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		<title>Kathleen Cerveny Talks About Heights Arts History.</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Feb 2026 15:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Kathleen Cerveny is an artist, poet, grantmaker, and dedicated arts advocate whose work has had a lasting impact on the cultural life of Northeast Ohio. A graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art (BFA, Ceramics) and the University of Southern Maine (MFA,&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Bill Newby Creates Poetry from Exhibited Photograph</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A Poet's Creative Process]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Ungallery and Spotlight: Jeneen Hobby</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Apr 2026 16:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Join our new Heights Poet Laureate, Michelle R. Smith, along with Jennifer Hallaman, Jeweled Justice, and Sujata Lakhe , for an evening of poetry inspired by Heights Arts new 2026 exhibitions “Consider Fires” and Spotlight Artist: Josh Chefitz. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Consider Fires and Spotlight Gallery Artist Josh Chefitz</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Feb 2026 20:19:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Join our new Heights Poet Laureate, Michelle R. Smith, along with Jennifer Hallaman, Jeweled Justice, and Sujata Lakhe , for an evening of poetry inspired by Heights Arts new 2026 exhibitions “Consider Fires” and Spotlight Artist: Josh Chefitz. ]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: &#8220;Members Show&#8221; &#038; Spotlight: Felice Dahlhausen</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2025 16:32:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 &#8220;Members Show&#8221; and Spotlight Exhibition featuring Felice Dahlhausen at Heights Art’s&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Visions in Monochrome and Spotlight Gallery artist Nicole Condon-Shih</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jul 2025 21:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Join our new Heights Poet Laureate, Michelle R. Smith, along with guest poets, El Bentivegna, Kisha Nicole Foster and Bill Newby for an evening of poetry inspired by the &#8220;Visions in Monochrome and Spotlight: Nicole Condo- Shih exhibitions at Heights Art’s gallery.&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>El Bentivegna</title>
		<link>https://www.heightsarts.org/all-artists/el-bentivegna/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 13:19:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Michelle R. Smith</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2025 14:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Kisha Nicole Foster</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2025 13:30:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Heights Arts Announces Michelle R. Smith as the New Heights Poet Laureate</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2025 17:10:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Heights Arts Announces Michelle R. Smith as the New Heights Poet Laureate CLEVELAND HEIGHTS, OH – Heights Arts is excited to announce Michelle R. Smith as the 12th Heights Poet Laureate. Smith, a poet and literary advocate, was selected&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Regional Perspectives and Spotlight Gallery artist Richard Feinman.</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2025 20:16:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Heights Arts Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman, along with guest poets, recite poetry inspired by the current exhibitions at Heights Art’s gallery. Enjoy original works reflecting the themes of Regional Perspectives and Richard Feinman  in the Spotlight Gallery. The poets offer their unique&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Emerged and Spotlight Gallery artist Frank Hadzima.</title>
		<link>https://www.heightsarts.org/poetry/ekphrastacy-artists-talk-and-poets-respond-to-emerged-and-spotlight-gallery-artist-frank-hadzima/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Feb 2025 19:05:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Heights Arts Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman, along with guest poets Barbara Minney, Caira Lee, and Conor Bracken, recite poetry inspired by the current exhibitions at Heights Art’s gallery. Enjoy original works reflecting the themes of Emerged and Frank Hadzima in the Spotlight&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Heights Arts Seeks Applications for 12th Heights Poet Laureate</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Oct 2024 14:28:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2024 Jeanne Li &#124; marketing@heightsarts.org Heights Arts Seeks Applications for 12th Heights Poet Laureate  Cleveland Heights, OH – Heights Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is excited to announce the selection process for the&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Constructed Nature</title>
		<link>https://www.heightsarts.org/portfolio-item/ekphrastacy-artists-talk-and-poets-respond-to-constructed-nature/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Aug 2024 21:18:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Irrational Objects</title>
		<link>https://www.heightsarts.org/portfolio-item/ekphrastacy-artists-talk-and-poets-respond-to-irrational-objects/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Apr 2024 15:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>January Literary Artist of the Month &#8211; Christine Howey</title>
		<link>https://www.heightsarts.org/portfolio-item/january-literary-artist-of-the-month-christine-howey/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Dec 2023 02:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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).&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to PRISMATIC and Amelia C. Joynes</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Dec 2023 06:05:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thursday, February 15, 2024 at 7:00 p.m. Three guest poets will join Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman to perform original works inspired by the exhibitions on view in our gallery space—Prismatic and Amelia C. Joynes. Artists also discuss their work.]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Traveling Ekphrastacy</title>
		<link>https://www.heightsarts.org/portfolio-item/traveling-ekphrastacy/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Oct 2023 18:45:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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&#8217;s 52nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition. Location: Valley Art Center, 155 Bell St, Chagrin Falls, OH 44022]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rolling Open Call for Poets</title>
		<link>https://www.heightsarts.org/portfolio-item/rolling-open-call-for-poets/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Heights Arts Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Oct 2023 17:33:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; If you are a poet in Northeast Ohio, we welcome your application to perform in the Heights Arts EKPHRASTACY Series. &#160; About Ekphrastacy The Ekphrastacy literary program is a series of artist talks + poetry readings held regularly in the Heights&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ekphrastacy: Artists Talk and Poets Respond to Collaborage and Gregory Johnson</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2023 19:50:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Thursday September 21, 7:00 p.m. Amy Hughes, Sujata Lakhe, and Vince Robinson will join Heights Poet Laureate Siaara Freeman for one of Heights Arts’ most popular programs. Ekphrastacy brings poets together to perform original works inspired by the exhibitions on view in&#8230;]]></description>
		
		
		
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