Lit Youngstown presents poets for reading
Staff report
Ai Black and Dana Reeher will be the featured poets at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event.
Black is the author of the poetry chapbook “If It Heals At All” (Jacar Press, 2020) and “We Look Better Alive” (Burnside Review Press, 2025). Her writing has appeared in The Atticus Review, jubilat, Literary Hub, The Offing, The Adroit Journal and elsewhere.
Black, who lives in Cleveland, is the co-founder of Balance Point Studios, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making, teaching and sharing art.
Reeher, who lives in Hermitage, Pa., is the author of “Code Domesticity,” her first poetry collection. Her poems have appeared in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
She works full time as a nurse practitioner while also working as an adjunct professor at Baylor University.
The reading starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Westside Bowl, 2617 Mahonining Ave., Youngstown, in its Trophy Room, which is accessible only by stairs. It will be followed by an open mic.
Admission is free. ALS interpretation will be provided by Meagan Albani, with support from the Raymond J. Wean Foundation. For more information, go to lityoungstown.org.
Lit Youngstown presents poets for reading
Ai Black and Dana Reeher will be the featured poets at Lit Youngstown’s next First Wednesday Reader Series event.
Black is the author of the poetry chapbook “If It Heals At All” (Jacar Press, 2020) and “We Look Better Alive” (Burnside Review Press, 2025). Her writing has appeared in The Atticus Review, jubilat, Literary Hub, The Offing, The Adroit Journal and elsewhere.
Black, who lives in Cleveland, is the co-founder of Balance Point Studios, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making, teaching and sharing art.
Reeher, who lives in Hermitage, Pa., is the author of “Code Domesticity,” her first poetry collection. Her poems have appeared in Intima: A Journal of Narrative Medicine.
She works full time as a nurse practitioner while also working as an adjunct professor at Baylor University.
The reading starts at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Westside Bowl, 2617 Mahonining Ave., Youngstown, in its Trophy Room, which is accessible only by stairs. It will be followed by an open mic.
Admission is free. ALS interpretation will be provided by Meagan Albani, with support from the Raymond J. Wean Foundation. For more information, go to lityoungstown.org.