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@ Shaker Library Poetry in the Woods April and May Poets Poetry in the Woods features regional poets who perform their works in the Dietz Community Room at Woods Branch from 7-8:30 pm on Mondays, April 18 and May 16. The April 18 poetry program features poets Max and Nehemiah Stark and Terry Provost. Max Stark was born in Italy and raised in Cleveland. He holds a master’s in English from Cleveland State University with a concentration in poetry. He makes his living as an organizational consultant with his own firm. He has been writing poetry for more than 30 years. Max’s son Nehemiah is a Cleveland documentarian, photographer, and poet. He is the director of a new audio documentary project for Neighborhood Connections, the community arm of The Cleveland Foundation, where community members are given recorders to document their lives in the context of major national issues. His work has been published in Time Magazine and The Guardian. Terry Provost graduated with a bachelor’s degree in physics from St. Bonaventure University, a master’s degree in medical physics from the University of Colorado, and a master’s degree in mathematics from Cleveland State. He has been writing poetry for more than 15 years, and has performed his poetry across the country. The May 16 event will feature poets Barbara Ann Tan, Nin Andrews, and Christine Howey. Barbara Tan was the co-coordinator of the Mercyhurst Poetry/ Prose Workshop at Mercyhurst University. Her poetry and prose have appeared in publications such as Dwelling in Possibility and The Middle Distance. She completed a book about her mother, My Chinese Procession, in 2013. Nin Andrews is the author of 12 collections of poetry and the book, Why God Is a Woman. She is a recipient of two Ohio Arts Council grants, and her poems have appeared in many literary reviews and anthologies. 28 SHAKERONLINE.COM | SPRING 2016 Christine Howey is a performance poet. Her one-person show, Exact Change, about her transgender journey, had its world premiere at Cleveland Public Theatre in 2014. Howey is a former stage actor and director at Dobama Theatre. The Press Club of Cleveland and the Society of Professional Journalists have named her Best Critic in Ohio. Spring Book Group Opportunities SPRING BOOK GROUP OPPORTUNITIES Good weather and longer days means there’s more time for reading. The Library offers many opportunities to join with neighbors for interesting book discussions. Whether you fancy fiction, prefer unraveling whodunit in a mystery, or enjoy an adult beverage with your book, the Library has a group for you. PubReads at Academy Tavern: The Library and the Academy Tavern cosponsor book discussions at the pub on Larchmere Boulevard. Enjoy a burger and a beer with your book. From 7-8:30 pm on April 11, join the discussion of Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness by Susannah Cahalan. This award-winning memoir chronicles the swift path of the author’s illness and the last-minute intervention by one of the few doctors capable of saving her life, with a diagnosis that almost did not happen. Spring Book Buzz Discussions at Main Library: 10 to 11:30 am Tuesday, April 12, Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff. The Pulitzer Prize-winning author separates the myth from the fascinating history of Cleopatra, who ruled ancient Egypt and had affairs with both Julius Caesar and Marc Antony. 10 to 11:30 am Tuesday, May 10, Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng. A mixed-race family in suburban 1970s Ohio is thrown into chaos when the middle child is found drowned. The author is a graduate of Shaker Heights High School. 10-11:30 am Tuesday, June 14, Shakespeare: The World as Stage by Bill Bryson. As there is little factual information about Shakespeare’s life, this is not a formal biography, but rather an accessible and lively collection of anecdotes about the Bard and his plays designed to educate and entertain. Mystery Book Discussions at Main Library: 7:30 to 8:30 pm Tuesday, April 12, The Black-Eyed Blonde by Benjamin Black. Private investigator Philip Marlowe has a new client, a seductive woman who wants him to find her former lover. The investigation takes him through the streets of Bay City, California, from seedy bars to gorgeous mansions, and shows him just how far people will go to protect their fortunes. 7:30 to 8:30 pm Tuesday, May 10, Dry Bones in the Valley by Tom Bouman. When Officer Henry Farrell takes a job in Thyme Township in northeastern Pennsylvania he expects to enjoy hunting and fishing. However, when a stranger is found dead he discovers the less-thanbucolic goings-on in the area – outlaws cooking meth, gas drilling, and the erosion of neighborly trust. 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, June 14, Dead Water by Ann Cleeves. When Jerry Markham turns up dead in a Shetland boat, Inspector Willow Reeves needs all the help she can get from Inspector Jimmy Perez, who knows the area, and the scandal Jerry left behind when he moved to London to further his journalistic career. Fourth Tuesday Afternoon Book Discussions: 2 to 3 pm Tuesday, April 26, The Husband’s Secret by Liane Moriarty. Imagine that your husband wrote you a letter to be opened after his death. Then imagine that the letter contains his deepest, darkest secret: something with the potential to destroy not only the life you have built together, but the lives of others as well. And then imagine that you read that letter while your husband is still very much alive. 2 to 3 pm Tuesday, May 24, The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman. A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home for a funeral. When he returns to the street where he grew up, an unremembered past comes flooding back – a past too strange, frightening, and dangerous to have happened to anyone, let alone a seven-year-old boy.


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