COFFEE & POETRY AT JACK'S HOUSE FEATURING RAY MCNIECE & JANE ROSS FALLON

The House that Jack Built is pleased to feature Internationally acclaimed poet Ray McNiece and special guest Jane Ross Fallon. There will be a $10 Cover Charge featuring baked goods from Chef Shelley.

Ray's Bio:
Ray McNiece has authored eleven books of poems and monologues and CDs, most recently Love Song for Cleveland, a collaboration with photographer Tim Lachina and Breath Burns Away, New Haiku. (Red Giant Press) In a review of his second theatre work, Us? Talking Across America, the Star-Phoenix said, “His thoughtful writing combines with perfectly timed delivery to create a powerful wordscape that owes as much to jazz as drama.” He is a two time National Poetry Slam Champion with Boston and Cleveland teams. He has toured Italy twice with Beat poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. He fronts the improv band, Tongue-in-Groove. He has received a Creative Work Force Fellowship, a CPAC grant and residencies at The Cuyahoga Valley National Park and the Jack Kerouac House. He was the 10th Poet Laureate of Cleveland Heights. He received the Cleveland Arts Prize Lifetime Achievement Award in 2021. He was Awarded a $50,000 Poet Laureate Grant from the American Academy of Poetry for his Poem for Cleveland Project in 2022 from which the anthology “Poem For Cleveland” was created.

Jane's Bio:
Jane is a folk phenomenon who will sing her tribute to Jack Kerouac in this exclusive presentation. She is a veteran performer whose smooth, rich voice and well-written songs get noticed. With vocals that have been called “angelic” and “mesmerizing”, by Boston's Metronome magazine, her original songs “combine humor, intelligence, and deep musicality with an artfulness that is unusual.” (Wildy's Word Music blog).

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