http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCMQkI2YD2w
Sammy Greenspan reads “Driving to Columbus” on 3 April 2009 during
her featured reading at Pumpkin Hollow Antiques and Cafe
located at 24 Bell Street in Bellville, Ohio — (419) 886-6093
(photography & editing by John Burroughs, a.k.a. Jesus Crisis)
“Driving to Columbus” by Sammy Greenspan first appeared in
Heartlands: A Magazine of Midwestern Life and Art, Volume 5 (2007) and is
included in the chapbook, Step Back from the Closing Doors (Pudding House, 2009)
as well as the 2009 anthology The Pudding House Gang (also by Pudding House).
Sammy Greenspan is a onetime waitress, lab tech, painter, pediatrician and homeschool teacher. Her 2009 chapbook Step Back from the Closing Doors (Pudding House) was a Pushcart nominee. Her poems and stories appear and are forthcoming in Heartlands, Del Sol Review, In Posse Review, Fuck Poetry, the 2010 Heights Arts Poetography, and various anthologies. Sammy runs the Pudding House Salon Cleveland poetry workshop. You can find her at readings around the rust belt and beyond, and online at northcoastpoet.com.
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Had trouble leaving a comment earlier… lost it when my web browser suddenly went offline then had trouble posting another.Now after resting I feel up to trying again… I believe I’ve heard her read this at either her Mac’s reading or Lix but not sure which… but some of it is familiar… I can see why she is in charge of the Pudding House Salon you go to.. Wish you’d answer my question I left you about it sometime.The thought that went thru my mind was I wonder how different the poem would be if she’d seen a vulture at Dead Man’s curve as opposed to an eagle.. LOL.. (just kidding) Ohioan’s seem to have a definite love-hate relationship with Ohio and Cleveland. Michiganders don’t seem as passionate. So maybe because of that there’s more hope for Ohio…