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Speak one-on-one with Dr. Mary Weems, the 2019-2020 Writer in Residence.
Speak one-on-one with Dr. Mary Weems, the 2019-2020 Writer in Residence. Drop in any time during her public office hours at the William N. Skirball Writers' Center at the South Euclid-Lyndhurst Branch.
Writer in Residence Dr. Mary E. Weems is a poet, playwright, author, performer, imagination-intellect theorist and social/cultural foundations scholar. She is the author of 13 books, including Blackeyed: Plays and Monologues; Writings of Healing and Resistance: Empathy and the Imagination-Intellect; and Public Education and the Imagination-Intellect: I Speak From the Wound in My Mouth. Her five chapbooks include white, and she has written numerous poems, articles and book chapters.
Dr. Weems received a 2015 Cleveland Arts Prize for her full-length drama MEAT, and her play, Another Way to Dance, won Cleveland Public Theatre’s Chilcote Award. Both of her books of poems – For(e)closure and An Unmistakable Shade of Red and the Obama Chronicles – were finalists for Ohioana Book Awards. She has also been nominated for a Pushcart Prize.
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