Summer Fun Guide 2011

The Cleveland poet's latest full-length poetry collection, We Look Better Alive, arrives on April 28. By Annie Nickoloff

The land we call “Northeast Ohio” was originally forged through eons of glacial pressure and continues to be transformed countless times, as told by this excerpt from An Alternative History of Cleveland, which uncovers the worst blackout in the history of North America. By Jon Wlasiuk

The awards, now in their 90th year, honors Danzy Senna, John Swanson Jacobs, Jonathan D. S. Schroeder, Tessa Hulls, Janice Harrington and Yusef Komunyakaa. By Annie Nickoloff