The Print Sale continues thru April 18
Heights Arts Gallery, 2173 Lee Road
Open Wed-Sat 1:30-9:30
216.371.3457
The Upper Yellowstone Falls, steel engraving by
S.V. Hunt after a painting by Thomas Moran, D. Appleton & Co., New
York, 1873
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POET LAUREATE
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Gail
Bellamy, a 20 year resident of Cleveland Heights, will be appointed the
city's 4th Poet Laureate by City Council on Monday, April 20, at 7:30
at Cleveland Heights City Hall.
Bellamy's wide-ranging interests
and talents are on display in her detail-rich poems, which combine a
poet's startling metaphors and associative leaps with a journalist's
deadly accurate, and often very funny observations. "I love all kinds
of writing," Bellamy says, "poetry, journalism, fiction, and memoir,
but poetry has always been my first love."
Her sense of history is especially vivid when she imagines her own heritage, as in "Papa's Violin:"
Papa's strings spun Transylvanian horas
evoked oxen, pitchforks, thatched roofs
far away in incense fog
Bellamy
is just as fascinated with the here and now, the hurly burly of popular
culture. In "If Advice Were a Vaccination," she considers what she
might have missed if she'd heeded her mother's advice:
...I never would have become engaged and unengaged
to a heroin addict, owned a quarter horse, slammed
my hand in the car door or been lingering at the
anti-military ball when the first punch
was thrown.
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Don't mess with Gail Bellamy; she knows the score. But in "The Waxy White Berries of Fortune" she lets us in on a secret:
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Mistletoe is a thin wire stretched across your path
providing the Uncle Lesters of this world
with an opportunity to kiss their nieces.
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Like
a good musician, Bellamy improvises; she is open to all
experiences, all vocabularies. "I never know exactly what I'm
going to do next," she says, "if I did, I probably wouldn't like
writing so much
As Executive Editor of Restaurant Hospitality
magazine, Gail Bellamy writes about food and beverage and has
interviewed chefs, mixologists, and restaurant owners all over the
world. She has noticed that most people are very genial and charming
when they are talking about food. "They open up and share
interesting insights, "Bellamy says. "And that's because they are
talking about more than food. Food is something all people have in
common; it's a very rich subject: There's food as metaphor, food as
memory, food as history."
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PODCAST EPISODE 45
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John Panza interviews Vanessa Aron and Genna Petrolla of Messy Magazine, a Cleveland-based, online literary magazine.
LISTEN to Episode 45: April 5 2009.
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DOBAMA BREAKS GROUND
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Heights Arts welcomes Dobama Theatre
to the Heights Library! The third partner planned to program the
former YMCA on the west side of the library bridge has begun to
renovate the pool into a theatre, joining Heights Parent Center and Heights Arts in making the public building an active community asset.
Since the building opened in fall, 2006 HPC has held the free Little Heights Family Literacy Playroom
for children through age 5 years and their caregivers in the upstairs
activity room. On the ground floor, Heights Arts Studio has
presented exhibitions, artist residencies, classes and workshops for people of all ages, poetry events, concerts, Oddyfest, and Dobama's First Mondays.
Dobama
Managing Director Dianne Boduszek and Artistic Director Joel Hammer
have planned an exciting first season in the new theatre slated to open
in the fall. The new season includes five main stage productions and
the 32nd Annual Marilyn Bianchi Kids' Playwriting Festival. A sneak
peek at the new theatre is scheduled for the summer and a Community
Open House is slated for Saturday, September 19, 2009.
dboduszek@dobama.org
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REMINDER
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REGISTER FOR CLASSES BY APRIL 8!
RESERVE YOUR SEAT FOR
A FLUTATIOUS EVENING ASAP!
216.371.3457
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