Bringing the Fire: Neighborhood Voices Anthology Launches

On Saturday, November 14, nearly 100 attendees joined the virtual launch party for Neighborhood Voices, a city-wide writing program and joint project of Cleveland Public Library and Literary Cleveland. The event celebrated the publication of the program’s digital anthology, which features poetry, essays, and memoir pieces penned by 65 writers across the city of Cleveland to honor community, storytelling, neighborhood…

Bryan Stevenson

Bryan Stevenson, the founding director of the Equal Justice Institute in Montgomery, Alabama shares his insights and lessons learned in 30 years on the front lines fighting injustice and inequality in the criminal justice system of the United States directly reflect on the current social movements protesting oppression, discrimination, and even death of far too many people of color at…

Embrace Your Entrepreneurial Spirit in CPL’s MakerSpace

When local entrepreneur Jeff Bargiel was ready to make a prototype of his latest invention, a heated mousepad, things were going smoothly—until he discovered a component that was anything but smooth. The product’s heating elements created a wavy, distorted surface that just wouldn’t work for a mousepad. Enter Cleveland Public Library’s MakerSpace, which helped Bargiel iron out the wrinkles in…