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Black Kite Coffee Shop offers a voice to the Old West End
The year is 2003 and I am driving down Collingwood Boulevard. with a friend who tells me that the Old West End is her favorite part of Toledo. I didn’t know it at the time, but it was destined to...
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Dorsey: To tour or not to tour …
Anyone who has hung out with me during the past several years knows that I’ve toured the country in pursuit of small press literary celebrity and just enough cash to buy my next hamburger at Rally’s....
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Dorsey: Looking back at the life of poet Jack Gilbert (1925-2012)
A few months ago I was sitting with a few University of Toledo graduate fellows, discussing which prominent poets would be great to bring to the Glass City for a reading. Of course I offer up my...
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Owens to display Mayfield-Guerrero exhibit on Findlay Campus
The work of photographer and mixed media artist Tinola Mayfield-Guerrero is constantly in a state of becoming, much like the artist herself. Mayfield-Guerrero’s latest acts of creative evolution...
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Poet John Dorsey publishes new book
In a Feb. 7 YouTube video, book publisher Wolfgang Carstens reads a book from behind the wheel of his Chevy Astro. And just what book was so enthralling to him? That would be “Tombstone Factory,”...
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Toledo poet featured in NYC
The work of a Toledo-area poet will be featured June 27 at Poets House, a 50,000-volume poetry library in New York. John Dorsey John Dorsey will have his book “Tombstone Factory” showcased along with...
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Dorsey: Standing Rock opens submissions for annual chapbook competition
One of the truly wonderful things about writing this column has been having people come up to me on the street and tell me what they’d like to read about. Lately what I’ve been hearing most is, “I’ve...
View ArticleGlacity Theatre Collective to host Underground Cabaret at the Blarney
Several members of Toledo’s arts community are about to go underground and they wouldn’t have it any other way. The Glacity Theatre Collective’s Glacity Underground Cabaret will be serving up something...
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Abracadabra: Joel Lipman plans magical experience with new studio
University of Toledo Professor Emeritus Joel Lipman has learned from nationally known poets who told him to keep his focus local. That is his intention with ABRACADABRA Studio of Poetics. Joel Lipman...
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New collaboration details how ‘to abstract’ art appreciation
“Ancient arabic ritual yellow storm prays spirits dance mist born breath bloom flowers aroma eye” Jack Doehring wrote the above poem after seeing “Open 11,” a multimedia work by...
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‘December Substitute’: Children’s poet brings laughs — and insight — to...
There is a wonderful duality to the poem “December Substitute,” which features prominently on this year’s Make-A-Wish benefit CD. The piece, about a teacher who moonlights as a shopping mall Santa...
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Giving thanks for a friend: Remembering Marlon Harris.
Ask anyone around Toledo’s Old West End and chances are they probably have more than a few good things to say about Marlon Harris. I myself counted her among my best friends for close to a decade, so...
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A Christmas Light: Carroll, Steele read poems by Alan Harris for CD
Longtime local radio hosts Suzanne Carroll and Harvey Steele both contributed readings of Christmas-themed poems to “Holiday Wishes 3.” “A Christmas Light,” read by Carroll of 101.5 The River’s...
View ArticleLocal poet nominated for Pushcart Prize, preparing levyfest
Toledo poet John Dorsey was recently nominated for a 2013 Pushcart Prize. Hydeout Press recently announced the nomination, which recognized his book of poetry “Twenty Poems About Girls.” “I think it’s...
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Arts Commission calls for submissions for Poetry Sidewalk Project
Upcoming changes to Collingwood Boulevard sidewalks will be more than another layer of tan pavement. The Arts Commission is calling for submissions for the next phase of its Poetry Sidewalk Project, to...
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