The Braille Encyclopedia by Naomi Cohn | Poetry/Memoir
Wednesday, January 22 | 6:30 p.m.
Rondo Community Library | 461 North Dale Street, Saint Paul

OR via Zoom | REGISTER HERE for Zoom event

About the Book

Told in the form of imagined alphabetical encyclopedia entries, this meditation on progressive vision loss examines and illuminates Cohn’s at first halting then avid embrace of braille as part of relearning to read and write as an adult. Using linked essays and prose poems, Cohn links her personal story to the larger discussion of how our society views disability.

About the Author

Naomi Cohn is a writer and teaching artist. Her past includes a childhood among Chicago academics; involvement in a guerrilla feminist art collective; and work as an encyclopedia copy editor, community organizer, grant writer, fundraising consultant, and therapist. Cohn has also appeared on NPR and been honored by a Best of the Net Finalist and two Pushcart nominations.

About the Fireside Reading Series

Great authors by the fireside.

FREE
Wednesdays | January 8 – January 29, 2025 | 6:30 p.m.
Rondo Community Library | 461 North Dale Street, Saint Paul

or via Zoom
thefriends.org/fireside

Cozy up for four weeks of readings with great writers. In partnership with Saint Paul Public Library, Fireside Reading Series highlights some of Minnesota’s finest writers who have published new work.

Captioning will be provided for all four livestreamed events. ASL interpretation is available upon request with at least seven days’ notice. Contact [email protected] or 651-222-3242.

These programs are made possible in part through an appropriation from the Minnesota State Legislature to The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library as the Minnesota Center for the Book.

All Fireside Events

Wednesday, January 8^th
Taiyon Coleman, Traveling Without Moving: Essays from a Black Woman Trying to Survive in America
Memoir

Wednesday, January 15^th
Jokeda “JoJo” Bell, Red Stained: The Life of Hilda Simms
Nonfiction

Wednesday, January 22^nd
Naomi Cohn, The Braille Encyclopedia
Poetry/Memoir

Wednesday, January 29^th
Pallavi Dixit, Edison
Novel