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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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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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Light Enters the Grove – A National Poetry Month Celebration

Light Enters the Grove – A National Poetry Month Celebration

Join us Saturday, April 12, for a celebration of poetry and nature! For National Poetry Month, we are partnering with Kent State University Press and the Cleveland Cinematheque for a celebration of poetry and nature. Beginning at 4 PM at the Main Library of Cleveland Public Library, contributors to Light Enters the Grove (Kent State University Press, …

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Anisfield-Wolf Award Book Discussions Spring 2025

Anisfield-Wolf Award Book Discussions Spring 2025

The Ohio Center for the Book is proud to collaborate with Ursuline College’s Rust Belt Humanities Lab, Case Western Reserve University, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Awards to host a series of book discussions on three Award-winning titles at the Cleveland Public Library’s new Martin Luther King, Jr. Branch at 10601 Euclid Avenue. Wednesday, March 19, 4:00 …

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