Iain Haley Pollock & Blanche Saffron Kabengele & an Open Mic

Schedule

Tue Feb 03 2026 at 07:00 pm to 09:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

1660 Blue Rock St, Cincinnati, OH, United States, Ohio 45223 | Cincinnati, OH

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Don't miss this one! Iain Haley Pollock is traveling from the Hudson River Valley to share his stellar poetry with us, and local poet Blanche Kabengele opens the featured event. Bring a poem to share in the open mic!
✍️ IAIN HALEY POLLOCK has written three poetry collections, most recently All the Possible Bodies, which was published by Alice James Books in 2025. His work has received recognition from the Cave Canem Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Poetry Society of America. He directs the MFA Program in Creative Writing at Manhattanville University in Purchase, NY.
✍️ BLANCHE KABENGELE, a poet from the West End of Cincinnati, is the author of Conjugal Relationships of Africans and African Americans, and Quiet as it's Kept, Me Too, and Other Poetic Expressions of Life! She holds a doctorate from UC, and has poems in The Prose Poem, The Woolf and the WAYE.
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