

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Poems of a Gold Carp/Maj Ragain
- **Event Start and End Date**: Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm – Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Maj Ragain taught at Kent State and influenced a generation of students. He died in 2018 but his heartful poetry and buddha nature continues to inspire legions of poets and readers.

One of those former students is Joel Lesses, who has compiled Poems of a Gold Carp: The Collected Works of Major Ragain. It includes all of the poems from these collections: Fresh Oil, Loose Gravel: Collected Poems, Burley One Dark Sucker Fired: Collected Poems, Twist the Axe: A Horseplayer's Story, A Hungry Ghost Surrenders His Tacklebox, and Clouds Pile Up In The North: New &amp; Selected Poems. Joel is the founder of Education Training Center in Buffalo, a podcaster and publisher of Manjushri Press.

Mac's will host a reading from the new book on February 28th at 7 pm. Attendees will choose a few poems to read from the collection in an open mic format.

Praise for Maj for Clouds Pile Up in the North

These poems hold so lightly what can’t be held—old queen asleep in her milkweed chamber, the full Hunter’s moon, Secondhand Rose and February dusk, the dragon’s egg nestled against the breastbone, the lost silver earring among the flowers. You will find in this book thirst and burning air, songs in the key of High Lonesome, truths maybe we were afraid to want, and a top-down fast-ride in the convertible of Delight. Friend, Fellow Traveler, if you wished to know whether there was a place set for you at the banquet, let me point you toward Maj Ragain’s poems. They are sustenance. They are sweet mortal joy. —Lisa Coffman, author of Less Obvious Gods
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/cleveland-heights/poems-of-a-gold-carp-maj-ragain/200029642034200
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, workshops, open-mic
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 9

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Cleveland Heights
- **state**: OH
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118
- **lat**: 41.50997
- **long**: -81.58012
- **full address**: 1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118

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- **organizer**: Mac's Backs-Books On Coventry (https://allevents.in/org/macs-backs-books-on-coventry/7179027)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Sat, 28 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** 1820 Coventry Rd, Cleveland Heights, OH, United States, Ohio 44118
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Mac's Backs-Books On Coventry
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** art, literary-art, workshops, open-mic
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about Poems of a Gold Carp/Maj Ragain ?
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