Third Poetry Sunday Series at Grailville, Loveland, Ohio. Full details can be found in this pdf: http://www.grailville.org/images/pictures/SundayPoetrySeries.pdf

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About the Author

Richard Hague is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers workshop, Editor Emeritus of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, an annual anthology of contemporary Appalachian writing, and aboard member of Cincinnati’s InkTank, a nonprofit literacy and literature organization.

Richard Hague is a writer and teacher. His recent collections of poems include Garden (Word Press, 2002), Alive In Hard Country (Bottom Dog Press, 2003, and winner of the 2004 Book Of The Year Award in Poetry from the Appalachian Writers Association) and The Time It Takes Light (Word Press, 2004). He was named Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association in 1985 for Ripening (Ohio State University Press.) His collection Milltown Natural: Essays And Stories From A Life was nominated for a National Book Award. His extensive poetry collection/teaching and writing memoir Lives Of The Poem was Wind Publications in 2005.

Richard Hague was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, educated at Xavier University in Cincinnati and has done post-graduate work at Oxford. The winner of three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in two genres, he has taught literature, creative writing, and interdisciplinary studies for 40 years.

About the Author

Richard Hague is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers workshop, Editor Emeritus of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, an annual anthology of contemporary Appalachian writing, and aboard member of Cincinnati’s InkTank, a nonprofit literacy and literature organization.
Richard Hague is a writer and teacher. His recent collections of poems include Garden (Word Press, 2002), Alive In Hard Country (Bottom Dog Press, 2003, and winner of the 2004 Book Of The Year Award in Poetry from the Appalachian Writers Association) and The Time It Takes Light (Word Press, 2004). He was named Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association in 1985 for Ripening (Ohio State University Press.) His collection Milltown Natural: Essays And Stories From A Life was nominated for a National Book Award. His extensive poetry collection/teaching and writing memoir Lives Of The Poem was Wind Publications in 2005.
Richard Hague was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, educated at Xavier University in Cincinnati and has done post-graduate work at Oxford. The winner of three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in two genres, he has taught literature, creative writing, and interdisciplinary studies for 40 years.

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Cincinnati poet Gerry Grubbs will be reading poems from two forthcoming books of poetry: Girls in Bright Dresses Dancing, to be published by Dos Madres Press (spring 2010) and Palaces of the Night to be published by Word Press (fall 2010). His chapbook Still Life was published by Dos Madres Press in 2005. Gerry Grubbs lives in Cincinnati where he has practiced law since 1989.

To read a Gerry Grubbs poem is to enter a world which will be, on the face of it, recognizable, but by the time of our leaving can only be described as a place we thought we knew: the every day as home to the mysterious.

The BonBonerie & Dos Madres Press Host Poetry Reading Series

Dos Madres Press teams up with The BonBonerie, Cincinnati’s premier pastry shop, to host poetry readings in The BonBonerie’s Tea Room. “The world of the arts is wonderfully diverse – to blend the experience of fine food with live poetry is a great way to enhance the pleasure received from both,” said poet Robert Murphy, founder and executive editor of Dos Madres Press. Sharon Butler, artist, BonBonerie co-owner and the creative inspiration behind its wonderful foods, says,”We are looking forward to this event. We will have coffee, tea and some pastries available for your pleasure.” So please come early and spend some time enjoying the Tea Room before the reading begins.

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“Through the world of Richard Hague blow hard winds of place and change. The result is a sacred and seductive music” —David Citino.

“Roots nudge between / stones and I / clinch them / like nails / with the angry / hammer of loss” —from “A Wrench My Grandfather Left.”

About the Author

Richard Hague is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers workshop, Editor Emeritus of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, an annual anthology of contemporary Appalachian writing, and aboard member of Cincinnati’s InkTank, a nonprofit literacy and literature organization.

Richard Hague is a writer and teacher. His recent collections of poems include Garden (Word Press, 2002), Alive In Hard Country (Bottom Dog Press, 2003, and winner of the 2004 Book Of The Year Award in Poetry from the Appalachian Writers Association) and The Time It Takes Light (Word Press, 2004). He was named Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association in 1985 for Ripening (Ohio State University Press.) His collection Milltown Natural: Essays And Stories From A Life was nominated for a National Book Award. His extensive poetry collection/teaching and writing memoir Lives Of The Poem was Wind Publications in 2005.

Richard Hague was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, educated at Xavier University in Cincinnati and has done post-graduate work at Oxford. The winner of three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in two genres, he has taught literature, creative writing, and interdisciplinary studies for 40 years.

About the Author

Richard Hague is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writers workshop, Editor Emeritus of Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, an annual anthology of contemporary Appalachian writing, and aboard member of Cincinnati’s InkTank, a nonprofit literacy and literature organization.

Richard Hague is a writer and teacher. His recent collections of poems include Garden (Word Press, 2002), Alive In Hard Country (Bottom Dog Press, 2003, and winner of the 2004 Book Of The Year Award in Poetry from the Appalachian Writers Association) and The Time It Takes Light (Word Press, 2004). He was named Ohio Poet of the Year by the Ohio Poetry Day Association in 1985 for Ripening (Ohio State University Press.) His collection Milltown Natural: Essays And Stories From A Life was nominated for a National Book Award. His extensive poetry collection/teaching and writing memoir Lives Of The Poem was Wind Publications in 2005.

Richard Hague was born and raised in Steubenville, Ohio, educated at Xavier University in Cincinnati and has done post-graduate work at Oxford. The winner of three Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowships in two genres, he has taught literature, creative writing, and interdisciplinary studies for 40 years.

In his invocation, the poet calls on the spirits of heroes and the artists who stand behind them:
Debs and Tubman, King and Neruda
Whitman, Lorca, and Florence Reece.
Tom McGrath and Joe Hill, I call
William Blake and Aunt Molly Jackson.

Echoes of their voices, as well as those of Tennyson, Vallejo, Ginsberg, and Dickinson, can be heard throughout the book. Weaving through them all, one encounters a pair of watchful crows, a corvine chorus announcing each section of the work. Crow Call can be read either as a meditation on injustice or an extended elegy in the tradition of “In Memoriam,” “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomed,” and “Kaddish.” Regardless of how it is read, it touches the heart.

About the Author

Michael Henson is the author of chapbook, The Tao Of Longing (Dos Madres 2005), Ransack, a novel, and A Small Room with Trouble on My Mind, a book of stories. His poems have been published in Threepenny Review, Red Crow Poetry Journal, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, The Merton Seasonal, Wind, and in the anthologies Smaller Than God: Poems of Spiritual Search, Old Wounds, New words: Poems from the Appalachian Poetry Project and Blue Collar Review. He is the winner of the 2002 Jack Kerouac Poetry Prize. He is a frequent contributor to StreetVibes, the Cincinnati homeless newspaper. He lives in Cincinnati with his wife Elissa Pogue.