Tercet at the Merc

Join us for an evening of poetry from Don Bogen, Susana Case, and Margo Taft Stever.

Each poet will read and discuss selections of their work in an evening that is a sort of homecoming for Bogen and Taft Stever.

Free & open to the public. Registration required for the in-person program via ticketing. To attend online, register directly via Crowdcast HERE.

Copies of their books will be available for sale & signing.

6 pm reception/6:30 pm program

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About the poets

Don Bogen is the author of five books of poetry, most recently Immediate Song (Milkweed Editions, 2019) and the translator of Euoropa: Selected Poems of Julio Martínez Mesanza (Diálogos, 2016). He has collaborated with a number of composers. Prizes for his work include a Discovery Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Camargo Foundation. He has held Fulbright positions at the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in Belfast and at the Universities of Santiago de Compostela and Vigo in Spain. An emeritus professor at the University of Cincinnati, he serves as editor-at-large of the Cincinnati Review.

Susana H. Case is the author of eight books of poetry, most recently The Damage Done (Broadstone Books, 2022). Dead Shark on the N Train (Broadstone Books, 2020) won a Pinnacle Book Award for Best Poetry Book and a NYC Big Book Award Distinguished Favorite and was a Finalist for the Eric Hoffer Book Award. She is also the author of five chapbooks. Her first collection, The Scottish Café (Slapering Hol Press) was re-released in a dual-language English-Polish version, Kawiarnia Szkocka (Opole University Press). Her poetry is translated into Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese. Poems by Case have appeared in literary journals including CALYX, Catamaran, The Cortland Review, Portland Review, Rattle, RHINO, and upstreet. Case recently retired as Professor from the New York Institute of Technology in New York City, where she taught for thirty-eight years. She is a co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.

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Margo Taft Stever‘s three full-length poetry collections are Cracked Piano (CavanKerry Press, 2019), shortlisted and honorable mention for the 2021 Eric Hoffer Award Grand Prize; The End of Horses, Broadstone Books, 2022; and Frozen Spring, 2002 Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry. Her latest of four chapbooks is Ghost Moose (Kattywompus Press, 2019).

Her poems have appeared in literary magazines including Verse Daily, Plant-Human Quarterly, Cincinnati Review, Rattapallax, upstreet, Salamander, West Branch, Poet Lore, Blackbird, Poem-A-Day, poets.org, Academy of American Poets, and Prairie Schooner. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor in the Bioethics Department of the School of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University.

Stever also teaches a poetry workshop at Children’s Village, a residential school for at-risk children and adolescents. She is founder of the Hudson Valley Writers Center and founding and current co-editor of Slapering Hol Press.

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