Two Poets Share New Books in Sandusky at Coffeehouse Readings
10 Nov 2012 2:00 pm
Liane Ellison Norman [Breathing the West: Great Basin Poems] and Karen Kotrba [She Who Is Like a Mare: Poems of the Frontier Nursing Service] will be featured at the monthly Coffeehouse Reading Series in downtown Sandusky. The event is sponsored by the Firelands Writing Center and Bottom Dog Press. Free and open to the public. An Open-Mic follows the reading.
Location:
Mr. Smith's Coffeehouse, 140 Columbus Ave.
City:
Sandusky
State:
Ohio
On The Free Farm: A Novel...Smith provides a unique window into Lee’s young life that is driven by idealism, love of Emerson and Thoreau, and devotion to his beautiful partner, who practices Zen, meditates, and can fix cars….In this realistic yet often surprising and tender novel, a quoted line from 'The Waking' by Theodore Roethke serves as a guidepost: 'I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow/ I feel my fate in what I cannot fear/ I learn by going where I have to go.' ”
—Laura Treacy Bentley
About Larry
I grew up in the industrial Ohio River Valley along the green Appalachian hills. I taught 3 years on high school English before returning to grad school at Kent State University and was there with my wife and daughter during the Kent State shootings. I then...
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Causes Larry Smith Supports
peace and justice, meditation
Larry’s Favorite Books
Walden, Kenneth Patchen Collected Poems