2007 ReadAlouds
June 15th, 2006
November 29, 2007
Chris Andersen, Office of Research, shared two holiday themed stories from James Thurber: “A Visit from Saint Nicholas In The Ernest Hemingway Manner” and “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”
Jason Gray, University Press, joined him on the program with selections from his recent chapbook, How to Paint the Savior Dead.
November 15, 2007
Showcased readings in celebration of the Living Culture Initiative and the Beanfield exhibit by Michael Mercil, Department of Art.
Rick Livingston , Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities and his students present a “Field of Beans” anthology of poetry and prose.
Michael read a short prose selection by Verlyn Klinkenborg that previews a proposed project for “living culture” that promises a look at animals.
November 8, 2007
Featured readings tuned to the William Wegman exhibit. Charlene Fix, professor of English at CCAD read the James Thurber story “The Dog that Bit People” as well as several selections from her book Flowering Bruno: A Dography. Rick Brown, Univeristy Libraries and editor of Naked Sunfish, read the poetry of Maxi Branin (as translated from “bark” by Ms. Anita Branin), along with two tales about his Bichon Frise, Henri Richard.
November 1, 2007
Featured OSU Libraries authors LaTina Moss and Cheryl Lowry. Latina read the essay “Phenomenal Being” as well as exerpts from her play “gRave Reviews”. Cheryl read selections from her second novel Trunk Show.
October 25, 2007
Featured a program of selected Halloween themed readings. Maryann Walther Keisel, Center for East European and Slavic Studies, read “Call Me From the Valley” from the collection of short stories John the Balladeer by American writer of Appalachian fantasy, Manley Wade Wellman. Kenny Walther-Keisel, Columbus Alternative High School, read a selection from contemporary British author Susannah Clarke’s Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell.
October 11, 2007
Gretchen Donelson, Fine Arts Library, read Hundertwasser’s stamp manifesto. Amanda Gluibizzi, Fine Arts Library, read Sol LeWitt’s Sentences on Conceptual Art. Joe Shaw, University Libraries, read from The Writing Life by Annie Dillard and also the poem “Lower East Side” by Miguel Pinero.
October 4, 2007
Nancy Courtney, Outreach Coordinator for OSU Libraries, read selections from Messages Father by Calvin Trillin. Mary Klie, Wexner Center, read selections from Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art. James Petsche, Wexner Center, shared selections from Ann Packer’s The Dive from Clausen’s Pier.
September 27, 2007
We were very pleased to continue our participation in Listening to The Land…A Year Long Reading of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand Country Almanac. The program was held at one of the hidden treasures of OSU: the Olentangy River Wetlands Research Park. Ruthmarie Mitsch, College of Humanities, read the essays “Choral Copse” as well as “Gaucamaja.” Wetlands director Bill Mitsch read the essay “Song of Gavilan”.
Participants enjoyed a guided tour of the Wetlands after the reading.
May 31, 2007
featured
The Medieval Reading Group with a reading of some of Marie de France’s Lais. Readers included Christine Moreno, Mike Bierschenk, Department of English, and Henry Griffey, University Libararies, and Lisa Kiser, Dept. of English.
May 24, 2007
OSU Libraries ReadAloud program is pleased to be a participant in Listening to The Land…A Year Long Reading of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand Country Almanac. Thursday May 24th from 3-4 pm we hosted a reading of the remarkable essays “Odyssey” and “Clandeboye” by Rick Perkins of the National Park Service and Christina Wieg from the Ohio EPA.The program was held at one of the hidden treasures of OSU: the Olentangy River Wetlands Research Park.
May 17, 2007
Ohioana Library hosted the program featuring The Journal editors and staff reading from their all-time favorite prose and poetry ever published in The Journal.
The Journal and its co-editors Kathy Fagan and Michelle Herman, recieved the Ohioana Library’s Editorial Excellence Award in 2004.
Founded by Bill Allen and edited for many years by David Citino, The Journal is in its 34th year of publication. Don Pollock, whose first published story appeared in The Journal and whose collection, Knockemstiff, is being published by Doubleday next spring, shared a selection from his upcoming book. Editors Doug Watson, Pablo Tanguay, Jen Town, Brock Kingsley, Kathy Fagan, and former associate editor Jason Gray shared a variety of wonderful readings from The Journal.
May 11, 2007
Featured a special marathon reading in Chinese from 10am to 4pm in the Hagerty Hall courtyard by Yi-Fan Pai and her colleagues from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures of ten chapters from HongLou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber), one of the most famous Chinese classical fictions of Qing Dynasty. This event was sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Studies.
May 10, 2007
featured a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007). Readers included Joanna Anderson, University Libraries, Mary Klie from the Wexner Center, Mykola Bilokonsky, OIT and Jason Payne, Comparative Studies.
May 3, 2007
featured
Karen Bell, Dean, College of the Arts, and Vickie Blaine, Dance Faculty Emeritus, with a reading adaptation of their wonderful dance theater program “Heel Talk” which examines self-image, motherhood, divorce, and work, through a focus on aging and finding just the right shoe. The second half of the program featured
Jason Gray, University Press, reading selections of poetry by Ben Howard, Alfred University Professor Emeritus.
