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Book signings, author events, musical performances, panel discussions, wine & beer tastings, meet ups and other expressive events fill our calendar. Have an idea for a perspective-changing program you don’t see here? Email info@visiblevoicebooks.com and tell us more.
Noveltea Reservations (Every Tues-Thurs)
Enjoy afternoon tea in the bookstore every Tuesday - Thursday from 2:30 - 4:00 PM. Get more info & reserve your spot by clicking the button below.
Movie vs. Book Club
“What's better, the movie or the book?"
How does a novel change when it is adapted for the screen? What are the merits of each medium? Visible Voice Books invites you to the first meeting of our new Movie vs. Book Club, where we’ll discuss these very questions.
During this month’s meeting, we’ll discuss Colson Whitehead’s novel The Nickel Boys and its recently released adaptation directed by RaMell Ross. We encourage you to purchase the novel from us and watch the movie prior to the meeting (available for rent on AppleTV, YouTube & other platforms).
Based on the real story of a reform school that operated for 111 years and warped the lives of thousands of children, The Nickel Boys is a devastating, driven narrative that showcases a great American novelist writing at the height of his powers and “should further cement Whitehead as one of his generation’s best” (Entertainment Weekly).
Your host for the evening is Isaac, who says he loves movies (and books) "too much," but promises he's not an overbearing bro. He enjoys associative, nonlinear editing but also oners; visually predominant films but also films consisting mainly of conversations; and he hopes that his wide range of interests will welcome many film and book fans who want to bond over art.
Use the form below to sign up and stay connected for book club updates (or just show up on the 5th!)
Book Launch: Requiem - Virginia Konchan
Join us to celebrate the launch of Virginia Konchan’s newest collection of poems, Requiem, with guest readers Zach Savich and Alison Stine. This event will be live-streamed on Zoom - if you’re not able to join us in the store, use the meeting info below or click the button to join virtually.
Meeting ID: 897 3128 6480
Passcode: 429828
Requiem is a collection anchored in personal and collective grief, remembrance, and commemoration, journeying through the loss of a mother in a series of elegies, fugues, and lamentations. Historical and religious mourning rites, and the grief work of John Donne, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Roland Barthes, Emily Dickinson, and Mozart, among others, establish a lyric dialogue around aesthetic representations of grief, invoking a doubleness between the griever and the grieved; a mutuality and interconnectedness that illuminate the role of witness in poetry, mortality, and transcendence. Requiem enacts our deepest longing: to honor and immortalize the beloved.
Virginia Konchan is the author of five books of poetry, including Requiem (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2025) and Bel Canto (Carnegie Mellon, 2022), as well as a short story collection, Anatomical Gift. Coeditor of Marbles on the Floor: How to Assemble a Book of Poems (University of Akron Press, 2023), and recipient of fellowships from the Amy Clampitt Poet Residency Program and the National Endowment for the Humanities, her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, The Atlantic, and The Believer.
Zach Savich's latest books are the poetry collection Momently and the hybrid critical-memoir-for-performance A Field of Telephones. He teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Alison Stine's first novel Road Out of Winter won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her second novel Trashlands was long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award. Also the author of three books of poetry and a novella, her awards include an Individual Artist Fellowship from the NEA and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship. Her new novel is Dust, from Wednesday Books/St. Martin's Press.
“It is impossible to fully acknowledge what Konchan accomplishes in this book of meta-critical thinking: her revelations are wizard-like, authentic, and masterful. The best book I’ve read in a long time.”
Literary Cleveland IBD Poetry Crawl
Celebrate Independent Bookstore Day 2025 by taking part in Lit Cleveland’s first official FREE Poetry Crawl. Attend one event or join us for the full crawl!
#1 Loganberry Books - 11:00-11:30am ET with host Eric Odum of One Mic Open
#2 Appletree Books - 12:00-12:30pm ET with host George Bilgere of John Carroll University
#3 Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry - 1:00-1:30pm ET with host Ray McNiece of Tongue in Groove
#4 ThirdSpace Reading Room - 2:00-2:30pm ET with hosts Just C.O.S. and Morgan Paige of Poetry Unplugged
#5 Clevo Books - 3:00-3:30pm ET with host Philip Metres of John Carroll University ft. poetry in translation
#6 Visible Voice Books - 4:00-4:30pm ET with hosts Stephanie Ginese and TJ "Peachcurls" Maclin of Con Tú
All Of: A Poetry Reading of Things Called Of
An evening of readings from volumes of poetry titled Of.
Kai Ihns is the author of two books of poems, most recently Of (The Elephants, 2024). She lives in Chicago.
Ossian Foley is the author of OF: Vol I (UDP) and works for the government.
Justin Cox is the author of Stock Pond (Bench Editions, 2025). His writing has appeared in Annulet, Chicago Review, Fence, Tagvverk, and elsewhere. Justin teaches at the University of Iowa and has been a fellow at the International Institute of Modern Letters in Wellington, New Zealand.
David James Miller is the author of CANT and the chapbooks FOLD, As Sequence, and Facts & Other Objects. He is founding editor of Elis Press and SET, a journal of innovative writing that comes out once in a while.
Caryl Pagel’s most recent book is Free Clean Fill Dirt (University of Akron Press), named for a sign seen at Lakeview Cemetery. She teaches and makes books with her friends.
Zach Peckham is a writer, editor, and educator. He is the author of the poetry collection As If And, forthcoming from New Mundo Press in 2026, and his work has recently appeared in Full Stop, Mercury Firs, Landfill, APARTMENT, and Tilted House. He is the managing editor at the CSU Poetry Center, an editor at large at the Cleveland Review of Books, and he teaches at Cleveland State and the Cleveland Institute of Art. He also runs a small press called Community Mausoleum and a journal called Coma.
Alyssa Perry is the author of Oily Doily (Bench Editions, 2024). Her writing appears with Annulet, Coma, Fence, Mercury Firs, and elsewhere. Perry is poetry editor at the Cleveland Review of Books and an editor at Rescue Press. She teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Lindsay Turner is the author of The Upstate (University of Chicago Press, 2023) and Songs & Ballads (Prelude Books, 2018). She's also a French-to-English translator of poetry and philosophy. Originally from northeast Tennessee, she lives in Cleveland, where she is Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Case Western Reserve University.