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East Cleveland, OH — Literary legend Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti will be making his way to a writing workshop near you.
The East Cleveland Public Library (ECPL) Presents: a Writers Workshop with Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti on Saturday, December 27th, 2025 starting at 9:00 am. (ECPL will be opening an hour early for this event.)
Join us for a powerful morning of creativity, culture, and craft with one of the most influential literary voices of our time. Dr. Haki R. Madhubuti: poet, author, educator, pioneer of the Black Arts Movement, and founder of Chicago’s Third World Press — will guide an inspiring and transformative writers workshop. This event is free and open to the public, with limited seating available. Click here to view and share our Facebook event for this program.
Location: East Cleveland Public Library's Lower Auditorium, 14101 Euclid Ave. East Cleveland, OH 44112. Feel free to call the ECPL at (216) 541-4128 with any questions, or visit our website at www.eastclevelandpubliclibrary.org.
Madhubuti has published more than 36 books, including Think Black (1967); Black Pride (1968); Don’t Cry, Scream (1969); and We Walk the Way of the New World (1970). His poetry and essays have been selected for more than 100 anthologies. His book, Black Men: Obsolete, Single, Dangerous? The African American Family in Transition (1991), sold more than 100,000 copies. The National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities have recognized his poetry, and he has won the American Book Award, an Illinois Arts Council Award, the Studs Terkel Humanities Service Award, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Prize in poetry for Liberation Narratives (2009).
The ECPL's continued commitment to literacy and educational programming coincides with our mission to provide life enhancing, conscious-raising library services and cultural activities that reflect the needs of the East Cleveland Community.
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