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ReadAloud invites the community to join us for our fall program in the Thompson Library. Please stop by and enjoy faculty, staff, students and community members reading from their favorite works.
October 6, Thursday, 3-4 pm, Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)
Poet Andrew Hudgins and Rick Livingston of the Humanities Institute presented a tree themed ReadAloud entitled, “For the Trees,” in support of Arb oblitz. Chadwick Arboretum is sponsoring the week-long OSU Arboblitz as part of the initiative to become a 
“Tree Campus USA.” Rick Livingston read from two books, Trees Be Company: An Anthology of Poetry(Trees, Rivers and Fields) edited by Angela King and Susan Clifford and I have my own song for it (Akron Series in Poetry) by Elton Glaser. Andrew Hudgins read from his own book, American Rendering: new and selected poems.October 13, Thursday, 3-4 pm, Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)
Raimund E. Goerler, a recently retired Libraries’ Assistant Director for Special Collections and OSU Archivist, read from his own book, The Ohio State University: An Illustrated History. It is the first one-volume history of the university to appear in more than 50 years and includes critical events in OSU’s history, vignettes of prominent alumni, and stories of well-known campus buildings, historic sites, presidents, student life, traditions, and athletics. His book is a must –have for all who call themselves Buckeyes.October 20, Thursday, 3-4 pm, Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompon Library Room 202)
Erin Reilly-Sanders, a PhD graduate assistant teaching Children’s Literature in the 
School of Teaching and Learning, read along the themes of Chills and Thrills as we approach All Hallows’ Eve. Erin read The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman, The Underneath by Kathi Appelt, Spooky ABC written by Eve Merriam, illustrated by Lane Smith and “A Silence of Three Parts (Prologue)” from The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss.
October 27, Thursday, 3-4 pm, Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)
Jasmine Anderson, from the Office of Financial Services, transformed herself
into a pirate and take us back in time to swashbuckling high sea adventures. She read from The Ballad of the Pirate Queens by Jane Yolen,1995, and Castaways of the Flying Dutchman by Brian Jacques, 2001. The Ballad of the Pirate Queens tells the adventures of Anne Bonn
ey and Mary Reade, two of history’s most infamous pirates, who dressed as men and sailed with Captain Calico Jack Rackham. Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is about a boy and his dog who are rescued from the Flying Dutchman in 1620 by an angel who guides them in traveling the world eternally helping those in great need.
November 3, Thursday, 3-4 pm, Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)
Dr. Dick Davis, Department Chair of Near Eastern Languages & Culture, read from his own books of poems, including his Persian translations of Borrowed Ware: Medieval Persian Epigrams, Belonging, A trick of sunlight, At home and far from home, Vis and Ramin (a romance, and the probable source of the Tristan and Isolde story), and from a book of translations entitled Three Poets of Shiraz. The three are Hafez, the best known lyric poet of Iran, Jahan Khatun, the only woman poet of medieval Iran whose complete works have come down to us – she’s a great poet and virtually unknown, and Obayd–e Zakani. They all lived in the same city during the 14th century city.
November 10, Thursday,3-4 pm, Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)
Dr. Dong-Wook Seo of Sogang University in South Korea read 
excerpts from his own book of poems, The First Love in Space War (Minumsa Publisher, 2009). Poems were presented in Korean by the author and then his own English versions will be read by Yuri Doolan, a graduating senior majoring in Korean. Dr. Dong-Wook is a Writer-in-Residence supported by the Korean Literature Translation Institute.
November 17, Thursday, 3-4 pm, Mortar Board Centennial Suite (Thompson Library Room 202)
Brian Leaf and Juleah Swanson, Mary P. Key Diversity Resident Librarians, read an original intertextual dialogue comprised of excerpts from Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America and a variety of social media sources.
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