With April, comes the promise of the end of winter, true
rebirth with muddy puddles and baseball's opening day. It is also tends to mean just one more snow
fall in the Cleveberg land of eternal grey.
Such is ambitious expectation, so many times based on overwhelming
desire for something just a little better...or warmer. Foolishness in chance. However, a sure thing is that April IS
national poetry month and The Lit Cafe has evolved to a point that it NEVER
disappoints. This month is no
exception.

To meet the high expectation of our discerning audience for
such an auspicious time, The Lit Cafe
is importing a special poet from Worcester Massachusetts and having a rare
REPEAT performance from one of our favorites.

From the scant bio sent by Dan Provost and look at pics the
web , you never really believe that he
is a careful and serious poet. In fact
you may fall into the misconception that Dan only thinks about football and
beer. I quote the bio, "He is also the Head Football Coach of Keefe Tech
High School in Framingham, Massachusetts." But to read his poetry, you
would find that he not only thinks of other deep life thoughts of existence,
but he is quite capable of expressing them beautifully. Dan has been published in numerous poetry
magazines and on-line publications. He won the 2002 RC Edrington's chap contest
with "The Fat Girl on Belmont Street" and his fourth
chapbook,"The 21'st Century Wretch" was published in April, 2007 by
Scintillating Press. He feeds his large and diverse appetites by being the
Assistant Director of Graduate Services at Assumption College.

Our second poet has read at the Lit Cafe before. John Dorsey is
well known in the underground and outsider poetry circles of country. He graced
us with selections from the cooperative title "Harvey Keitel,Harvey
Keitel, Harvey Keitel" done with left coasters S.A. Griffin and Scott
Wannberg. He has edited Griffin's life
opus, "The Numbskull Sutra" and has a new book out with Amanda Oaks
called "Dreams That Would Drown Most Men." In case your wondering,
Griffin designed and edited this with Dave Smith (coming to the Lit in
July). John is an accomplished reader
and has toured the US many times, yet, is an Artist In Residence at the
Collingwood Arts Center just next door in Toledo.

Forget about that inevitable last snow blast. Forget that
taxes are due in five days. Loose
yourself in this outstanding slate, worthy of National Poetry Month, so come
out this, the second Thursday of the month (like every month), April 10 at
9:30pm at the Literary Cafe. Location is 1031 Literary Road in the poetic heart
neighborhood of Tremont in Cleveland.