George Wallace at the Barking Spider in Cleveland, 8 May 2009

Video features poet George Wallace reading on 9 May 2009 at The Lit in Cleveland, Ohio, during Tres Versing the Panda: Three Days of Poetry Soiree. Filmed by Jesus Crisis. Event sponsored by Green Panda Press (Cleveland Heights) and The Temple, Inc. Find more George Wallace at www.poetrybay.com George Wallace, Suffolk County’s First Poet Laureate, is an award winning poet and journalist from New York who has performed his work across America and in the great cities of Europe. He is co-host of PoetryBrook, a SUNY Stony Brook poetry radio show which is streamed live on the worldwide web at www.wusb.org Thursdays at 6 pm In 2000, he founded Poetrybay, a prestigious online poetry publication which was selected in 2004 by Stanford U. for archiving and distribution through the world-wide LOCKSS program. Creator of the four-city Big Sur Marathon in 2001 (see Offbeat, David Amram, Thunders Mouth Press, 02, pp 236-244), and the Nesenkeag Benefit, he has been invited to read his work for such events and venues as the Norfolk Poetry Festival, Norwich, International Poetry Festival, London; Ways With Words, Lake District (UK); Shakespeare & Co, Paris (FR); and Biblioteca Civica, Parma, Odradek, Rome, Centro Trevi, Bolzano (IT).

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