Lines from Loganberry

On this episode, Local Voices manager Miesha Headen hosts author Elizabeth Wilcox to discuss her new book, The Long Tail of Trauma. Wilcox discusses the weight of trauma as it affected her family through five generations, focusing on how what her grandmother experienced in childhood affected her mother, and how that trauma came to affect her own life.

Purchase The Long Tail of Trauma from Loganberry online at: https://bookshop.org/books/the-long-tail-of-trauma-a-memoir/9781950584628?aid=1783&listref=local-voices

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On this episode of Lines from Loganberry, Local Voices manager MIesha Headen hosts Julia Kuo, Cleveland-based illustrator of the newly published picture book I Dream of Popo. In their discussion, Miesha and Julia discuss her career, her experience working on Popo, and how she was able to relate the work to her own lived experience as a Taiwanese-American. Following their discussion, Julia presents a talk detailing the processes behind developing a children's book, from conceptualization to publication.

Purchase I Dream of Popo from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/i-dream-popo

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On this episode of Lines from Loganberry, we feature a talk by geologist and former NASA astronaut Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space. In her new book, Handprints on Hubble: An Astronaut’s Story of Invention, Kathryn details her experience working on the team that launched the Hubble Space Telescope in 1990. Marcy Frumker of the International Women's Air & Space Museum hosts and joins in for a brief Q&A at the end of the program.

Purchase Handprints on Hubble from Loganberry online at: https://store.loganberrybooks.com/handprints-hubble-astronauts-story-invention

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On this episode of Lines from Loganberry, we feature an interview with poets R. Erica Doyle and Ross Gay, hosted by Loganberry’s Harriett Logan, and organized together with Local Voices manager Miesha Headen. In their conversation, Doyle and Gay discuss their work, their careers, and their relationships to language.

Books mentioned by R. Erica Doyle and Ross Gay can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at the following link:

https://bookshop.org/lists/ross-gay-r-erica-doyle-praised-poetry-list-lines-of-loganberry-podcast

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In this special edition of Lines from Loganberry, we present a seminar conducted by Dr. Monica C. Bell, Associate Professor of Law & Sociology at Yale Law School. In her talk, presented as part of Loganberry’s Black Future Month, Dr. Bell discusses her research into the noncriminal functions of policing. In particular, policing’s role in reinforcing and reproducing racial residential segregation. This seminar was recorded live and remotely, on Thursday, August 6, 2020.

Dr. Monica Bell's recent article in the NYU Law Review, "Anti-Segregation Policing":

https://www.nyulawreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/NYULawReview-Volume-95-Issue-3-Bell.pdf?fbclid=IwAR3MzML7MlnzNzWKcwDC-3697KVqUzJrCszdjD-WtAJNRC24N-V_W80r2fo

Dr. Bell's recommendations for further reading:

Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership

https://bookshop.org/a/1783/9781469653662

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Betty can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at https://store.loganberrybooks.com/betty-novel

Betty is the second novel written by Tiffany McDaniel, a coming of age story about a girl born to a white mother and a Cherokee father in rural Ohio, and how she manages the brutal secrets of her family's past as they come to light.

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Voices from the Ape House can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at https://store.loganberrybooks.com/voices-ape-house

This week on the Intellect and Inspiration Series, Loganberry's Local Voices manager Miesha Headen speaks to Beth Armstrong, author of Voices from the Ape House. Beth worked with and eventually lead the department of gorilla husbandry at the at Columbus Zoo from 1982 to 1996, a period of extraordinary excellence spearheaded by Jack Hanna, when the Columbus Zoo became of the top zoos in the United States according Condé Naste Traveler and USA Today. Beth later became the Columbus Zoo’s first field conservationist, saving species around the world and supporting community-based conservation in places such as Guatemala and India. She now mentors up-and-coming primatologists, and supports indigenous conversation throughout the world.

Additional reading recommended by Beth Armstrong include:

Gorillas in the Mist, Dian Fossey

Bird by Bird, Anne Lamott

The Coming Plague, Laurie Garrett

The Memory of Running, McLarty

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**This episode originally aired as a special Lines from Loganberry Facebook Live event on June 17, 2020**

The Vanishing Half can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at https://store.loganberrybooks.com/vanishing-half

Join Loganberry's own Local Voices manager Miesha Headen, author Susan Petrone, and bookseller Margy Adams as they discuss Brit Bennett's new critically acclaimed novel, The Vanishing Half. This discussion is predominately spoiler-free of major plot points (although minor details are revealed). 

Miesha Headen is the Local Voices Manager at Loganberry Books. Local Voices is a program to promote Ohio based authors through events and marketing. Miesha is also the project manager for Beauty for Ashes, a collaborative journalism project confronting issues of healthcare disparities and black women's maternal health.

Susan Petrone is a Cleveland-based writer whose work has appeared in such diverse outlets as CoolCleveland, ESPN.com, and Glimmer Train. She is the author of the novels Throw Like a Woman, The Super Ladies, and, most recently, The Heebie-Jeebie Girl.

Margy Adams is a bookseller at Loganberry Books. She graduated from The College of Wooster in 2019 with a degree in philosophy and English, and she will soon be continuing her studies in critical race theory and decolonial thought in graduate school. Here is the link to her review of The Vanishing Half. 

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The Beauty for Ashes collaborative journalism project grew out of a desire to hear directly the voices of Black women who have suffered from the loss of a child or a mother during childbirth. We heard, recorded, and memorialized the stories of nine Black women from Cleveland. If disparities in healthcare and birth outcomes stemmed from institutional racism, then the women’s stories would assist in providing the solutions. What the Beauty for Ashes project intends to accomplish is a wedding of these women’s voices with current information to improve lives in Cuyahoga County.

In this interview, Miesha Wilson Headen and Pastor Aaron Phillips, Executive Director of Cleveland Clergy Coalition, interview Chasity Strawder on Radio One’s 1490 AM station in Cleveland. Chasity wrote a memoir entitled “Broken for the Promise” which recounts her painful pregnancy and the indifference of most of her medical providers. She discusses nearly miscarrying, intermittent homelessness with her husband, and a struggle for basic transportation.

Ida Finds Her Voice can be purchased from Loganberry Books online at https://store.loganberrybooks.com/ida-finds-her-voice

Ida Finds Her Voice is a picture book to help children and parents talk about hard topics like prejudice and intolerance written by Dr. Kate Anderson Foley and Jenifer Anderson-Smith.

Dr. Kate Anderson is the CEO of The Education Policy & Practice Group. Kate partners with local, state, and national organizations, education agencies, and various industries providing her expertise with strategic planning, asset-based education policies and practices, and consulting.  

Jenifer Anderson-Smith is  a grassroots activist engaged in community work to promote racial justice and other social causes.

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