Poet Neil Carpathios read from his latest book of poetry during a Poetry Reading in the new Reading Nook of the Library.
Maybe all the sadness everywhere
is God playing dead so we’ll give him
mouth to mouth.
Maybe all He wants is a kiss.
(from “At This Moment”- At The Axis of Imponderables)
Neil is the author of three full-length poetry collections: Playground of Flesh, At the Axis of Imponderables (winner of the Quercus Review Book Award), and Beyond the Bones—as well as several award-winning chapbooks. His poetry has appeared in many anthologies and journals, such as Poetry, The Georgia Review, and the recent Pomegranate Seeds: An Anthology of Greek-American Poetry. He has received fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and several Pushcart Prize nominations.He teaches English and creative writing at Shawnee State University in Portsmouth, Ohio.
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