“What's better, the movie or the book?" 

How does a novel change when it is adapted for the screen? What are the merits of each medium? Visible Voice Books invites you to the first meeting of our new Movie vs. Book Club, where we’ll discuss these very questions.

During this month’s meeting, we’ll discuss Orlando by Virginia Woolf and its 1992 film adaptation directed by Sally Potter. We encourage you to purchase the novel from us and watch the movie prior to the meeting (available for streaming on various platforms).

Your host for the evening is Isaac, who says he loves movies (and books) "too much," but promises he's not an overbearing bro. He enjoys associative, nonlinear editing but also oners; visually predominant films but also films consisting mainly of conversations; and he hopes that his wide range of interests will welcome many film and book fans who want to bond over art.

Book picks for upcoming meetings:

• 2/4 - Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

• 3/4 - Beloved by Toni Morrison

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Milenko (Miles) Budimir’s newest book of poems is Nowhere to Go but Everywhere: Travel Poems (Roadside Press). He’s also the author of Licorice Heart (Roadside Press), Departures (Burning River) and Rustbelt Romance (deep cleveland). During the daytime, he works as a philosophy lecturer and a technical writer and editor. He is from Cleveland, Ohio.  

Joshua Gage is an ornery curmudgeon from Cleveland. He is a graduate of the Low-Residency MFA Program in Creative Writing at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University. He has a penchant for Pendleton shirts, Ethiopian coffee, and any poem strong enough to yank the breath out of his lungs. 

Mark S. Kuhar is a Medina, Ohio-based writer, poet, editor, publisher, artist and songwriter. His work has appeared in many print and online publications. He has published six chapbooks: “acrobats in catapult twist” (2003); “laughing in the ruins of chippewa lake park” (2004); “e40th & pain: poems from deep cleveland” (2006); "Universe Gone Dancing" (2013); “mercury in retrograde” (2016) and “seymour’s poems.” (2017). Sacramento, Calif.-based 24th St. Irregular Press has also published his work as part of its “poems-for-all” series of mini books. He holds a BA in English, with a specialization in Creative Writing (1980) from Ohio University, Athens, Ohio. 

dan smith is the author of Crooked River and The Liquid of Her Skin, the Suns of Her Eyes. Widely published, dan has had poems published in or at the Rhysling Anthology, Dwarf Stars, Scifaikuest, Sein und Werden, Deep Cleveland Junkmail Oracle, Renegade Flowers: d. a. levy and the Digital Revolution, Gas Station Famous, Jerry Jazz Musician, Kaleidotrope, microcosms, RTA Bus Art, Star*Line, Red Fez, New Verse News and Failed Haiku to name a few. Nominated for the Red Moon Anthology this year as well as the Touchstone Award and the Pushcart Prize, dan has also been awarded both a first and third prize in the Hessler Street Fair Poetry Contests. His most recent poems have been at Five Fleas Itchy Poetry, dadakuku, smols, The Roads at Night Looked Like Our Futures: A 40 Over 40 Anthology, Fevers of the Mind, Under the Basho, Sonic Boom, Oddball Magazine, Sense and Sensibility and Lothlorien Poetry Journal. 

J.E. Stanley is a Rhysling Award-nominated science fiction and mainstream poet.