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March 30, 2015 MEDIA ALERT: Poetry in the Garden kicks off month of weekly events April 7

What: Poetry in the Garden 2015 Who: Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County When: Tuesdays ─ April 7, April 14, April 21 and April 28 Where: Main Library, 800 Vine Street Why: To celebrate April being National Poetry Month and announce this year’s winners of the poetry contest.

The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County is celebrating National Poetry Month all of April with its 17th annual Poetry in the Garden series. Special programs will be held every Tuesday night ─ 7 p.m. on April 7, April 14, April 21 and April 28 ─ at the Main Library. Each night will feature local poets reading from their works as well as open mic time for anyone else who would like to read a poem.

 April 7 ─ Fourth annual Poetry in the Garden contest winners read their poems; open mic time  April 14 ─ Poets Annie Hinkle, Sarah Nix and Patrick Venturella, plus open mic time  April 21 ─ Poets Madeleine Crouse, John Cruze and John Phillip Drury, plus open mic time  April 28 ─ Greater Cincinnati Writers League read around plus open mic time

The Poetry in the Garden contest is co-sponsored by the Greater Cincinnati Writers League. For more information, call 513-369-6987. Visit www.cincinnatilibrary.org/news/2015/poetryinthegarden.html

-more- PITG 2015 Featured Poets

A native Cincinnati writer, Annie Hinkle has received an Ohioana award and published in Ascent, Other Voices, Mid-American Review and Southern Poetry Review. She teaches Language Arts at Ursuline Academy, in Blue Ash, and is a member of the Cincinnati Writing Project and Greater Cincinnati Writers League. Sarah Nix received a BFA in 2006 from Herron School of Art and Design, Indiana University-Purdue University of Indianapolis. Her poetry has appeared in A Clean, Well-Lighted Place online, and is forthcoming in CALYX Journal and Sugared Water. Her blog is sarahonpaper.blogspot.com.

Patrick Venturella is a freelance copywriter and poet living in Middletown, Ohio. His work has been featured in The Sheepshead Review, The Boiler Journal and The Fifth Wednesday Journal along with other numerous other online and print journals.

Madeleine Crouse has had work in The Comstock Review, The Journal of Kentucky Studies, and various poetry anthologies. Much of her poetry is nature-based as a result of living many years on a farm in southern Ohio. She now lives and writes in the Cincinnati area. Crouse has a background in dance and paralegal work.

John Cruze’s work has appeared in WORDS (Thomas More College 2014), For A Better World (2014) − poetry and art dedicated to themes of peace and justice and Express Cincinnati July/August 2014. He is a hiker, poet, photographer, mediator, teacher, trainer and proud member of the Greater Cincinnati Writers League whose members have midwifed much of his poetry.

John Philip Drury is the author of four books of poetry, most recently Sea Level Rising (Able Muse Press, 2015). His other collections include The Refugee Camp (Turning Point Books, 2011), Burning the Aspern Papers (Miami University Press, 2003), and The Disappearing Town (Miami University Press, 2000). He has also written The Poetry Dictionary and Creating Poetry, both published by Writer’s Digest Books. His writing has earned numerous prizes and awards. Drury is a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati.

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