Christine Fuller received her ScB degree in Applied Mathematics from Brown University. She has been a Premium Director at H & R Block for the past seven years, and has 28 years of experience as a bookkeeper and nine years experience as a tax instructor.

According to Fuller, "Tax preparation is challenging and stimulating work. There`s always something new to learn. I enjoy working with people and helping them with something that is fun for me!"

Following her talk, Mrs. Fuller will be available to answer questions.
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Ari Lesser is a 23 year old from Cleveland Heights Ohio. He graduated in 2008 from the University of Oregon with a degree in political science. He travels around the country performing spoken word poetry, rapping, and singing, on stage, at music festivals, in campgrounds, and on the street. His material covers everything from spirituality to, sustainability, politics, to humor. His parents, Cleveland Heights natives, created the Funny Times, the longest running ad-free humor publication in the country.

Suzanne Savickas obtained her M.F.A. from Naropa University. Her poems have appeared in small press publications including Blood Pudding Press, blossombones, The Battered Suitcase, Thirteen Myna Birds, Monkey Puzzle Magazine, Pinstripe Fedora Magazine, and Oranges & Sardines. Currently, she is writing a poetry manuscript based on Cindy Sherman’s Untitled Film Stills. Suzanne is founder and editor of Le Pink-Elephant Press and co-editor of the press’s new subsidiary, A Trunk of Delirium.

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Kathleen Cerveny is a graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art. She taught art at the high school and University levels, maintained a ceramic studio, and helped launch the New Organization for the Visual Arts (NOVA). She is a past President of Ohio Designer Craftsmen, a statewide organization for professional studio artists and was WCPN`s first producer and broadcast journalist for the arts. She joined the Cleveland Foundation in 1991. As the Foundation`s Arts Program Director, she has overseen all of its arts grantmaking including several major initiatives, one of which led to the development of the 2006 Issue 18 campaign for local public support for the arts. In December 2008, she launched the arts initiative: Creative Fusion; an International Artist in Residence grant making program and she recently assumed the additional role of Director of Evaluation and Institutional Learning.

Kathleen works and reads with Take Nine, a group of local women poets, and has been published in Tributaries, a journal of nature writing, and by Luna Press. One of her poems was published on RTA bus cards as part of The Lit`s Moving Minds.

A Friends of the Library sponsored program.

A Friends of the Library sponsored program.

Learn more from Christine B. Stevens from the Cleveland Area Chapter of the Alzheimer`s Association.