History
The Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society (NOBS) is an association of book collectors, dealers, librarians, and others interested in promoting the production, preservation, collection, and sale of fine and antiquarian books, and the preservation and protection of the heritage of the printed word. For more information and to join the community, please visit www.nobsbooks.org
NOBS Forums
Monthly NOBS Forums, conversations throughout the book world, take place in the LitArts room at Loganberry Books every fourth Thursday at 7:30 pm. [NOTE: during this time of Covid-19, all events are virtual]
Upcoming Events
Thursday, February 9, 7:00PM
Broadsides &
Ephemera
Tonight our featured reader is Robert Miltner!
Robert
Miltner is a writer and educator living in Northeast Ohio,
and an Emeritus Professor of Creative Writing and literature
at Kent State University, Stark. As an author, he
writes poetry, prose poetry, short fiction, creative
nonfiction, and is currently working on a novel.
He
has received the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence in
Poetry Award; Ohio Art Council Creative Writer Residency
Award at Vermont Studio Center; New Rivers Press Many Voices
Poetry Prize; Wick Chapbook Award; Red Berry Editions
Chapbook Award; He is a National Poetry Series finalist;
Center for Book Arts Chapbook finalist; Louise Bogan
Award for Artistic Merit finalist; Colorado Prize for Poetry
finalist; Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize finalist; and an
Ohioana Book Award in Poetry finalist.
Among
his interests are writing, reading, book
collecting, traveling, supporting local restaurants and
farmer's markets, joining causes that support people over
profits, attending poetry readings because audiences are
crucial for the arts, going to local theater performances,
being active in local writing and arts communities, and
supporting small and independent presses because they are a
necessity for a free press and for generating new directions
in the literary arts.
