mark s kuhar, aka markk
is a
cleveland, ohio-based writer, poet & editor
his . . .
prose and poetry have appeared in the following magazines, journals and ezines: whiskey island, northern ohio live, centerlight, the american srbobran, ohio on-line, big bridge, sidereality, the city, tin lustre mobile, american motor thought, litvert, muse apprentice guild, eratio, mannequin envy quarterly, studio 8, admit2, & cool cleveland. . .
also in the anthologies: "an eye for an eye makes the whole world blind: poets on 9/11" (regent press); "america zen" (bottom dog press); "action poetry" (litkicks press); the 2005 Hessler Anthology; "Cleveland in Prose and Poetry (League Press); "sometimes city undercovers" (bottle of smoke press/rose of sharon press); and "the long march of cleveland," "ornamental iron," "anthologese the next," "mac's turns a new trick," and "You Can't Hither Than That You Caint," (green panda press).
chapbook, "acrobats in catapult twist," is available through seven beers & a hedgehog press; chapbooks "laughing in the ruins of chippewa lake park," & "e40th & pain: poems from deep cleveland," are available on deep cleveland press; ebook of poetry, "fractured rapture," was published on poeticinhalation.com; poems have also been published as part of the 24th Street Irregular Press "poems-for-all" mini-poetry-book series, and the Bottom Dog Press Populist Poems series
he . . .
was an honorable mention winner in the Akron Art Museum's 2003 New Words Poetry Contest; and a 2006 PWLGC "Writers & Their Friends" show honoree.
has read his work on national public radio's local affiliate, WCPN 90.3 FM, & on george bilgere's poetry show "wordplay" on WJCU 88.7 FM
is the host of the deep cleveland poetry hour, a live monthly spoken-word event at borders bookstore, strongsville, ohio.
has published nonfiction in a wide variety of local & national business, consumer & on-line publications.
is a graduate of ohio university (BA 1980), athens, ohio, with a degree in english/creative writing.
is also the editor of ohio writer magazine.
is a former board member of the Medina County Arts Council.
read the interview piece: "fear and trembling in deep cleveland" which appeared in 3am magazine.
read the "tin lustre inner-view" which appeared in tin lustre mobile magazine.
Places where he has read poetry in and around the cleveland area . . .
borders books and music, strongsville; loganberry books, cleveland; gallery 324, downtown cleveland; shaker hts. public library; mac's backs, cleveland hts; oriana house rehab center, cleveland; the old jailhouse, kent; cleveland public library, downtown cleveland; wcpn fm, downtown cleveland; public square, downtown cleveland; mall c, downtown cleveland; public square, medina; medina country community library; the literary cafe, tremont; trinity cathedral, downtown cleveland; firelands college, vermilion; kent state university stark campus, canton; barking spider, cleveland; akron art museum,