Paging Columbus

04/28/2022

Tonight at TDR! Book launch for Negesti Kaudo’s debut essay collection, RIPE

Doors open @ 7:30pm | Reading @ 8pm

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Negesti Kaudo's Book Launch for "Ripe"

05/27/2020

Stoked to have Gretchen Lida read for Paging Columbus: Space & Solitude, along with so many other brilliant folks! Check out our page on June 5th, 7:30pm ET for the live stream.
About Gretchen:
Gretchen Lida is an essayist and an equestrian. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Rumpus, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and many other publications. She is also a contributing writer to Book Riot, Horse Network, and the Washington Independent. She is working on her first book. She lives in Chicago and is still a Colorado Native.

05/24/2020

Darren Demaree will be reading at Paging Columbus: Space & Solitude and we couldn't be more thrilled! The event will be live streamed on FB Friday, June 5th, 7:30pm. Hope to see you all there!

Darren C. Demaree is the author of thirteen poetry collections, most recently “So Clearly Beautiful”, (November 2019, Adelaide Books). He is the recipient of a 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, the Louis Bogan Award from Trio House Press, and the Nancy Dew Taylor Award from Emrys Journal. He is the Managing Editor of the Best of the Net Anthology and Ovenbird Poetry. He is currently living in Columbus, Ohio with his wife and children.

05/22/2020

Super honored to have Ruth Awad read at Paging Columbus: Space & Solitude! To hear Ruth read alongside other brilliant authors, check out our page for the live stream on June 5th, 7:30 p.m. ET. About Ruth:

Ruth Awad is the Lebanese-American author of Set to Music a Wildfire (Southern Indiana Review Press, 2017), winner of the 2016 Michael Waters Poetry Prize and the 2018 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry. Alongside Rachel Mennies, she is the co-editor of The Familiar Wild: On Dogs and Poetry (Sundress Publications, 2020). She is the recipient of a 2020 and 2016 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, and she won the 2013 and 2012 Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Poetry Prize and the 2011 Copper Nickel Poetry Contest. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Believer, The New Republic, Pleiades, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She has an MFA in poetry from Southern Illinois University Carbondale, and she lives and writes in Columbus, Ohio.

02/11/2020

"I know that what feels real to me / wears the anchors and bungee cords / of my love." (from "Trawl")

Hannah Stephenson is one of the most lovable writers in Columbus -- a poet to the core, a community builder, a kind soul -- and she created Paging Columbus with an abundance of love for this city and all of the writers and artists that make up this creative community. Our next reading will be Hannah's last Paging Columbus (at least for a while). There couldn't be a better way for everyone to show their love than to come to Two Dollar Radio HQ this Thursday at 7pm and hear Hannah read her fine work at Paging Columbus: Love Letters.

https://ovenbirdpoetry.com/trawl/

02/11/2020

Enormous congrats to the winners here, who are too numerous to tag individually. So proud of the brilliance here in our state!!!

02/10/2020

So honored to have Rose Smith back to read for Paging Columbus this Thursday! In the meantime, check out her poem "Happy Hour."

Let's say this Killian's® is her firstand not her third on a Monday-night emptystomach halfway home but stopped,side-burrowed into a tight, two-person boothat Old Bag o' Nails after battered pickles.

02/08/2020

Love this poem by Will Evans--WILDLIFE--in the Adroit.

What's also lovable? Will is coming back to Paging Columbus to read at our February event: 2/13, 7pm, Two Dollar Radio HQ. We'll see all you lovebirds there.

William Evans is a writer from Columbus, Ohio, the founder of the Writing Wrongs Poetry Slam (September 2008), and a Callaloo Fellow. In addition to being the editor-in-chief of Blacknerdproblems.com, William has published two collections of poetry with Penmanship Books, with a third collection, Sti...

02/06/2020

If you haven't indulged yet, this essay by Lesley Jenike, "I Have Drunk and Seen the Spider" is simply brilliant.

Come check out Lesley's new work (& that of other super stars) at our next Paging Columbus event: Feb. 13, 7pm, Two Dollar Radio HQ.

I Have Drunk and Seen the Spider Lesley Jenike   “We both cry all the time, and then what we do, we cry, and we take our tears, and   we put ’em in the ice box, in the goddamn ice trays until they’re all frozen and then…   we put them…in our…drinks.” —Edward Albee, Who’...

02/04/2020

Amazing reading by Dionne Custer Edwards in collaboration with Mark Lomax at Drumversations.

Come see Dionne and other fine folks read at Two Dollar Radio, Feb. 13 at 7pm for Paging Columbus: Love Letters.

  Thanks to Mark Lomax (percussion), Barbara Fant (poet), Scott Woods (poet), and Carnell Willoughby (Emcee) photo: Scott Woods