Lakewood Public Library
Lakewood, Ohio
Jen Jones Donatelli has worked in various forms of media and entertainment for nearly 20 years. Her resume spans feature films, award shows, talk shows, sitcoms, red carpet reporting, and print/online journalism for outlets including Glamour, REDBOOK, Business Insider, Playboy, Los Angeles Confidential and many more. Jen's work has taken her into the kitchens of Wolfgang Puck and Thomas […]
Truman Capote’s novella comes to life in this stylish romantic drama starring Audrey Hepburn as the unforgettable Holly Golightly. While the film softens some of the darker edges of the original story, it captures its themes of loneliness, identity, and the search for belonging. Iconic fashion, memorable music, and a bittersweet tone have helped make […]
In her dreams, Sybil receives visions from six unearthly figures known as Omens. From them, she can predict terrible things before they occur, and people travel across the kingdom to learn their futures. But when Sybil's fellow Diviners begin to vanish one by one, she has no choice but to seek help from the one knight whose future is […]
Wayne Stewart tests and expands your knowledge of professional baseball- covering players' careers from draft day, rookie season, the All-Star Games and beyond- with a special focus on important men and moments from Cleveland Guardians history. Stewart has appeared as a guest historian on ESPN, numerous radio shows, television programs and podcasts. Books will be available for sale and signing at the event.
Jenna Martínez is a finalist for the 2025 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, a 2023–2024 Literary Cleveland Breakthrough Writing Resident, and a recipient of the 2023 Unidos Por El Arte Grant. Her work has been supported by the Macondo Writers Workshop and Community of Writers Workshop. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, HAD, […]
Nardine Taleb is a speech-language pathologist and a writer. She worked as a prose editor at Gordon Square Review for several issues. She is the author of warda, published in 2023 by Passengers Press. Her poetry and fiction stories have been published in award-winning online journals including Electric Literature, The Offing, The Rumpus, Rattle, Frontier Poetry, Tinderbox Poetry Journal, […]
Join us on the Main Library front porch during the Lakewood Arts Festival and enjoy poetry readings featuring experienced poets, participants from the writing groups and even inspired festival goers. We encourage everyone interested in sharing their own poetry to sign up at our table during the festival.
Jen Jones Donatelli has worked in various forms of media and entertainment for nearly 20 years. Her resume spans feature films, award shows, talk shows, sitcoms, red carpet reporting, and print/online journalism for outlets including Glamour, REDBOOK, Business Insider, Playboy, Los Angeles Confidential and many more. Jen's work has taken her into the kitchens of Wolfgang Puck and Thomas […]
This stunning slow-burn romantasy follows Nina Harrow and Patrick Colson are twelve years old when they are whisked away from the shadows of their disenfranchised mining towns to dazzling Belavere City to discover their magical potential. They uncover a world-changing secret and are thrust into a violent class war, navigating love, loss, and devastating betrayals.
Cousins in Crime is the true story of Alfred and Charles Polizzi. After struggling to grow up on the streets of Cleveland at the turn of the century, they became members of the Mayfield Road Mob, an Italian American gang that had formed in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood. With the help of their new friends, a wealthy lifestyle came easily- until they began running into government agencies. Then they found themselves alone, fighting an uphill battle to remain free. Author Frank Monastra […]
Jenna Martínez is a finalist for the 2025 Jack McCarthy Book Prize, a 2023–2024 Literary Cleveland Breakthrough Writing Resident, and a recipient of the 2023 Unidos Por El Arte Grant. Her work has been supported by the Macondo Writers Workshop and Community of Writers Workshop. Her poetry has appeared or is forthcoming in The Kenyon Review, HAD, […]
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a fantasy novel by V.E. Schwab about a French woman who makes a Faustian bargain for immortality in 1714, but is cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets, leading to a life across centuries where she can leave no mark on the world until she meets a man […]