2022
Covid
NOTE:
I'm back, open, performing, and teaching in person, safely. Still on
Zoom.
Ray 440-918-0878,
mcnieceray@gmail.com


Poet
and director of Twelve Literary Daniel Gray-Kontar, in
presenting the Lifetime Achievement Award to
poet Ray McNiece recalled their time together in 1994, when they both were on a team
representing Cleveland at the National Poetry Slam
Championship, and won—as Gray-Kontar noted—the first national
championship for Cleveland since the Cleveland Browns, 30
years earlier. He recalled the so-very-Cleveland opening
line from McNiece’s poem Grandfather’s Breath: “You work.
You work, Buddy. You work.” McNiece could be heard performing that poem in coffee shops and much
larger stages all those years ago.
All the people receiving recognition in the evening’s ceremony would
know the truth of that line.
http://canjournal.org/2021/10/you-work-cleveland-arts-prize-celebrates-accomplishments/
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HEIGHTS ARTS NAMES
RAY MCNIECE
AS 10TH CLEVELAND HEIGHTS POET LAUREATE

In his announcement of his new
role, McNiece said, “Yesterday I posted a tribute to my mother and
it really was
her encouragement to follow my dreams to be a poet (my immigrant
Grandparents were drilling “Doctor, Lawyer, Engineer”
in my head all through my childhood) that has brought me here. That, and
the love of poetry instilled by my father’s mother
Zelma McNiece Cline, who always told me if you learn a poem by heart it
lives with you your whole life!”
McNiece is known for his collaborations with other poets, spoken word
artists and musicians, so he’s ideally suited to expand the poet laureate role in multiple ways and he is bursting with ideas.
https://www.heightsarts.org/portfolio-item/heights-arts-names-ray-mcniece-as-10th-cleveland-heights-poet-laureate/

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Ray McNiece for Ekphrastacy reading at Heights Arts
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New Books
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Haiku Hikes
https://coolcleveland.com/2022/01/poet-ray-mcniece-leads-a-haiku-hike/
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WTAMU: SLAM POET
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RAY'S BAND TONGUE
IN GROOVE
Third Sunday of the month at 6 (on hiatus for January and February due to Covid)
The Millard
Fillmore Presidential Library
bar & grill
15617 Waterloo
Rd, Cleveland, OH 44110
(216) 481-9444
https://www.facebook.com/people/The-Millard-Fillmore-Presidential-Library/100063674558022/

Sample Fillmore
performance
https://www.facebook.com/angel.marino.7106/videos/585281039193694/
March 20th, featuring Irish
American Seanachie, Sean Thomas Daughtery,
April 17, internationally touring Nepalese Poet Yuyutsu Sharma
May 15, Ray McNiece’s belated 60th Birthday Bash, featuring Zoom
Workshop Poets
June 19, Daniel Gray-Kontar,
July 17, Raja Belle Freeman
See more performances, links, and YOUTUBE CLIPS at MUSIC - SINGER
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