{"id":30367,"date":"2021-10-04T10:53:34","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/?p=30367"},"modified":"2021-10-04T14:23:37","modified_gmt":"2021-10-04T18:23:37","slug":"meet-books-on-the-hills-cleveland-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bapl.org\/meet-books-on-the-hills-cleveland-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Books on the Hill’s Cleveland Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Welcoming Cleveland Wall: Our Newest Team Member at BAPL!
\nBy Dominic Trabosci<\/span><\/h3>\n

The library is proud to welcome our newest hire Cleveland Wall to the team!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Officially referred to as our Satellite Technician, Cleveland will act as the jack-of-all-trades at the new Books on the Hill satellite branch in Fountain Hill. She\u2019s excited to help readers find what they\u2019re looking for, order materials from various branches, and issue\/renew library cards among a whole host of other helpful work. Cleveland is currently planning a number of story time sessions and poetry\/book workshops with the help of outreach coordinator Regina Kochmaruk.\"\"<\/span><\/p>\n

In order to get to know Cleveland Wall a bit more, we asked her a few introductory questions in this fun Q&A:<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

What kind of work did you do before you came to BAPL?<\/b><\/p>\n

For a long time I was working a rather dismal clerical job. (There\u2019s a five-page poem about it in my book, Let X=X<\/em>, telling the tale of woe.) Then, right before the pandemic hit, my first book got published and I left my awful job to be a teaching artist.<\/span><\/p>\n

What drew you to working at the library?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

I adore libraries in general and ours in particular\u2014brilliant use of community resources. I dig all the innovative programs like Studio 11 and the tool library on the Southside and the bike-lending program\u2014and now this groovy new branch housed in a disused bookmobile!<\/span><\/p>\n

What do you do outside of work? What are your hobbies?\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Poetry is my main thing, so I\u2019m usually getting up to some poetry or poetry-adjacent or poetry-catty-corner shenanigans. I host readings now & then and I perform with The Starry Eyes\u2014a poetry\/music combo, with my husband, Michael, on classical guitar. We actually recorded an album here at Studio 11, <\/span>The Garden of Terrors and Delights<\/span><\/i>. And there is \u201cThe Conversation Project\u201d coming up at the Ice House on November 13\u2014a collaboration with musicians, poets, and aerial dancers.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, I have a freelance teaching artist practice. I have a really exciting project coming up with Norberto Dominguez over the course of this school year where we\u2019ll be visiting Jennie Gilrain\u2019s 4th grade class at Freemansburg Elementary and writing poems with the students about the official bird of Bethlehem, the Chimney Swift. Then we\u2019ll be exchanging poems with students at the other end of the swifts\u2019 migration in northern Chile. Shout-out to Southside Children’s Festival and Pennsylvania Council on the Arts for their support. I\u2019m also pretty fired up about embodied poetics, so I\u2019ll be leading a couple of workshops on that at the Ice House this winter. So many shenanigans. See <\/span>clevelandwall.com<\/span><\/a> for details.<\/span><\/p>\n

In my spare time I do collage, assemblage, and book arts, and ride around on my bike.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are you most passionate about in life?<\/b><\/p>\n

Language and grammar\u2014as geeky as that sounds. Art, philosophy, justice. Not necessarily in that order. Going to new places and learning new things. And all kinds of puzzles.<\/span><\/p>\n

What are your thoughts on the new venture \u201cBooks on the Hill\u201d?<\/b><\/p>\n

I think it\u2019s a wonderfully elegant solution which both extends the life of the bookmobile and provides a satellite branch for Fountain Hill community with minimal fuss. Also, it is adorable. Have you seen it<\/a>? The outside is all painted with Fuzzytown critters from Zack Ohora\u2019s books. Inside it\u2019s all cozy wooden shelves full of books & movies. It is really a valuable thing to have a library you can walk to\u2014better still if it\u2019s at the edge of a park, tucked under magnificent sycamores.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is the last book you read?<\/b><\/p>\n

At the moment I am reading <\/span>My Favorite Thing Is Monsters<\/span><\/i> by Emil Ferris, which I really love. It\u2019s a beautifully drawn graphic novel, the text lavish with keenly observed details.<\/span><\/p>\n

If you could be any animal, which animal would you be and why?<\/b><\/p>\n

Tardigrade. Impervious to heat and cold and can survive interstellar space by essentially turning into glass. Visible to the naked eye, but rarely seen on account of being transparent. I just think they\u2019re neat.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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