By OCB Staff on 5/21/2013 9:31 AM

The Ohio Center for the Book at Cleveland Public Library is pleased to welcome Dave Lucas as our featured poet at Cleveland Public Poetry on Saturday, June 15, 2013.  The reading will begin at noon in the beautiful Eastman Reading Garden at the Main Library, 325 Superior Ave.  After Mr. Lucas reads, there will be an open mic. 

Dave Lucas is the author of Weather (Georgia,2011), which received the 2012 Ohioana Book Award for Poetry, and is a co-founder and cocurator of the Brews + Prose literary series at Market Garden Brewery. Recently Rita Dove selected him to be featured on BillMoyers.com as a “young poet to watch.” A PhD candidate in English at the University of Michigan, he lives in Cleveland, where he was born and raised.

 

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By OCB Staff on 5/17/2013 12:29 PM

Thursday, May 23, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. Tracy Chevalier, bestselling author of The Last Runaway and Girl with a Pearl Earring returns to Hudson for an intimate engagement at Case-Barlow Farm (1931 Barlow Road Hudson, OH).  This event is open to the public; tickets are $20 and can be purchased at the Learned Owl Book Shop (204 N. Main Street, Hudson).  All proceeds from the ticket sales will go directly to Case Barlow Farm in an effort to rebuild the barn.  Included in the cost of the ticket is an in depth discussion with Chevalier about her research methods, light refreshments, and tours of the farm house. 

For more information, please contact the Learned Owl Book Shop at 330-653-2252.

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By OCB Staff on 5/9/2013 2:35 PM

Saturday, June 1, 2013, 9 a.m. until 5 p.m.

Conference events will take place in Clark Hall (11130 Bellflower Road) and Guilford House (11112 Bellflower Road) on the Case Western Reserve University campus.

In her keynote address: Closer Than You Think: Thoughts on Genre Bending, Blending and Plain-Old Jumping Ship, Ohio author Paula McLain will discuss her experience writing and publishing across genres, the unique challenges and pleasures of working within and without boundaries, and the remarkable things that can happen when you stop thinking you're a poet, memoirist, or novelist, and start acting like a writer.

Other workshop presenters at this all-day event are: Joyce Dyer, Sarah Gridley, Charles Oberndof, Lynn Powell, Brad Ricca, Jim Sheeler, Sarah Willis and David Young.  To learn more about Breaking Genre: A Writer's Conference, click here or call 216-368-1508.  Click "Read More" to see the scheduled workshops.

 

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