Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library

In honor of #NationalPoetryMonth and to provide a sense of community in these times, the Ohio Center for the Book is launching a collaborative online poetry project via Twitter for the month of April: #OHrenga2020. We’ve also expanded #OHrenga2020 to our Facebook page @OhioCenterForTheBook as well for those on that platform. Check it out there …

Wikipedia is consistently among the Top 10 most-visited sites on the Internet as well as being at or near the top of every Google search. For better or worse, this is where people are getting a lot of their information. In light of this, the Ohio Center for the Book is encouraging librarians and others …

We are very pleased to announce that Adopt A Book, Inc., having been nominated by the Ohio Center for the Book, has been selected as a winner of the 2020 Library of Congress State Literacy Awards Program! Adopt A Book, Inc., headquartered in Loveland near Cincinnati, will receive $2,225 in recognition of their outstanding contribution …

The Ohio Center for the Book is very pleased to announce that Valentino Zullo (@ValentinoLucaZ) will be the 2020-2021 Ohio Center for the Book Scholar-in-Residence. The Ohio Center for the Book, including its associated circulating book collection of Ohio authors, is located at Cleveland Public Library’s Main Library in downtown Cleveland. Valentino L. Zullo is …

Born today, February 1, 1902, Hughes moved to Cleveland in 1916 and attended Central High School where his writing was encouraged by his teachers and others and where his first works appeared. One of Hughes’ signature poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers“, was first published in 1921 and appeared in the NAACP’s official journal, The …

Applications have closed for 2020. After multiple nomination applications and feedback from members of the statewide library and education communities, we have chosen Ohio’s nominee to be considered by the Library of Congress for their State Literacy Awards. In deference to the organization chosen as our state’s nominee, we will be releasing the name of …

In 1585, Shakespeare’s family—consisting of his wife, Anne, and their two-year-old daughter, Susanna—grew to include newborn twins Hamnet and Judith. Speculatively, finances were very much on Shakespeare’s mind, and Stratford-upon-Avon held only finite opportunities for an enterprising young dramatist. Compounding his dilemma was that soothing, feeding, changing, and washing crying babies left precious little time …

With National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) officially starting Nov. 1, we thought it would be helpful to place all of Ohio’s NaNoWriMo Write-In locations and other activities in one handy spot. The following are from the official NaNoWriMo site and other sources. We’ve included links where we could verify an event announcement so you can …

With this being the Ides of October, National Novel Writing Month is just around the corner. The Ohio Center for the Book has a full slate of programs lined up to help you achieve your writing goals. Download our flyer with all the NaNoWriMo program dates and times here! To get you off on the …

The September 2019 Literary Frolic Friday discussion centered around Run Silent, Run Deep. The book Run Silent, Run Deep (1955) was written by Captain Edward “Ned” Latimer Beach, Jr., and the 1958 film of the same name starred Burt Lancaster and the Ohio-born Clark Gable. Beach also had Ohio roots with his father being born …