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Poet and artist Peter Leon has been writing poetry and attending Cleveland area readings for over 30 years. His poems are rich in imagery and often deal with ancestral experience or the isolating effect of otherness. He has published several chapbooks including God is in Charge of the Universe (Green Panda 2008) Several poets will each read one of Peter's poems and one of their own poems on Wednesday, July 9th at 7 p.m. This reading will be followed by an open mic. Poets reading will be Bree, Adam Brodsky, Ben Gulyas, Holly Jensen, Jim Lang, Wendy Shaffer, Brian Taylor and Russ Vidrick.

James Browning, author of the hilarious novel The Fracking King will read at Mac's on Wednesday, July 16th at 7 p.m. Anne Caruso from the Northeast Ohio Sierra Club will also be on hand to discuss Ohio fracking issues. The Fracking King is a striking debut novel about boarding school, hardcore Scrabble, and fracking--a new kind of environmental novel by an important voice in the debate about fracking in America. When the tap water at the Hale Boarding School for Boys bursts into flames, people blame fracking. Life at Hale has always been fraught--the swim test consists of being thrown into the pool with wrists and ankles tied, and a boy can be expelled if he and a girl keep fewer than "three feet on the floor." But the sight of combustible drinking water and the possibility that fracking is making Hale kids sick turn one student into an unlikely hero in the fight to stop the controversial drilling practice. Winston Crwth, a Scrabble prodigy whose baffling last name rhymes with "truth," knows what it's like to be "fractured," having grown up with his father in Philadelphia and his mother in California.

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