Previous 2008 programs
May 22, 2008
featured Dr. Cynthia Dillard, from the College of Education and Human Ecology and author of On Spiritual Strivings: Transforming an African American Woman’s Academic Life
May 15, 2008
Rick Brown, editor of Naked Sunfish and fellow contributors to the popular e magazine including avant-garde poet Dr. John Bennett, and Marilou Suszko, featured author at this year’s Ohioana Book Festival, shared spontaneous and sporadic highlights from their own work.
Yvonne Brown joined Rick on the musical selections.
May 8, 2008
OSU Libraries Diversity Committee presents a program commemorating American Negro League baseball. Gerry Greenberg, University Libraries, read a selection on Satchel Paige from The Fireside Book of Baseball. Eboni Francis, University Libraries, engaged the audience in a participatory reading of Say hey: a song of Willie Mays.
May 1, 2008
Library Security students Kristen Depp, Calvin McCammon, Jason Patch and Steve Paul shared a variety of readings.
April 24, 2008
Sharon Oliver reads from the work of poet David Krohn, sharing reflections from his cabin in the woods of Maine. Joe Shaw, Office of Research, shared some of his short stories, including “The Move”.
April 17, 2008
Ignacio Corona, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, read Ray Bradbury’s short story “Calling Mexico“. Ted Riedinger, University Libraries, read “Once Upon a Time in Ipanema” from Traveler’s Tales: Brazil.
April 10, 2008
Featured a program of Russian and Georgian poetry presented by Center for Slavic & East European Studies colleagues Irma Murvanishvili, Maryann Walther-Keisel and Justin Cade.
April 3, 2008
Donna Distel, Outreach & Engagement, read a variety of seasonal selections from Baseball: A Literary Anthology. Sy Kleinman, Faculty Emeritus, shared the George Meyer essay “My Undoing” which was published in the New Yorker in May 2007.
March 6, 2008
ReadAloud, Reading Recovery, & Read Across America: Celebrating our ability to learn to read for enjoyment. Dan Noonan,University Archives, was joined by students Ben Noonan, Kevin Schlichting, Liam Martin, Sarah Bellish, Ali Jank, and Cordelia Noonan, from Evening Street Elementary School and their Reading Recovery teacher, Kellie Ehlers in reading from their favorite works and some Dr. Seuss to boot. Dan and Kellie discussed instilling the desire to read for pleasure instead of because we have to. Everyone received a copy of the “Reader’s Bill of Rights”.
February 28, 2008
Ruthmarie Mitsch, Department of African American and African Studies, and Brenda Goodwin, University Libraries, presented a program celebrating African literature from Sundiata to el Saadawi, and also shared the music and lyrics of some modern griots.
February 21, 2008
Larry Hurtubise, Karen Richards, and Marguerite Weibel from the Prior Health Sciences Library and Center for Knowledge Management shared readings from Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and others reflecting on the intersection of medicine and literature.
February 14, 2008
Ohioana Library presented a program in honor of Valentine’s Day featuring nationally recognized Central Ohio Romance Writers Rosemary Laurey and Donna MacMeans and Janet Lynnford.
Donna read from her recently released The Education of Mrs. Brimley. Rosemary read “Fly with a Dragon” from her soon to be released Sacrifice. Janet, know on the OSU campus as Janet Ciccone the Director of Strategic Communications & Marketing with the College of Education and Human Ecology, read from two of her historical romances set in 16th century England and Scotland.
February 7, 2008
James Petsche, Wexner Center, shared a reading from Elizabeth Spencer’s Southern Woman: new and selected fiction.
Leta Hendricks, Fine Arts Library, shared readings from Benjamin Banneker, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and other African-American astronomers, astrophysicists, and astronauts.
January 31, 2008
Marcia Farr, College of Education and Human Ecology, read from her book Rancheros in Chicagoacán : language and identity in a transnational community.
Kevin Boyle, Department of History, author of the award winning book Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age, shared a selection from his new work in progress, tentatively titled The Splendid Dead.
January 24, 2008
Ric Radar, Greek and Latin, read “The Teacher” by George Ioannou. Henry Griffy, University Libraries, read selections from
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.
January 17, 2008
Rev. Susan Ritchie, North Unitarian Universalist Congregation, read from her essay “Trickster Hope”. Jason Payne, Comparative Studies, read from Anthony Bourdain’s A Cook’s Tour: in search of the perfect meal.
January 10, 2008
University Libraries Security students, who provide set up for each week’s event, shared a variety of selections. Calvin McCammon read from The Heroes Among Us by his grandfather Joe L. McCammon. Steve Paul read from Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Kristen Depp read Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and Heather Glasgo completed the program with More Spaghetti I Say! by Rita Golden Gelman.
August 7th, 2006
