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Author’s Night
Features Ohio Poet of the Year
The Friends of the Library’s Author’s Night series continues on Friday
March 27th with a wonderful treat - the Ohio Poet of the Year David Lee
Garrison. David will read from Playing Bach in the DC Metro,
discuss his art form, and answer questions from the audience. Be
sure to attend and enjoy firsthand this award winning poet.
Author’s Night is always held at Montage Cafe in downtown Greenville
with live music provided by the illustrious J.R. Price and Bill
Westfall. Doors open at 6:00 with plenty of time to have a bite
or a glass - with the program at 7:00. David’s books will be
available.
David taught Spanish and Portuguese at Wright State from 1979 to 2009
and is now retired. He’s published translations of many Spanish
poets and his own poems have appeared widely in journals such as
Connecticut Review, Poem, and Rattle, and also in several anthologies.
Two poems from his book, Sweeping the Cemetery, were read by Garrison
Keillor on The Writer’s Almanac, and one was included in Keillor’s Good
Poems, American Places. The title poem from his book, Playing
Bach in the D. C. Metro, was featured by Ted Kooser on his website,
American Life in Poetry.
David says “My main goal is to communicate, so I create poems that are
not hard to understand with a first reading. My poems emerge mainly
from memories, as I fashion bits and pieces of my past into
fictionalized configurations in a search for something more meaningful,
more transcendent than my personal experience.”
He lives in Dayton with his wife Suzanne Kelly-Garrison. They
are both members of The Greenville Poets and have read at
Author’s Night in the past.
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