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ReadAloud invites the community to join us for our Fall programming in the Thompson Library beginning Oct. 1, 2009. Stop by and enjoy faculty, staff, students and community members reading from their favorite works.

April 9, 2009 
Naked Sunfish ReadAloud featuring Rick Brown, editor of Naked Sunfish and fellow contributors to the popular e magazine including avant-garde poet Dr. John Bennett , and Elisa Philips , who shared spontaneous and sporadic highlights from their own work. Yvonne Brown joined Rick on the musical selections.
April 16, 2009
Medieval Reading Group members Lisa Kiser, Amanda Gerber and Ryan Judkins presented a wonderfully entertaining and enlightening program featuring a variety of Medieval Animal Fables. 
April 23, 2009
Members of Simply Living, shared a variety of memorable and informative readings in honor of Earth Day and everyday. Simply Living: Becoming the change we seek for the world, is an organization based in Columbus, whose members and friends share a desire to live more lightly and joyfully by learning and practicing environmental awareness, sustainability, and voluntary simplicity.
April 30, 2009 
Erin McGraw, Department of English, read from The Seamstress of Hollywood Boulevard, which was named one of the best books of 2008 by The Seattle Times. Andrew Hudgins, Department of English, read from his newly released book Shut Up, You’re Fine! Poems for Very, Very Bad Children.
May 7, 2009 
Michael Mercil, Department of Art, Read the Daily News as a continuing public service of The Ohio State University Department of Art Living Culture Initiative.
May 7, 2009 ( at the Hagerty Hall Coutyard)
Inspiration of Spring:  Masttepieces of Chinese Poetry through Time- DEALL faculty and graduate students shared  their selections of poems ranging from the Book of Odes to contemporary writings.
May 14, 2009 
The Libraries Diversity Committee presented a reading in honor of Asian Pacific Heritage month featuring Gerry Greenberg. The reading was about Sohn Kee-chung, sometimes referred to as “the Korean Jesse Owens.” He was the winner of the marathon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, but was forced to run under the Japanese flag using a Japanese version of his name - Kitei Son.
May 21, 2009
In celebration of Amy Tan’s campus visit, Georgina Dodge, Assistant Vice Provost of the Office of Minority Affairs and Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Associate Professor in the Department of History and Women’s Studies, shared selections from her best selling novel Joy Luck Club.

May 28, 2009

Candace Stout and Cody Henderhan, Department of Art Education, shared readings from The Flower Teachers: Stories for a New Generation— a collection of stories of public school art teachers’ narratives of their early experiences in teaching.