Expanding Horizons: Get Graphic! Comics Discussions 2025

Expanding Horizons: Get Graphic! Comics Discussions 2025

This year, we’re expanding our horizons beyond our shores and taking an international look at the comics medium. From journalism to imaginary worlds, our featured creators provide gripping stories told through comics. Join us for lively conversations on our literary trip around the world! We’ll be meeting, as always, at Bookhouse Brewing in Cleveland at …

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Novels In Translation Book Discussions 2025

Novels In Translation Book Discussions 2025

Join the Ohio Center for the Book and Clevo Books (1026 Euclid Ave in downtown Cleveland) a bookstore that specializes in translated literature, for engaging discussions of recent works of international literature. All discussions take place from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm. Thursday, January 16 Kairos by Jenny Erpeneck (2023, translated from German by Michael …

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Virginia Hamilton: Additional Resources

Virginia Hamilton: Additional Resources

While we, of course, encourage everyone to read Rubini’s engaging biography of Virginia Hamilton chosen as this year’s Great Reads youth selection, we felt it would be helpful to post some readily available links to additional information on Virginia Hamilton’s life and works here online. Article The pathbreaking Virginia Hamilton and her “liberation literature” – …

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Exploring the Diversity of Ohio’s Literal & Poetic Landscape

Exploring the Diversity of Ohio’s Literal & Poetic Landscape

Using our 2025 adult Great Reads from Great Places selection as a jumping off point, this article provides a brief introduction to exploring Ohio’s National Park and our state’s rich and varied poetic landscape. Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park: The Literal Landscape Cuyahoga Valley National Park encompasses over 32,000 acres of fields, forest, lakes, rivers, …

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Celebrating Linda Anne Eastman’s Legacy and Main Library’s 100th Anniversary

Page Count, a podcast presented by the Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library, celebrates the 100th anniversary of the Main Library building by taking a closer look at the life and work of Linda Anne Eastman, who served as Chief Librarian from 1918 to 1938. As the first woman to lead a …

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Celebrate National Poetry Month with Ohio Poets

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Ohio Poets

April is National Poetry Month, inaugurated by the Academy of American Poets in 1996. Ohio’s poetic lineage stretches back nearly to the founding of the state. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper – poet, author, lecturer, and abolitionist – was the first female teacher at Union Seminary (a school for free African Americans) in Wilberforce, Ohio. Her …

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Nosferatu LIVE! The Cinematic Legacy of the First VAMPYRE!

Nosferatu LIVE! The Cinematic Legacy of the First VAMPYRE!

Saturday, April 19, at 1:30 pm – Cleveland Public Library’s Main Library Ohio has a number of connections* to the horror genre, so on Saturday, April 19, at 1:30 pm, join us for a screening of the groundbreaking 1922 cinema masterpiece Nosferatu, Eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror). We’re celebrating the film …

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