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.
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.
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 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.
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 “Rave Reviews”. Cheryl read selections from her second novel Trunk Show.
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 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 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.
