Join us in the PEACE Park as Coventry Branch and Mac’s Backs Bookstore present an outdoor summer poetry series

July's reading features poets: Charlene Fix, Megan Neville and Kevin Risner.

Charlene Fix

Charlene Fix is the author of the poetry collections Frankenstein’s Flowers (WordTech Communications, 2014), Greatest Hits (Kattywompus Press, 2012), and Flowering Bruno (XOXOX Press, 2006). She is an emeritus professor of English at Columbus College of Art and Design and lives in Columbus, Ohio.

Megan Neville

Megan Neville is a writer and educator based in Northeast Ohio. She holds two degrees from Kent State University and is a National Writing Project Teacher Consultant. Her work has appeared in West Branch, Pleiades, Cherry Tree, Poets.org, McSweeney's, and other publications

Kevin Risner

Kevin A Risner is a Cleveland-born writer who has spent the majority of his life in Ohio, minus a few short years in England and Turkey.

He is author of My Ear is a Sieve (Bottlecap Press, 2017), Lucid (The Poetry Annals, 2018), Five Seconds Could Last Five Years (self-published in 2020), Do Us a Favor (Variant Literature, 2021), You Thought This Was Just Gonna Be About Cleveland, Didn’t You (Ghost City Press, 2022), It’s Easy To Lose Your Breath (Match Factory Editions, 2026), and There’s No Future Where We Don’t Have Fire (Unsolicited Press, 2027).