First Friday Poetry Spectacular

07/13/2014

The Poet's Haven - VENDING MACHINE: Poetry for Change vol. 5

The submission call for this year's VENDING MACHINE anthology is now live! We are now using Submittable to manage our submission queue. Submissions must be in by October 4th; the call will automatically close at midnight (EST) that night. Don't wait until the last minute!

The Poet's Haven is seeking submissions inspired by the following quote: "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi This is for the next "VENDING MACHINE" anthology that will be released at a special show on November 22nd in conjunction with the Poetic Prov…

01/24/2014

While the First Friday Poetry Spectacular series may have come to an end, there is still poetry in Canton each month on the third Friday at Stardust Poetry at Karma Café!

10/18/2013

VENDING MACHINE: Poetry for Change volume 3 | The Poet's Haven

"VENDING MACHINE: Poetry for Change volume 3" is now available as a free eBook download!

Forgive the messy site, Poet's Haven is going through some necessary re-construction at the moment...

VENDING MACHINE: Poetry for Change volume 3 This entry was posted in eBooks on October 1, 2013 by PoetsHaven.com. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” –Mahatama Gandhi “Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.” –Robert C. Gallagher VENDING MACHINE: Poetry for Change vol...

09/06/2013

Lake Effect Poetry

For anyone not able to make it to Karma Cafe for tonight's show, we will be streaming it at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/lake-effect-poetry

Lake Effect Poetry is north-east Ohio's National Poetry Slam team, representing Cleveland, Akron, Canton, and all the areas around and in-between.

06/19/2013

Lake Effect Poetry - Donate

Please help our team get to Boston for National Poetry Slam! The 2013 Team Anthology is now available for just a $10 donation, or get both the 2013 and 2012 anthologies for $15.

Help send our team to competitions by donating funds!

01/04/2013

Lake Effect Poetry

Can't make it to tonight's show? If everything goes according to plan, we will be broadcasting live on ustream. :-)

Lake Effect Poetry @ USTREAM: Lake Effect Poetry is north-east Ohio's National Poetry Slam team, representing Cleveland, Akron, Canton, and all the areas a...

12/06/2012

David Bowie - CHANGES

David Bowie - CHANGES

The BOWIE-MANIFESTO : "illusion" of Time and the spirit of "Changes" . . .

10/31/2012

a place for cleveland's writers and readers: Lovers and Killers

a place for cleveland's writers and readers: Lovers and Killers

10/11/2012

The Poet's Haven is seeking submissions inspired by the following quote:

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." -- Mahatma Gandhi

This is for the next "VENDING MACHINE: Poetry for Change" anthology that will be released at a special Poet's Haven show this November 17th, in conjunction with the "Poetic Provisions" food-drive.

THE RULES & GUIDELINES:

POEM SUBMISSIONS MUST BE LESS THAN 60 LINES. Poems under 30 lines are recommended. Story and essay submissions must be under 500 words.

Submissions must be received by October 13th!

SUBMISSIONS MUST FIT THE THEME!!! If you can't take the time to read the theme, we won't waste time considering your work.

As this is a charity project to benefit Canton Sunday Picnic and the Akron-Canton Regional Foodbank, we are unable to provide contributor copies.

Authors retain the right to have their submissions published elsewhere, as long as the other publishers do not require first-time or exclusive rights. Previously published material is acceptable though discouraged.

This anthology will also be published as a free e-book download in 2013.

Submissions should be e-mailed to:
VendingMachine[at]PoetsHaven.com

10/03/2012

a place for cleveland's writers and readers: Canton First Friday

a place for cleveland's writers and readers: Canton First Friday

08/30/2012

Upcoming First Friday Poetry Spectacular features:
September 7 - Christine Howey
October 5 - J.G. The Jugganaut
November 2 - Mary A. Turzillo

07/05/2012

Sorry for the delay, folks. Here's the news about this week's First Friday Poetry Spectacular: Our featured poet will be AKeem Jamal Rollins, and we will be holding the show at a new location, 326 Cleveland Avenue NW! (That's beside Second April Gallerie, in the location that was recently Silver Stars Dance Studio.) A BIG THANK YOU to Kolp Realty and Arts in Stark for hooking us up with this AWESOME location to hold this month's slam!

07/04/2012

Help Lake Effect Poetry get to Nationals!

LAKE EFFECT POETRY NEEDS YOUR HELP!!! That whole "poetry is synonymous with broke" thing doesn't work right now, we need funds to get the team to Nationals! Please help us get your team to NPS!

Lake Effect Poetry is north-east Ohio's slam team, representing Cleveland, Akron, Canton, and everywhere around and in-between. Our mission is to get the team to National Poetry Slam in Charlotte, NC, August 7-11.Your 2012 Lake Effect Poetry slam team is; T.M. Göttl, Mello the Poet, Carla Thompson,...

