Name: Eternal Flame by Mark Flanigan
Duration: 14 min
Description: Mark Flanigan performing his original piece, "Eternal Flame," at the Aurore Press book release, 1st Hand Stories from 2nd Hand Stores. Recorded live at the Comet on 9/4/10

Mark Flanigan performing his original piece, "Eternal Flame," at the Aurore Press book release, 1st Hand Stories from 2nd Hand Stores. Recorded live at the Comet on 9/4/10

Eternal Flame

Mark Flanigan (Cincinnati, OH) is a poet, performer, columnist, fiction writer and a screenwriter. After an 11 year run, his “Exiled” column is now archived at semantikon.com and citybeat.com, while a compilation, Exiled on Main Street: Dispatches, Diatribes, Stories and More from the Urban Core is forthcoming in 2016.

Previously, his volume of poetry, Journeyman’s Lament, appeared in the Aurore Press publication, Versus, and his free e-book, Minute Poems, is available online from Three Fools Press. 

In January 2014, Flanigan co-founded a monthly open/feature reading, Word of Mouth Cincinnati, and in November 2015 his poem “The Bell Ringer’s Song” won the grand prize in the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra’s One City, One Symphony Poetry Contest.

In April 2016 Mark Flanigan was named one of three finalists for Cincinnati Poet Laureate.
