Spoken & Heard is a seasonal series of literary events hosted by Kari Gunter-Seymour, Poet Laureate of Ohio, featuring award-winning authors, poets and singer/songwriters from across the country. September features authors from ‘Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology.’
“Let Me Say This”: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology
Edited by Julie E. Bloemeke & Dustin Brookshire
Let Me Say This: A Dolly Parton Poetry Anthology offers 54 poets’ takes on often-unsung facets of this diamond in a rhinestone world—calling in Dolly’s impeccable comedic timing, her lyric mastery, her business acumen, and her Dollyverse advocacy. These poems remind us to be better and to do better, to subvert Dolly cliché, and they encourage us to weave Dolly metaphor into our own family lore. Within these pages, Dolly takes the stage and the dinner table; readers see the public Dolly of the silver screen and the private Dolly of identity contemplation. Dolly raises praise and question, and she butterflies into our hearts to unabashedly to claim the mantra In Dolly We Trust.
READERS: David-Matthew Barnes, Julie E. Bloemeke, Dustin Brookshire, Prhillip Brown, Denise Duhamel, Rupert Fike, Diamond Forde, Kari Gunter-Seymour, Robert Gwaltney, Collin Kelley, Chin-Sun Lee, Lynn Melnick, Jenny Molberg, Rachel Morgan, Caridad Moro-Gronlier , L.J. Sysko, Kerry Trautman
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ABC Players presents Tiny Beautiful Things
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Based on the New York Times bestselling book by Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things explores Strayed's time as the anonymous, unpaid advice columnist Dear Sugar.
Mozart and Beethoven with the Columbus Symphony
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The Columbus Symphony showcases two of the great composers from the classical period who changed music forever.
