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SUMMARY:Fertile Ground Poetry Event: 
LOCATION:Warrensville Heights Branch\nWarrensville Heights Branch
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DESCRIPTION:Join poets Kelly Harris-DeBerry\, Teri Ellen Cross Davis\, Jan
 ice Lowe as they share their work.\n.\nhttps://cuyahoga.libnet.info/event/
 8226653
X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:<p><em>About the authors:</em></p>\n<p><stron
 g>Kelly Harris-DeBerry</strong> is the author of&nbsp\;<strong><em>Freedom
  Knows My Name</em></strong>. She&nbsp\; received her MFA in Creative Writ
 ing from Lesley University and her B.A. in Business Communications from Ke
 nt State University. She has received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work 
 Center&nbsp\; and Cave Canem. Her work has appeared in <em>Verite News</em
 >\, The Louisiana Endowment for Humanities'<em>&nbsp\;64 Parishes</em>\; <
 em>The Langston Hughes Review</em>\, The National Parks Service Centennial
  Commemoration publication with Sonia Sanchez and many other literary jour
 nals. Her podcast episodes for <em>How I Got Ovah</em>&nbsp\;and <em>About
  Place Journal</em> said <em>Congo Square: Sustaining the Sacred Post-Katr
 ina</em> highlights her talents as a producer and researcher. Kelly is a f
 ormer guest poetry editor for <em>Bayou Magazine</em> at the University of
  New Orleans and has worked on several literary programs for the National 
 Endowment for the Arts.&nbsp\;</p>\n<p><strong>Teri Ellen Cross Davis</str
 ong> is the author of <strong><em>A More Perfect Union</em></strong>\, win
 ner of the 2019&nbsp\;Journal/Charles B. Wheeler Poetry Prize and&nbsp\;<e
 m>Haint</em>\, winner of the 2017 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. She is th
 e 2020 winner of the Poetry Society of America's (PSA)&nbsp\;Robert H. Win
 ner Memorial Award&nbsp\;and a finalist for the PSA's George Bogin Memoria
 l Award. She is the&nbsp\;recipient of a 2019 Sustainable Arts grant and a
  Meret grant from the Freya Project. She is a&nbsp\;Cave Canem fellow\, is
  on the Advisory Council of Split This Rock\, and a member of the Black La
 dies Brunch Collective. She has been a semi-finalist and finalist judge fo
 r the National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Out Loud. Her work has appear
 ed in many anthologies including <em>Academy of American Poets</em>\,&nbsp
 \;<em>ArLiJo</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Beltway Poetry Quarterly</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>De
 laware Poetry Review</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Figure 1</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Fledgling 
 Rag</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Gargoyle</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Harvard Review</em>\,&nbsp\
 ;<em>Kenyon Review</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Kestrel</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Little&nbsp\;
 Patuxent Review</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Love&rsquo\;s Executive Order</em>\,&nbsp
 \;<em>Natural&nbsp\;Bridge</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>North American Review</em>\,&n
 bsp\;<em>Mom Egg Review</em>\, <em>MiPOesias</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Pacifica Lit
 erary Review</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>PANK</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Poetry Daily</em>\,&nb
 sp\;<em>Poet Lore</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Poetry Ireland Review</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>
 Raising Mothers</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Rosebud</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Tin House</em>\,
 &nbsp\;<em>Torch</em>\, and&nbsp\;<em>Sligo Journal</em>.</p>\n<p><strong>
 Janice A. Lowe</strong>\,&nbsp\;composer\, poet\, and pianist&nbsp\;is the
 &nbsp\;author of&nbsp\;<strong><em>Leaving CLE: Poems of Nomadic Dispersal
 &nbsp\;</em></strong>and the chapbook <em>SWAM.</em>&nbsp\;Her poems have 
 appeared in <em>Callaloo</em>\, <em>Best American Experimental Writing</em
 >\, <em>Solidarity Texts</em>\, <em>Interim Poetics</em>\,&nbsp\;<em>Ameri
 can Poetry Review</em>\, <em>In the Tradition</em> and&nbsp\;<em>The Hat</
 em>. Along with collaborators Tyehimba Jess and Yahdon Israel\, she is a 2
 020 Creative Capital Awardee for a forthcoming multi-media stage version o
 f Jess&rsquo\; <em>OLIO</em>. A busy multi-disciplinary artist\, she is th
 e composer of the musicals <em>SIT-IN at the FIVE &amp\; DIME</em>\, words
  by Marjorie&nbsp\;Duffield\, <em>SOMEWHERE IN TEXAS</em>\, libretto by Ch
 arles E. Drew\, Jr. and <em>LIL BUDD</em>A\, text by Stephanie L. Jones\, 
 which received a developmental residency from The Eugene O'Neill Musical T
 heater Conference and appeared in the NAMT Festival of New Musicals. She h
 olds an MFA in musical theater composition from New York University. She h
 as been awarded fellowships from The Rauschenberg Foundation and from The 
 Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing\, University of Pennsylvania.<
 /p>\n<p></p>\n<p style="text-align: center\;"><em><strong>This event is pr
 esented in partnership with The Great Lakes African American Writers Confe
 rence.</strong></em></p>\n<p><img src="https://attend.cuyahogalibrary.org/
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 >\n<p>Complimentary light refreshments will be served during this event\, 
 while supplies last.<br /><br /></p>\n<p><strong><em>Books will be availab
 le for purchase and signing courtesy of Mac's Backs - Books on Coventry.</
 em></strong></p>\n<p></p>\n<p></p>\nhttps://cuyahoga.libnet.info/event/822
 6653
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