Adrian Schnall, Gianna Somrak, and Matt Waxman

Name: Adrian Schnall, Gianna Somrak, and Matt Waxman
Start: 2026-04-08T19:00:00-04:00
End: 2026-04-08T20:00:00-04:00
Location: 1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118

Schedule

Wed Apr 08 2026 at 07:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118 | Cleveland Heights, OH

Poets Adrian Schnall, Gianna Somrak and Matt Waxman will read at Mac's followed by an open mic on Wednesday, April 8th at 7 pm.
Adrian Schnall devoted four decades to caring for patients as a practicing physician and teaching medical students, for which he received several teaching awards at CWRU School of Medicine. Since his retirement he has found equal joy in returning to poetry
and literature full-time. His poetry has appeared in multiple journals, including Amethyst Review, JAMA, Muddy River Poetry Review, Oberon Poetry Magazine, and Poetica. His debut poetry chapbook Afterglow (Finishing Line Press) came out in October 2025.
Gianna J. Somrak, native to Highland Heights, Ohio, is a poet, writer, and first-year NEOMFA candidate. She received her BA in creative writing and BS in psychology from Baldwin Wallace University. Her work has appeared in BWU's The Mill Journal 2022-2023, 2023-2024, and 2024-2025 editions, Radio on the Lake Theatre, and Cleveland.com. She enjoys journaling, baking bread, and rewatching Netflix's Stranger Things in her spare time.
Matt Waxman is an Ohio-born writer whose work navigates topics including politics, ecopoetics, metaphysics, and grief. After years spent exploring the West with his two cats, Phynx and Arya, he will relocate yet again in the fall of 2026 to begin his MFA in poetry.