April 26, 2007
featured
Maryann Walther Keisel, Center for East European and Slavic Studies, and
Kenny Walther-Keisel, Columbus Alternative High School, with selected readings of British writer Douglas Adams from his non-fiction book written with Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See. David Goodwin , Centennial High School, joined the program with a chapter from Johnny got his gun by Dalton Trumbo.
April 19, 2007
featured readings by Central Ohio Fiction Writers.
Toni Leland read from her thriller, Gambling With the Enemy and Marcia James read from her comic romantic suspense At Her Command
April 12, 2007
featured a reading arranged by the Library Diversity Committee of Arabic prose, poetry and song. Readers from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture included Hanan Kashou and Joseph Zeidan. Joining them on the program is Rafah Asadi, student assistant, Science & Engineering Library. The readings were done in Arabic.. Rafah closed the program with a beautuful song.
April 5, 2007
featured readers from Yoga On High including:
Martha Marcom reading from After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield,
Linda Oshins, reading from Pulitzer Prize winner Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, and Marcia Miller reading I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell.
March 29, 2007
featured readings by Rick Brown, University Libraries, and some of his colleagues and contributors to his e-magazine Naked Sunfish, including avant-garde poet John Bennett who read from his own works including:
INSTRUCTION BOOK, Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006
LA M AL, Espoo, Finland/W. Hartford, CT: Blue Lion Books, 2006
BULL, Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006
BACKWORDS, [Espoo, Finland]: Blue Lion Books,2007
Logan Elm Press director Bob Tauber read The Story of Wu-cut and Pren-ting by Sid Chafetz. Yvonne Brown joined Rick on acoustic bass guitar for a few songs to close this special program
March 8, 2007
featured a reading of Irish Poetry accompanied by small pipes arranged by Steven Galbraith, University Libraries, and Glenn Mackie, Ben Dunham with harp accompaniment by Candyce Dunham. Poems read and songs performed included:“A Piper” by Seamus O’Sullivan followed by “The Atholl Highlanders.” “The Song of Wandering Aengus” by William Butler Yeats along with “King of the Faeries.” “The Dance Half Done” by Mary Ann Larken followed by “Paddy’s Green Shamrock Shores,” “Rory O’Mor,” and “Drowsy Maggie.” “A Warning to Conquerors” by Donagh Macdonagh followed “The Battle of Waterloo.”Passages from The Confession of Saint Patrick followed by “Eleanor Plunkett.” “Ode” by Arthur O’Shaughnessy followed by “Lindesfarne.” “The Harp that Once” by Thomas Moore, over the song of the same name. “The Fiddler of Dooney” by William Butler Yeats followed by “Banjo Breakdown” and “The Irish Washerwoman.” “The Wild Mountain Thyme.”
March 1, 2007
featured
Eboni Francis and Leta Hendricks, University Libraries, with readings that inspired the work of artist Glenn Ligon including James Baldwin’s, “Stranger in the Village”, Zora Neale Huston’s essay: “How it Feels To Be Colored Me” (1928) and “The Ballot or the Bullet” by Malcolm X.
February 22, 2007
featured Charlene Fix, Professor of English at CCAD read The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami. Charlene also shared selections from Flowering Bruno: A Dography, a book of her poetry published recently by XOXOX Press in Gambier, Ohio.
February 15, 2007
Ohioana Library presented readings in celebration of Valentines Day by romance authors from Central Ohio Fiction Writers: Patricia Sargeant read from her first novel, You Belong To Me
and Justine Wittich read from her novel Be Mine.
February 8, 2007
featured
Maryann Walther-Keisel from the Center for East European and
Slavic Studies reading poetry in Russian and in English (metric and non-metric translations), from Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Boris Pasternak and Evgeny Yevtushenko. Dr. Angela Brintlinger of the Department of Slavic and East European Languages and Literature, read from a 1931 biography of poet and statesman Gavriil Derzhavin, by Vladislav Khodasevich, another poet, his death scene, first in the original and then in her recently published translation of that excerpt in THE ANTIOCH REVIEW. The entire biography will be published in her translation by the University of Wisconsin Press this autumn.
February 1, 2007
features
David Weaver, Ohioana Library
read from his novel Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy.
The program also included several recorded excerpts of Ruby singing, from the CD which Mr. Weaver put together with the help of fellow Ruby aficionado, Arnett Howard.
January 25, 2007
featured readers from the College of Biological Sciences,
Andrea Ward-Ross read from Ultra Marathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner by Dean Karnazes
and Nancy Tomei read from the biography My Life So Far by Jane Fonda.
January 18, 2007
features
Ted Riedinger, University Libraries
read selections on Oxford from Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
January 11, 2007
featured a reading of The Great Silent Grandmother Gathering by Sharon Mehdi.
readers included
Beck Andre, CIO/TELR, Donna Distel, University Libraries, Amanda Potter, Wexner Center, Eunice Hornsby, Office of Academic Affairs and Deb Ballam, Director of The Women’s Place
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