Clean Water Works
Clean Water Works
Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District
Underground Poetry with Literary Cleveland
52 minutes Posted Sep 30, 2025 at 9:00 am.
Podcast Introduction
Literary Cleveland Collaboration
Christine Explains the Treatment Plant
Introduction to the Zine Project
Poetry Reading: The Soul of Water
Toilet Rat's Epic Adventure
Poems About Infrastructure History
Closing Remarks and Gratitude
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Send us Fan Mail Art meets infrastructure! The Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District partnered with the nonprofit creative-writing center Literary Cleveland to host a reading of "Odes to Infrastructure," a newly-published zine, right in the heart of our Southerly Wastewater Treatment Plant. It was a celebration of our essential-yet-often-unseen water systems and, of course, Lake Erie. Standing in the concrete tunnels where our treatment-plant workers normally move about, the Literary Clevel...