Apparently, there’s something about January. For the 2nd year in a row, I’ve been asked to feature read in this frozen lead-off month, to get the ball rolling on the 2010 literary year here in town. Or so I tell myself.

This Wednesday January 13th, I’ll be reading at Mac’s Backs Books on Coventry in Cleveland Hts. with Claire McMahon and Virginia Konchan.

Here’s the promo:

Miles Budimir is the author of Rustbelt Romance (deepcleveland press, 2006) and Missing Albertly (Green Panda Press, 2008). His poetry has appeared in Poetry Motel, MoonLit, ArtCrimes, Muse and the Hessler Street Poetry Anthology. A philosophy lecturer and freelance writer, his writing has also appeared in the Plain Dealer, The Free Times and Northern Ohio Live magazine.

A recent graduate of the NEOMFA, Virginia Konchan’s poetry and translations have appeared or are forthcoming in The Believer, The New Republic, Notre Dame Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Jacket, A Trunk of Delirium. She regularly contributes reviews at ForeWord Magazine and the Rumpus—other reviews have recently appeared in Rain Taxi and The Boston Review of Books. A practicing visual artist, the latest solo exhibition of her paintings was at the CSU Art Gallery last fall. She teaches at Lorain County Community College and lives in Cleveland.

Claire McMahon, Ph.D, has an MFA in Writing and Poetics from Naropa University (The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics in Boulder) and a Ph.D. in 20th Century American and British Poetry from KSU. She is co-editor of MoonLit poetry journal and the author of Emergency Contact (Van Zeno Press, 2009). She has taught English writing courses at Lake Erie College, Baldwin Wallace, Tri-C and Chancellor University. She is currently an assistant professor of English and Chair of the First Year Experience Program at  Chancellor.

Come on out and celebrate the mercury surpassing the freezing point (if the weather forecasts hold up.) You’ll be glad you did.