Cleveland Public Library will host the FREE and open to the public debut stage reading of the Karamu House production of The Fire inside: the Story and Poetry of Nikki Giovanni, on Saturday, February 17 at 3:00 p.m. in the Louis Stokes Wing Auditorium, of the Main Library, 325 Superior Avenue. Written by Susan Watson Turner and directed by Terrence Spivey, artistic director of Karamu, The Fire Inside presents an ensemble cast in a dramatization of the life and works of the African American poet, following Giovanni’s career from her early years in the Black Arts Movement through her writing and life today. The play will make its world debut in July at Cleveland’s annual Ingenuity Festival.