Plum City Reading Series is Literary Cleveland's new regular reading series bringing the country's most interesting and groundbreaking authors to Cleveland. Plum City aims to highlight the work of independent publishers while thoughtfully curating celebratory evenings of literature and community.
Join us for our first 2025 reading featuring Oberlin professors Chanda Feldman (Glance) and Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers (Miss Southeast) with Cleveland's own Mary Grimm (Transubstantiation).
This installment of the Plum City Reading Series will take place Wednesday, February 26 at 7 pm at Loganberry Books (13015 Larchmere in Cleveland), to be immediately followed by an afterparty at the Literary Cleveland Offices (13002 Larchmere).
NOTE: In keeping with our mission, to ensure diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the registration fee for this event is "Pay What You Can." We believe every writer, reader, storyteller, and literary enthusiast who wants to attend a Literary Cleveland event should be able to have that experience. "Pay What You Can" registration allows comfortable, affordable participation for everyone. We have suggested fees—you can pay one of them, or pay what you can. Your participation is the priority for us.
Chanda Feldman is the author of Glance (LSU Press, 2024), which received the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award, and Approaching the Fields (LSU Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Harvard Review, Poetry, the Southern Review and other journals, and her work is featured in anthologies such as This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets and The Best American Poetry. Feldman has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Feldman is currently the Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College.
Mary Grimm has had three books published, Left to Themselves, Transubstantiation, and Stealing Time. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Antioch Review, and the Mississippi Review, as well as in a number of journals that publish flash fiction, including Helen, The Citron Review, and Tiferet. Currently, she is working on a series of climate change novellas set in past and future Cleveland.
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of two poetry collections: The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons (Acre Books, 2020), named one of Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2020; and Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; as well as the nonfiction book Miss Southeast: Essays (Curbstone Books, 2024). Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Waxwing, Bennington Review, Shenandoah, FIELD, and numerous other journals. Also an essayist, Rogers’s creative nonfiction has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
Plum City Reading Series is Literary Cleveland's new regular reading series bringing the country's most interesting and groundbreaking authors to Cleveland. Plum City aims to highlight the work of independent publishers while thoughtfully curating celebratory evenings of literature and community.
Join us for our first 2025 reading featuring Oberlin professors Chanda Feldman (Glance) and Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers (Miss Southeast) with Cleveland's own Mary Grimm (Transubstantiation).
This installment of the Plum City Reading Series will take place Wednesday, February 26 at 7 pm at Loganberry Books (13015 Larchmere in Cleveland), to be immediately followed by an afterparty at the Literary Cleveland Offices (13002 Larchmere).
NOTE: In keeping with our mission, to ensure diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility, the registration fee for this event is "Pay What You Can." We believe every writer, reader, storyteller, and literary enthusiast who wants to attend a Literary Cleveland event should be able to have that experience. "Pay What You Can" registration allows comfortable, affordable participation for everyone. We have suggested fees—you can pay one of them, or pay what you can. Your participation is the priority for us.
Chanda Feldman is the author of Glance (LSU Press, 2024), which received the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award, and Approaching the Fields (LSU Press, 2018). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Harvard Review, Poetry, the Southern Review and other journals, and her work is featured in anthologies such as This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets and The Best American Poetry. Feldman has received a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, the Wallace Stegner Fellowship from Stanford University, and an Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award. Feldman is currently the Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College.
Mary Grimm has had three books published, Left to Themselves, Transubstantiation, and Stealing Time. Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Antioch Review, and the Mississippi Review, as well as in a number of journals that publish flash fiction, including Helen, The Citron Review, and Tiferet. Currently, she is working on a series of climate change novellas set in past and future Cleveland.
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of two poetry collections: The Tilt Torn Away from the Seasons (Acre Books, 2020), named one of Boston Globe’s Best Books of 2020; and Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award; as well as the nonfiction book Miss Southeast: Essays (Curbstone Books, 2024). Her poems have appeared in POETRY, Boston Review, Crazyhorse, Waxwing, Bennington Review, Shenandoah, FIELD, and numerous other journals. Also an essayist, Rogers’s creative nonfiction has appeared in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, The Best American Travel Writing, The Missouri Review, The Rumpus, Prairie Schooner, and elsewhere.
Chanda Feldman is the author of Glance (2024), which received the L.E. Phillabaum Poetry Award, and Approaching the Fields (2018). Her poems have appeared in AGNI, Harvard Review, Poetry, the Southern Review and other journals, and her work is featured in This Is the Honey: An Anthology of Contemporary Black Poets and The Best American Poetry. Feldman is currently the Eric and Jane Nord Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Oberlin College.
Mary Grimm has had two books published, Left to Themselves (novel) and Stealing Time (story collection). Her stories have appeared in The New Yorker, Antioch Review, and the Mississippi Review, as well as in a number of journals that publish flash fiction.
Elizabeth Lindsey Rogers is the author of Chord Box (University of Arkansas Press, 2013), finalist for both the Miller Williams Prize and the Lambda Literary Award; and The Tilt Torn Away From the Seasons (Acre Books, 2020).
