Ohio Poet Laureate to Visit 'Berg
Cleveland-based poet Dave Lucas will be at Heidelberg on Wednesday, March 13, for a reading of his poetry at 3 p.m. in the University Commons.
Lucas’ visit is the second in the spring semester Jean Warren Gekler Writer’s Series, hosted by the School of Communication, Humanities & the Arts.
Lucas was born and raised in Cleveland. He studied literature and poetry at John Carroll University (2002), the University of Virginia (MFA, 2004) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D., 2014). His first book of poems, Weather (2011), received the Ohioana Book Award for Poetry.
Named by Rita Dove as one of 13 "young poets to watch," Lucas has also received a Discovery/The Nation Prize and a Cleveland Arts Prize. In 2018, he was appointed the second poet laureate of the state of Ohio. A co-founder of Cleveland Book Week and Brews + Prose at Market Garden Brewery, he lives in Cleveland where he teaches at Case Western Reserve University.
The series is coordinated by Dr. Lucy Biederman. Contact her at lbiederma@heidelberg.edu for additional information.
February 27, 2019
