A well-known arts advocate, author and teacher, Nina Freedlander Gibans has written poetry since college, read in San Francisco during the Beat era (once on the same stage as Allen Ginsberg) and no...показать большеA well-known arts advocate, author and teacher, Nina Freedlander Gibans has written poetry since college, read in San Francisco during the Beat era (once on the same stage as Allen Ginsberg) and now in the Cleveland area where she lives. She has participated in readings at the Akron and Cleveland Museums of Art, the Cleveland Botanical Gardens, area bookstores and the Shaker Heights Public Library. She was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Artists Project grant for poetry in 1999 to develop 18 Gardens and their Gardeners with photographer Michael Loderstedt. “Silver Apples of the Moon”, a program she directed whereby the public was invited to match art and poetry involved libraries and museums resulted in a publication produced by the Shaker Heights Public Library and Cleveland State University (2006). She has authored four other books on cultural subjects. ). She has authored four other books on cultural subjects and co-edited Cleveland Poetry Scenes: Panorama and Anthology, (Bottom Dog Press 2008). She developed a website for regional poetry www.clevelandpoetryarchive.com. Through her advocacy efforts, West 2nd Street was renamed Daniel’s Way, for Daniel Thompson, Poet Laureate, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, who died in May 2004.[For more see www.ninagibans.com]показать меньше