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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York;VALUE=DATE:20260121
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SUMMARY:Book Store Reading Features Three NE Ohio Writers Sharing Their Wor
 k
DESCRIPTION:\nWed 1/21 @ 7-8:30PM\nOne of the many programs offered by Clev
 eland writers nonprofit Literary Cleveland is its Plum City Readings\, whi
 ch take place across the street from its office on Larchmere Boulevard —
  at Loganberry Books\, appropriately\, so you can buy the readers’ books
  and probably many more if you’re like most of us.\n This month’s rea
 ders are all from northeast Ohio. Cherise Benton\, Tara Pringle Jefferson 
 and Mary Weems will read from and discuss their work.\nBenton\, who is fro
 m Youngstown\, is a writer of poems and short stories\, inspired by everyt
 hing from nature to Greek mythology. Her work has been published in a vari
 ety of small literary magazines.\nWellness coach Jefferson\, a Cleveland n
 ative\, will share from Bloom How You Must: A Black Woman's Guide to Self-
 Care and Generational Healing\, whose title is self-explanatory. It featur
 es interviews with wellness experts and Black women who share their own ex
 periences and offer practical guidelines for others.\nMary E. Weems is a n
 oted Cleveland poet/playwright/educator and former Cleveland Heights Poet 
 Laureate. Her new book of poems Fall and Response explores Black life\, in
 cluding love\, marriage\, motherhood\, suicide\, poverty\, police violence
  and more: “the daily effect of being Black\, a woman and a descendant o
 f slaves in a continually racist America which falsely promotes the idea o
 f diversity and inclusion publicly\, when what it wants is to conserve a s
 tatus quo where the majority of Blacks remain on the bottom of the bottom 
 one hundred and fifty-nine years after the official end of slavery.”\nFo
 llowing the reading\, attendees are invited to an afterpart at Lit Clevela
 nd’s headquarters across the street. Go here to register for the event.\
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 a Pantsios,Preview,Free,RSS,Literary,Healthy
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