUREATE Heights Arts proudly presents the Heights’ eleventh Poet Laureate —Siaara Freeman. She began her two-year term in April 2023, joining a long line of celebrated laureates, the most recent of whom was 2022 Academy of…