The Global Lovers: A Third Sunday Poetry Series Event

A woman in Kentucky reads newspaper advertisements and considers the objects she might purchase. Meanwhile, in another part of the world, a young girl is forced into sex slavery. What must they learn about themselves -- and each other? The Global Lovers offers an energetic, timely, and localized focus on this challenging subject. The performance is followed by a conversation with the playwright and with the director, e.E. Charlton-Trujillo.

The Global Lovers, a poetic drama in five scenes, was presented to a sold-out audience at the Cincinnati Playwrights’ Initiative in February 2009. Author Rhonda Pettit, Ph.D., is an associate professor of English and Women's Studies at the University of Cincinnati in Blue Ash. A recipient of fellowships from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and Hedgebrook, her poems have appeared in many journals and in the anthology I Go to the Ruined Place: Contemporary Poems in Defense of Global Human Rights. Director e.E. Charlton-Trujillo has worked on over thirty short films and, most recently, edited the feature film Night Fliers. In 2004, Charlton-Trujillo won the prestigious Delacorte Dell Yearling Award for her first novel Prizefighter En Mi Casa . Charlton-Trujillo's latest endeavor Fallen (The Revolution) , a webseries designed for television, will be pitched in February 2010 in LA.

For a Streetvibes review of the 2009 staged reading of this play, please click here and scroll to page four. The Global Lovers was written with funding from the Kentucky Foundation for Women at their Hopscotch House retreat.

To read the playwright’s comments about this work please click here.

Grailville’s Third Sunday Poetry Series offers monthly opportunities for poets and poetry lovers to gather for readings, performances and discussions, followed by an optional poetry craft workshop, led by poet and Grailville co-director Pauletta Hansel in which participants will give and receive feedback on poems they have brought with them.

Spend Sunday afternoon with learning from and with accomplished poets from the Cincinnati area and beyond! Grailville’s Third Sunday Poetry Series is co-sponsored by Cincinnati Writers Project, Dos Madres Press, Greater Cincinnati Writers League, and InkTank, and supported in part by the Tomcinoh Fund of the Greater Cincinnati Foundation.

To learn more about Grailville’s 2010 Third Sunday Poetry Series click here. To learn more about Grailville’s other 2010 Practice of Poetry offerings click here.

The Global Lovers is held Sunday, March 21, 2010 at 2:00 pm at Grailville, 932 O’Bannonville Road, Loveland, OH. The fee for the program is $15. Tuition for the optional poetry craft workshop is by donation. Workshop participants should bring five copies on up to three poems. 5% discount for single registration received by February 21, 2010. Additional 5% discount for multiple pre-paid registrations for this workshop or this workshop in combination with other Grailville programs.

For information or to register contact 513-683-2340 until 5 pm on Saturday. Walk-ins accepted.