05/28/2012

FYI: The Poetry Spectacular will be taking June off. We will not have a poetry slam during June's First Friday. (Vertigo will be taking the Lake Effect Poetry slam team to Rustbelt.) That doesn't mean there's no poetry in Canton on June 1st! We highly encourage our poets to perform "Random Acts of Poetry" around the arts district! Please keep your material radio-friendly (as anything outdoors during First Friday has to be all-ages appropriate) and find an unoccupied sidewalk corner to perform poetry for the uninitiated masses. :-)

03/02/2012

THIS MONTH'S SHOW HAS BEEN MOVED TO THE ARTS IN STARK EDUCATION CENTER! Apologies for the last minute change, but Cable Hall became unavailable to us due to other events taking place at the Cultural Center this weekend. The Arts in Stark Ed Center is located at 1014 Cleveland Avenue NW. It shares parking with the Cultural Center (or you can access a free parking lot via an alley off of 12th Street). The Ed Center is the yellow brick building (or tan brick, but saying "yellow brick" is fun) just north of the Civic Center's jumbotron screen.

Please note: While the Ed Center is wheelchair accessible through a back door and elevator, for security purposes that door will not be left open during the show. If you are unable to use the front entrance due to the stairs, please call Vertigo Xavier's cell phone when you arrive and someone will let you in the downstairs entrance. Vertigo's number is (330) eight-four-four-zero-one-seven-seven.

02/04/2012

GREAT show tonight! Big thanks to Eva Xanthopoulos for a great feature set, to everyone who read and competed in the slam, and to ArtsinStark for providing us with the amazing space to have the show in!

02/01/2012

This just in! This Friday's Poetry Spectacular will feature Eva Xanthopoulos! March 2nd's Poetry Spectacular will feature Jessica Skrzypiec, the poet Suspicious! April 6th's Poetry Spectacular will feature Marilyn Oliveras de Ortiz with Manancique! Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular is at Cable Hall in the Canton Cultural Center for the Arts (across the hall from the Canton Art Museum, by the Pegasus sculpture). Don't miss these awesome events!!!

01/27/2012

This just in: The featured poet at February 3rd's First Friday Poetry Spectacular will be Eva Xanthopoulos! Eva is the author of "The Artistic Muse," "Water Walker," and "The Poe-hemian Series" and co-founder of True Colors Press.

01/06/2012

Tonight is Canton First Friday!!! The Poetry Slam will be at Cable Hall in the Cultural Center (which is also home to the Canton Museum of Art)! Cash prizes thanks to ArtsinStark! We've got 220 seats to fill, so come one, come all, and bring all your friends!!! :-D

12/28/2011

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular will now take place at CABLE HALL at the Canton Cultural Center!!! (The Cultural Center is the building that houses the Canton Art Museum.)

11/30/2011

Due to lack of an available, suitable location, there will be NO Poetry Spectacular at December's Canton First Friday.

News will be posted when we have confirmed a location for January's poetry slam.

10/27/2011

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Offer expires on MONDAY!!!

10/24/2011

More changes for the First Friday Poetry Spectacular. We will not have a slam on November 4th, but will instead have poets performing all over the arts district as part of First Friday's Noteworthy November. The schedule of poets and locations will be announced soon.

09/29/2011

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09/02/2011

No feature this month, but TWO SLAMS! The second slam will be a qualifier for Cleveland's official spot at IWPS! See the event page for details!

09/02/2011

There will be no featured poet this month at the First Friday Poetry Spectacular, but we will still have our open-mic and poetry slam! Featured poets will return next month, stay tuned for announcements. (Hopefully, October's feature can be announced at tomorrow's show. :-)

08/06/2011

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular on Ustream

Wow! That was a real nail-biter! Too many poets tied, we had to do a second round instead of a DEATH MATCH, and we still ended up with a tie for second! Jacob King and Brigid Brockway were tied for second, and T.M. Gottl is Canton's August Slam Champion! Missed the show? Watch it on USTREAM!

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular @ USTREAM: Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular! Open-mic, featured poets, and poetry slam competition!.

08/05/2011

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular on Ustream

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular on Ustream

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular @ USTREAM: Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular! Open-mic, featured poets, and poetry slam competition!.

06/29/2011

CHALK THE WALK 2011 & POETRY TO THE PEOPLE!

05/07/2011

June's First Friday Poetry feature will be Terry Provost! This will be our last Poetry Spectacular at 2nd April Galerie & Studios and The Kathleen Howland Theatre. In July, we will be taking poetry to the streets, performing all over the arts district. In August we will move the show to the Citizen X Canton/Canton BRsq performance space.

