Awake at the End: A Heights Arts Poet Laureate Anthology, features the work of three Cleveland Heights poets: Meredith Holmes, Loren Weiss, and Mary E. […]
Local Authors
A Body at Rest by Susan Petrone
Each month members of the Matchmakers team create unique book displays for patrons to browse on the 2nd floor of the Lee Road branch. Last month, I made a display […]
Matchmakers Midsummer Book List
On June 21st, the Matchmakers hosted our first-ever Outdoor Book Talk event! Each member of our team prepared to share three books we enjoyed and […]
Top Reads from August
I don’t know about anyone else, but my reading habits have come and gone in fits and bursts since COVID-19 hit. Some months, I’ll only […]
Q&A with Varley O’Connor, author of “The Welsh Fasting Girl”
Local author and professor Varley O’Connor sat down to talk with us in anticipation of her appearance at the Coventry Village branch on Wednesday, May […]
Q&A with Dr. Deborah Fleming, author of “Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape”
Ohio-based writer, editor, poet, and professor Dr. Deborah Fleming spoke to us over the phone in anticipation of her appearance at the Coventry branch on […]
Q&A with Dr. Clara Jean Mosley Hall, author of “Paris in America: A Deaf Nanticoke Shoemaker and His Daughter”
Local author and professor Dr. Hall sat down to talk with us in anticipation of her appearance at the Coventry branch on Monday, March 18, at […]
Q&A with James Robenalt, author of ‘Ballots and Bullets: Black Power Politics and Urban Guerrilla Warfare in 1968 Cleveland’
Local author and historian James Robenalt sat down to talk with us in anticipation of his appearance at the Coventry branch on Wednesday, November 7, […]
Interview with local author Thrity Umrigar
She also told us a bit about her upcoming event at Lee on Sunday, September 23 at 2 p.m., which kicks off our new “Meet […]
