UPCOMING

Poetry In Season

A One Hour Poetry Workshop

Celebrating the Season of Summer 2026

Sunday, August 16, at 11:00 AM

At Zion United Church of Christ

139 North 5th St.

Steubenville, Ohio, 43952

church.zionucc@gmail.com  740-282-1793

 

Featuring Ohio Poet

Dr. Debra Fleming

 

Born in Steubenville and raised in Bloomingdale, award winning nonfiction writer Dr. Deborah Fleming is also the author of three collections of poems, Morning, Winter Solstice (Vineyard, 2012), Into a New Country (Cherry Grove, 2016), and Earthrise (White Violet Press, 2021); two chapbooks by Finishing Line Press, Migrations (2005) and Source of the River (2018); and one novel, Without Leave (Black Mountain Press, 2014), winner of the Asheville Award. Winner of a Vandewater Poetry Award and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and National Council of Learned Societies, she has had three poems nominated for the Pushcart Prize. She served for many years as director and editor of the Ashland Poetry Press. An equestrian and mountain climber, she now lives on a farm in northeast Ohio with her husband Clarke W. Owens, also a writer.

 

The workshop begins at 11:00 AM, reservations requested

by calling 740-282-1793, cost $10.

Debra will also be reading the day’s Psalm in worship,

which begins at 10:00 AM.

Anyone attending the full worship service

may attend the 11:00 workshop at no cost.