Cleveland Public Library
325 Superior Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44114
United States
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Award-winning poet Kathy Fagan will read from Sycamore and her previous works beginning at 12 p.m. Saturday, June 16, in the Literature Department. After a brief Q&A, there will be an open mic for others, snacks, refreshments and prizes. LEARN MORE
Kathy Fagan
Kathy Fagan is the author of Bad Hobby and Sycamore, a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award, as well as four previous collections including The Charm, the National Poetry Series-winning The Raft, and Vassar Miller Prize-winner MOVING & ST RAGE. A former NEA fellow, she is currently the Director of Creative Writing and the MFA program at Ohio State University, and Poetry Editor for OSU Press.
The language of trees is the language of love and loss: in this collection, black walnuts fall where no one can eat or smell them, and cottonwood sends out feverish signals of pollen. And like the bark of the sycamore, which sheds to allow the tree’s expansion, these poems document both pain and tenuous rebirth.