It’s been a loooong, cold snowy weekend. You’ve been trapped indoors itching to get out among your fellow humans. Looking for something, anything, to do other than watching your hundredth DVD or playing the hundredth game of Wii bowling.

Well, here’s your chance. Come on out tomorrow night to the Bertram Woods Branch of the Shaker Library (20600 Fayette Road, Shaker Heights, Ohio 44122:  216.991.2421) for some aural stimulation. I’ll be spinning yarns along with poets Mario Kujawski and Dan Rourke. The fun starts at 7.

Poetry Back in the Woods
Tuesday January 13, 2009
7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Bertram Woods Branch

Miles Budimir is a Cleveland area writer and poet and author of a chapbook, Rustbelt Romance (2006, deep Cleveland Press). His poetry has most recently appeared in Muse and The Hessler Street Fair Poetry Anthology. He is a contributing writer for Northern Ohio Live magazine and his writing has also appeared in The Plain Dealer and The Cleveland Free Times.

Mario Kujawski was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and educated in Germany and the United States. He received a B.A. from Brown University, and an M.A. from Ohio State University. He is certified in mental health and mental retardation by the State of Ohio. A retired professor from Kent State University, Mario Kujawski is presently teaching privately and at the Beck Center for the Arts. He has also served as a visiting visual artist for the Cleveland School System. He is an Archived Artist at the Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, and his work appears in both private and public collections.

Dan Rourke is a former high school English teacher at Laurel School and St. Ignatius, and a former editor at Northern Ohio Live magazine. Now he writes. His muse is boredom and his private motivators are decaf coffee and this month`s rent check. He lives in Cleveland Heights.