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 January 18, 2007 Ted Riedinger, University Libraries read selections on Oxford from Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh.

January 25, 2007

Andrea Ward-Ross from the College of Biological Sciences 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.

February 1, 2007

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.

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 15, 2007

Ohioana Library presented readings in celebration of Valentines Day by romanceauthors 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 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.

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.

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.”