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The CSU Poetry Center publishes joyful, profound, astonishing, complicated, and aesthetically diver Waltz, Allison Benis White, and Wendy Xu.

Cleveland State University Poetry Center was originally established in 1962 at the former Fenn College of Engineering to promote poetry through readings and community outreach. In 1971, it expanded its mission to become a national non-profit independent poetry press under the auspices of the Cleveland State University Department of English, and has since published over one-hundred-fifty titles. Th

e Poetry Center has retained its focus on publishing collections of contemporary poetry by established and emerging authors, while preserving its original legacy of providing educational outreach to the literary community of Northeast Ohio and maintaining a regular poetry reading series which now brings an average of fifteen poets a year from across the country to give public readings at Cleveland State University. The Poetry Center is committed to acquiring, through first-book and open-book competitions, stylistically distinctive and skillfully crafted collections from an aesthetically diverse range of authors. The Poetry Center is proud to have published works by such poets as David Baker, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, David Kirby, Thomas Lux, Thylias Moss, Claudia Rankine, Tim Seibles, and Franz Wright. Recent and forthcoming titles include collections by John Bradley, Lily Brown, Elyse Fenton, Emily Kendal Frey, Rebecca Hazelton, Rebecca Gayle Howell, Dora Malech, Shane McCrae, Helena Mesa, Phillip Metres, Zach Savich, Sandra Simonds, Mathias Svalina, Allison Titus, Liz Waldner, William D. The Poetry Center also serves as an educational resource for the undergraduate, MA, and MFA students at Cleveland State not only through its reading series but also by providing internship opportunities and involving students in both editorial and production aspects of literary publishing.

04/16/2025

Friday 4/25 at Transformer Station: Xan Forest Phillips, Ali Black, & Delilah McCrea! 💚

04/11/2025

Two weeks til the Cleveland Poetry Festival!!! 💚

03/25/2025

CSU's creative writing club will meet bi-weekly this semester! Join them for the next gathering on 4/1:

03/18/2025

3/28 7:30PM Sam Ace reads for an offsite with Rescue Press, Dorothy, FC2, Case Western, & CSU Poetry Center at 101-17 Studios 💚☀️ in LA at AWP

The CSUPC will also be at table T211 -- come say hi at the bookfair! 📚

01/22/2025

Thanks to CLMP for this generosity! 💚

January 21st, 2025CLMP Awards Small Press Future Fund Grants to 35 Publishers Formerly Distributed by SPDNew York, NY (January 21, 2025)—The Community of Literary Magazines and Presses (CLMP) has announced it will award $285,000 in grants to 35 literary publishers formerly distributed by Small Pre...

12/20/2024

"In his piercing afterword to Maya Abu Al-Hayyat’s novel No One Knows Their Blood Type, Palestinian translator Hazem Jamjoum asks, 'What do we center when we want to speak to us? When we’re not trying to tell others about what we fight against and what we fight for when we fight for freedom?'"

--No One Knows Their Blood Type reviewed at The Markaz Review 💚

Zahra Hankir reviews Hazem Jamjoum's English translation of Palestinian novelist Maya Abu Al-Hayyat's novel "No One Knows Their Blood Type."

12/19/2024

For Cleveland Heights poets:

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE October 21, 2024 Jeanne Li | [email protected] Heights Arts Seeks Applications for 12th Heights Poet Laureate Cleveland Heights, OH – Heights Arts, a multidisciplinary arts organization in Cleveland Heights, Ohio, is excited to announce the selection process for the.....

12/07/2024

If you're interested in applying to MFA programs this winter, consider the NEOMFA : Northeast Ohio Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing!

(The CSU Poetry Center offers graduate assistantships to students through the Cleveland State University gateway).

Applications for Fall 2025 are now open! Priority deadline is January 15!

The NEOMFA is accepting applications for the Fall 2025 semester with an upcoming deadline of January 15. Applicants in this cycle may enter as full-time students and may be considered for graduate and teaching assistantships. Creative portfolios are accepted in four genres: Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Playwriting. Applicants can enter the program through one of three gateway campuses: The University of Akron, Cleveland State University, or Kent State University.

The NEOMFA also will accept submissions from part-time applicants and other students not seeking funding through April 15.

Visit neomfa.org/apply or contact [email protected] for more information.

NEOMFA friends and family, help spread the word!

12/05/2024

"Turning a question into a statement can serve to bring the reader (and me as a writer), into the present. It’s an insistence on this is rather than what might be."

--Kristen Teztmann interviews Samuel Ace at Exclamation's Gauntlet 💚

“…an insistence on this is rather than what might be…”

11/16/2024

A friendly fall 🍂🕷️🍁 reminder that if you or your students are researching creative writing grad programs you might take a look at the NEOMFA.

At Cleveland State we’re lucky to have the Lighthouse Reading Series, the Writers at Work series, Playwrights Festival, and the CSU Poetry Center, which offers grad assistantships in small press editing and publishing. 🎉📓 🎆

In addition, the NEOMFA boasts three schools' worth of creative writing faculty and a great visiting writers series (recent guests have included Eugene Lim, Brian Broome, & Robyn Schiff).

Write to us with questions! Deadline: Jan 15th. 📚📝🔮🏃‍♀️

Our mission is to educate and inspire promising creative writers, while giving them the time and opportunity to develop their writing in a challenging and supportive environment. Located in the industrial Midwest, a rapidly changing and evolving part of the country, rich with history, imagery and st...

11/04/2024

Robyn Schiff + Alyssa Perry! November 15, CSU:

NEOMFA & Cleveland State University Poetry CenterPresent a Poetry Reading NEOMFA Visiting WriterRobyn Schiff with Alyssa Perry Hosted by Caryl Pagel Friday, November 15, 20247:00 pm Cleveland State UniversityParker Hannifin Hall Room 104 (PH 104)2258 Euclid AvenueCleveland, OH 44115 Free and open ...

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