Poetry in the Woods

Poetry in the Woods
Tuesday November 13,
2012
7:00 PM - 8:45 PM
Bertram Woods Branch

Enjoy poetry read by regional poets, Maj Ragain and Jason Mikes.

Maj Ragain was born September 15, 1940, in
Olney, southeastern Illinois.

The poem, made of language on hand, in and by hand. Education, the paved road out of town. Poetry, that dirt road winding back home. Poetry, a slip knot, bridging solitude and community, a way to offer one’s longings to the world.

Maj has taught at Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, off
and on, since 1969. For nearly thirty years, he has hosted open poetry readings in Kent, at the Brady Café, the North Water Street Gallery and, presently, at the Last Exit Bookstore. A Hungry Ghost Surrenders His Tackle Box is Maj’s fifth, and latest, collection of poems.

Jason Mikes grew up in Minerva, Ohio farm country. He learned to find poems growing in his dad’s boot prints in Miller’s Woods, in the doorway of the church house on Fox Avenue, along the tracks of the Minerva Scenic Railway, in a pan under Black Water Falls, in the moon sand of
the North Carolina Atlantic, in the glove box of a ’70 Impala, and in the floorboards of Brady’s Café. He keeps all of them close and remains faithful to the search. He is a preacher, fisherman, musician and an English teacher at
Minerva High School, who now lives in Hartville, Ohio with his wife Suzie and their four children.

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