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Meredith Holmes: 2015-16 Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate
The Heights Arts Board, through its Heights Writes Committee, is pleased to announce the selection of Meredith Holmes as the seventh City of Cleveland Heights Poets Laureate.
Meredith served for one year as the first Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate in 2005 and will serve her second, one-year term from May, 2015 through April, 2016. Her poems have been published in journals, including, most recently, Flyover Country Review and Literary Mama. Meredith’s poems have also appeared in several anthologies, including Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times; the Kattywompus Press collection While You Were Sleeping I Dreamt a Poem; Awake at the End, published by Heights Arts and Bottom Dog Press; and the upcoming How Higher Education Feels, edited by Dr. Kathleen Quinlan. Her book, Shubad’s Crown, was published in 2003 by Pond Road Press. A second book of poems, Familiar at First, Then Strange also published by Pond Road Press, is due out in 2015.
Meredith served for one year as the first Cleveland Heights Poet Laureate in 2005 and will serve her second, one-year term from May, 2015 through April, 2016. Her poems have been published in journals, including, most recently, Flyover Country Review and Literary Mama. Meredith’s poems have also appeared in several anthologies, including Garrison Keillor’s Good Poems for Hard Times; the Kattywompus Press collection While You Were Sleeping I Dreamt a Poem; Awake at the End, published by Heights Arts and Bottom Dog Press; and the upcoming How Higher Education Feels, edited by Dr. Kathleen Quinlan. Her book, Shubad’s Crown, was published in 2003 by Pond Road Press. A second book of poems, Familiar at First, Then Strange also published by Pond Road Press, is due out in 2015.