01/23/2011

PoetsHaven.com

FYI: Four poems by Jacob King just published at PoetsHaven.com!

Surface Beauty (Chilean Miners' Request Before Rescue)
by Jacob King

01/09/2011

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular - December 3, 2010

Footage from December's Canton First Friday Poetry Spectacular, featuring Robert Miltner and slam winners Theresa Göttl, Rubin Williams, and Dan Nicholson! Thanks to ArtsinStark and Canton BRsq!

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular December 3, 2010 Featured Poet: Robert Miltner Poetry Slam First Place - Dan Nicholson Second Place - Rubin Williams Third Place - T.M. Göttl Tonight's Featured Poet brought to you by BR Square www.BRsq.org Prize money provided by Arts in Stark www.artsin

01/09/2011

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular - November 5, 2010

Footage from November's Canton First Friday Poetry Spectacular, featuring
Trenchcoat Manifesto and slam winners Theresa Göttl, Arija Lee, and Charles Lee! Thanks to ArtsinStark and Canton BRsq!

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular November 5, 2010 Featured Performers: Trenchcoat Manifesto Poetry Slam First Place - Charles Lee Second Place - Arija Lee Third Place - T.M. Göttl Tonight's Featured Poet brought to you by BR Square www.BRsq.org Prize money provided by Arts in Stark www.a

10/23/2010

Trenchcoat Manifesto - Hands Of The Tin Woodsman

Here's a video of Trenchcoat Manifesto, filmed this week at the Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza in Cleveland. Come see Trenchcoat Manifesto feature at the Canton First Friday Poetry Spectacular on November 5th! (Brought to you by ArtsinStark, Canton BRsq, and PoetsHaven.com.)

This performance was recorded October 20, 2010 at the Lix and Kix Poetry Extravaganza's 2nd annual F**k-the-format get in where you fit in poetic open mic free-for-all, hosted by Dianne Borsenik and John Burroughs and anchored by Cleveland poetry living legends Jim Lang and Ben Gulyas at Bela Dubby

10/08/2010

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular - October 1, 2010

October's Canton First Friday Poetry Spectacular video is now online, with featured poet Michael Salinger and slam winners Blu Lewis, Dan Nicholson, and Verry a.k.a. Bak Pak! Thanks again to Canton BRsq and ArtsinStark for their support! (Hey, look, I can fit a PoetsHaven.com tag in here, too!)

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular October 1, 2010 Featured Poet Michael Salinger Poetry Slam (includes POETRY DEATH MATCH) First Place - Blu Second Place - Dan Nicholson Third Place - Verry a.k.a. Bak Pak Tonight's Featured Poet brought to you by BR Square www.BRsq.org Priz...

10/07/2010

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular - September 3, 2010

Here's highlights from September's Canton First Friday Poetry Spectacular, featuring Sara Holbrook and slam winners Blu Lewis, Dan Nicholson, and Mary A. Turzillo! Thanks to ArtsinStark and Canton BRsq for sponsoring this event!

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular September 3, 2010 Featured Poet Sara Holbrook Poetry Slam First Place - Blu Second Place - Dan Nicholson Third Place - Mary Turzillo Tonight's Featured Poet brought to you by BR Square www.BRsq.org Prize money provided by Arts in Stark ww...

10/07/2010

More videos will be posted soon. Uploading to YouTube is VERY slow. Massillon Cable (at home) sucks for uploading. September's would be done already, but unfortunately the bar closed before it finished uploading and my laptop's battery died before I even got to the car.

10/07/2010

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular - August 6, 2010

Finally getting some videos posted! Check out highlights from August's Canton First Friday Poetry Spectacular, featuring Phoenix Newsh*t Clouden and slam winners John Burroughs, Dan Nicholson, and Blu Lewis. Thanks to ArtsinStark and Canton BRsq

Canton's First Friday Poetry Spectacular August 6, 2010 Featured Poet Phoenix Andre Clouden Poetry Slam First Place - John Burroughs Second Place - Dan Nicholson Third Place - Blu Tonight's Featured Poet brought to you by BR Squared www.BRsq.org Prize money provided by Arts in Stark www.artsinst...

10/03/2010

Experimentation is always a fun thing. Sometimes the results are good. (Having the open-mic first worked well.) Sometimes the results are not-so-good. (Having a 12 year old judge the slam didn't work out so well.) Repeat what works, learn from what didn't.

09/17/2010

Notice: Starting with October 1st's First Friday Poetry Spectacular, we're going to rearrange the show. You should still get there at 7:00 to sign up, but the open-mic will now begin at 7:30. Once the open-mic begins, the list is closed, so get there on time to sign up.