Lit Youngstown to host poets Burroughs, Chernin
YOUNGSTOWN — Lit Youngstown will host poets John Burroughs and Shelley Chernin at 7 p.m. Jan. 8 at the Soap Gallery, 117 S. Champion St.
The reading will be followed by an open mic hosted by Rae McCann. The reading is free and open to the public.
Burroughs, of Cleveland, recently was honored as the 2019-2021 Beat Poet Laureate for Ohio. He serves as the founding editor for Crisis Chronicles Press and is the author of a dozen books, including, most recently, "Rattle and Numb: Selected Poems 1992-2019."
Chernin is a freelance writer of legal reference books, an environmental activist and a ukulele enthusiast. She is the author of "The Vigil." Her poems have appeared in many journals and anthologies, and she was awarded second place in the 2011 Hessler Street Fair Poetry Contest and received honorable mention twice in the Akron Art Museum's New Words Poetry Contest.
Lit Youngstown is a nonprofit dedicated to writers, readers and storytellers. For more information, visit LitYoungstown.org.
This story was originally published December 30, 2019 at 5:18 AM with the headline "Lit Youngstown to host poets Burroughs, Chernin."