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National Poetry Month is less than two weeks away!</div>
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Mark your calendar for these events brought to you by the Ohio Center for the Book based at Cleveland Public Library.</div>
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For full details and connection information for the virtual programs, check out:</div>
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<a href="https://ohiocenterforthebook.org/2022/02/08/april-is-national-poetry-month/" id="LPlnk290910">https://ohiocenterforthebook.org/2022/02/08/april-is-national-poetry-month/</a><br>
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Saturday, April 2: 1:00 - 2:00 PM</div>
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Virtual Poetry Reading and Q&A with Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio's Poet Laureate</div>
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Kari Gunter-Seymour was born in Warren and raised in Athens County, Ohio. Named Ohio Poet of the Year 2020, she is the author of A Place So Deep Inside America It Can’t Be Seen: Poems; Serving; and Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing, Ohio’s Appalachian Voices.<br>
(No registration required)</div>
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Saturday, <span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">April 16: 3:30 – 5:00 PM</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Virtual Book/Poetry Discussion: Playlist for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove</span></div>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Attendees will read and discuss poems from Playlist
for the Apocalypse: Poems by Rita Dove</span></span><br>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Check out the website above for additional resources
about the book including interviews with Rita Dove.</span></span></div>
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registration required)</span><br>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Saturday, April 23: 3:30 - 5:00 PM</span></span></div>
<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">Blackout Poetry Workshop with Michael Nyers<br>
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<div style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);display:inline !important">In-person workshop held at Cleveland Public Library
Main Library, 325 Superior Avenue, Cleveland, OH 44114</span></span></div>
<div style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Workshop held in the Literature Department/Ohio
Center for the Book, 2nd floor, Mail Library</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;"></span></span></span></div>
<div style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Michael Nyers of Fade Into Blackout Poetry <a href="https://www.fadeintoablackoutpoetry.com/" id="LPNoLPOWALinkPreview">https://www.fadeintoablackoutpoetry.com/</a> will
lead this poetry craft workshop for participants of all ages.</span></span></span></div>
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registration required)</span><br>
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<div style=""><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); display: inline !important;"><span style="font-size: 12pt;">For more information, call the Ohio Center for
the Book at Cleveland Public Library at 216-623-2881 or check out <a href="https://ohiocenterforthebook.org/2022/02/08/april-is-national-poetry-month/" style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">
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