CLOSING READING (today) and city poetry MODERN BOHEMIANS reading (tomorrow)
Busy weekend!
Oct 20 - 6 - 9 p.m. Art show closing reading at Collinwood Arts Center. Featuring the art of Jeff Chiplis and Jacob Lang - Closing blog reading by the Smiths - 15605 Waterloo Rd Cleveland, OH Collinwood Arts Center.
Oct 21 - 3 p.m. - Cleveland - Modern Bohemians: City Poetry Contributors Reading hosted by Kathy Ireland Smith - Mac’s Backs Bookstore. This is part of the weekend festival celebrating Jack Kerouac. Organized by Mac’s Backs. ALL CITY POETRY CONTRIBUTORS ARE INVITED TO READ OR PRESENT!
Here’s more information about the Jack Kerouac Festival - there are events all weekend!
October in the Railroad Earth: Celebrating 50 Years of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road
www.macsbacks.com
Several Cleveland bookstores are collaborating to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the publication On The Road by Jack Kerouac.
October in the Railroad Earth: Celebrating 50 Years of Jack Kerouac’s On the Road will take place from Friday, October 19th to Sunday October 21st and will feature readings, multimedia presentations, music and a marathon reading of the novel throughout the weekend.
The events kicks off with an opening reception at Visible Voice Books (1023 Kenilworth) in Tremont on Friday, October 19th at 7:30 p.m. The evening will feature video clips of Jack Kerouac and a chapter by chapter reading of the first half of On the Road. A 1947 Cadillac will be parked out front and will travel to different locations all weekend. Food and beverages will be available. The Bookstore on W. 25th Street (1921 W. 25th St.) in Ohio City will feature readings with music and audio clips from Kerouac reading on Saturday, October 20th from noon-4 p.m and the reading of On the Road will continue.
The Barking Spider Tavern (11310 Juniper Rd.) on the CWRU campus will host a poetry and jazz collaboration on Saturday October 20th from 5-8 p.m. Participants will read from a variety of Kerouac’s works accompanied by jazz musicians. Several audio clips from The Jack Kerouac Collection will be played, including Kerouac reading October in the Railroad Earth. Food and beverages will be available.
On Sunday, October 21st, Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry (1820 Coventry Rd.) in Cleveland Heights will sponsor the reading of the last part of On the Road on Sunday, October 21st from 10-2 p.m. at the sitting stones on the towpath trail of the Ohio & Erie Canal, part of the Cleveland Metroparks on 49th St. between Canal and Grant.
The location is just below the gigantic railroad trestle spanning the Cuyahoga valley—–just a walk down the slope from the Canalways Visitor Center.
The weekend finale will be at Mac’s from 3-6 p.m. on Sunday Modern Bohemians: City Poetry Zine Reading will feature contributors to the City online art & poetry magazine edited by Kathy Ireland Smith.
On the Road was published by Viking Press in 1957 and the title still sells 100,000 copies a year. The book was written by Kerouac in three weeks on a typed, single space scroll. Jack Kerouac died on October 21st, 1969.
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