on friday @cle_state abruptly shut down csu’s incredible college radio station @wcsbcleveland w/ the help of @ideastreamneo
the station used to broadcast dozens of shows and genres from around the world. electronica soul experimental freeform arabic country reggae classical salsa jazz ambient slovenian seventies lounge etc etc. now it’s all jazz
friends know that 89.3 is one of my favorite things abt cleveland and if i’m listening to music it’s 89.3. if wscb has touched your life or you too are humbled by the vastness variousness of sound and honor your DJs, please make some noise
first photo is wscb’s weekly schedule c. late 2023, last is my face all day after all this more bad nonsense
@clereviewbooks is celebrating issue 3.1 on Saturday, August 2 at 6:30 pm outside at @old86bar (updated venue). Readings from writers Kortney Morrow, Brandon North, Ali Black, Bianca Rae Messinger, and Zach Peckham. We lucked out with all of them. We love them. We love you. Hope to see you soon.
Detroit and local poets read at Rhizome on Sunday, July 7! Be there or be square. 😎
🌿FIELD BATH🛁
Edie Roberts
Christine Kanownik
Alyssa Perry
Hannah Williams
Logan Wyatt Wenk
630pm
Rhizome House
Reading road tripping Upstate and Western Mass with these Brads next week. Hilary Plum, Zach Savich, Justin Cox, and I will be in Buffalo 5/26, Ithaca 5/27, Turners Falls 5/30, Troy 5/31, and Kingston 6/2, with some quality Quabbin time in the middle there. Cya soon pals.
Sappy happy to be heading to Chicago tmrw for a launch of Justin Cox's STOCK POND. Tangible Books, 7 pm, rang in with Josh Nkhata, Nick Twemlow, S. Yarberry, me. Thanks Kai Ihns for organizing.
I've loved JC's poems since the first he read in an undergrad workshop — raccoon and harrowing arrow, limes in long thin glasses — thirteen years ago. It's been an honor and cool school to live alongside them and him since, in many forms, and esp to see these poems fast ripple thru the water, living water.
Please join us for LP04!
Four fine friends from Cleveland—
&each with new works out…
(I am very excited)
@fitz_books_and_waffles / 1462 Main St
May 26, 2025 ~6:30pm
—THE AUTHORS—
Zach Savich’s latest books are the poetry collection Momently (Black Ocean, 2024) and the hybrid critical-memoir-for-performance A Field of Telephones (53rd State, 2025).
Alyssa Perry (@lysperry ) is the author of Oily Doily (Bench Editions, 2024). She is an editor at Rescue Press and poetry editor at Cleveland Review of Books. Perry lives in Ohio and teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Justin Cox (@justinalancox ) is the author of Stock Pond (Bench Editions, 2025). His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Fence, Sprung Formal, Tilted House, and elsewhere. Justin teaches and photographs owls in Iowa.
Hilary Plum’s (@hmplum ) latest books include the novel State Champ (Bloomsbury, 2025), the chapbook Important Groups, and the essay collection Hole Studies. She co-hosts the podcast Index for Continuance and edits and teaches in Cleveland.
Upcoming stuff in CLE, KC, and IC starting tomorrow with and thanks to a bunch of super dear people. Clown heart's full of love and feeder fish who live on.
Also, OILY DOILY's on sale at the good press @bencheditions , code SALE25.
I'm reading in @woodlandpattern 's 31st Annual Poetry Marathon and Benefit on January 25-26, in the Sunday 2-3 PM CT virtual hour. In person and streaming online!
Woodland Pattern is a super special poetry bookstore staffed by small press champions, doing endless cool local programming; it's lucky to get to take part.
A lot of people and places need support rn; link in bio if you have a couple dollars to help keep this good thing going.
Reading a new set from OILY DOILY at Cleveland’s @loganberrybooks this Thursday at 7 pm (this tomorrow), maybe last local thing from book for a while. Thanks to Broadsides & Ephemera curator @blueintherace ! Faces for algo and lost bunny for lost bunny, pour one out
A lot going on but here is one gramface from sacred normie Saturday, a calm ominous plain, and some places I will be in the next three weeks. Hope to see and hug you friends in NYC, Philly, and Cleveland x three soon.
Places times also in bio / online.
