Join Literary Cleveland and poet Michelle R. Smith for a FREE all ages celebration of the emancipation of America's historically enslaved black ancestry in art and community.

Poets of all forms and levels welcome!

Host: Michelle R. Smith is a writer, poet, educator, cultural facilitator, and native Clevelander. She is the Programming Director for Literary Cleveland. She is the author of the poetry collections Ariel in Black (2015) and The Vagina Analogues (2020). She has been published in poemmemoirstory, Meridians: feminism, race, transnationalism, The Normal School, The Gasconade Review, New Note Poetry, Merge Magazine, and io Literary Magazine. She is also the creator, co-producer, and director of BLAX MUSEUM, an annual performance showcase for Northeast Ohio artists open to all forms and dedicated to honoring notable black figures in American history and culture. 

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