Lit Youngstown to host two poetry readings in August

Lit Youngstown will host two free poetry readings in August, both at Westside Bowl in the lower level Trophy Room.

First Wednesday Readers Series

The First Wednesday Readers Series presents Cleveland poets Gina Tabasso and Russell Vidrick at 7 p.m. Aug. 2.

Julie Cancio Harper will co-host the First Wednesday reading, which will be followed by an open mic.

Rust Belt City Poetry Tour

In addition, the Rust Belt City Poetry Tour will take place Aug. 10. The tour will feature six poets.

The tour will feature Jason Baldinger (Pittsburgh), Mitch and Angel James (Cleveland), Jonie McIntire (Toledo), Karen Schubert (Youngstown), and Paul Trombley (Detroit).

“The Rust Belt City Tour is the offspring of a night filled with literary readings and rounds of stouts and Irish whiskey at the Galic Club in Detroit,” said organizer Mitch James. “The tentative plan at the time was to corral a bevy of rust belt writers around a lone microphone on a single night consecutively for five nights, beginning in Detroit and making our way south to Toledo, Cleveland, Youngstown, and Pittsburgh.”

The series begins in Detroit August 7 and ends in Pittsburgh August 11.

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