March 29, 2007 
(due to technical problems the recording begins mid-program)
featured readings by Rick Brown, University Libraries, and some of his colleagues and contributors to his e-magazine Naked Sunfish, including avant-garde poet John Bennett who read from his own works including:
INSTRUCTION BOOK, Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006
LA M AL, Espoo, Finland/W. Hartford, CT: Blue Lion Books, 2006
BULL, Columbus: Luna Bisonte Prods, 2006
BACKWORDS, [Espoo, Finland]: Blue Lion Books,2007
Logan Elm Press director Bob Tauber read The Story of Wu-cut and Pren-ting by Sid Chafetz. Yvonne Brown joined Rick on acoustic bass guitar for a few songs to close this special program
April 5, 2007
featured readers from Yoga On High including:
Martha Marcom reading from After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield,
Linda Oshins, reading from Pulitzer Prize winner Gilead by Marilynne Robinson, and Marcia Miller reading I Am One of You Forever by Fred Chappell.
April 12, 2007
featured a reading arranged by the Library Diversity Committee of Arabic prose, poetry and song. Readers from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Culture included Hanan Kashou and Joseph Zeidan. Joining them on the program is Rafah Asadi, student assistant, Science & Engineering Library. The readings were done in Arabic.. Rafah closed the program with a beautuful song.
April 19, 2007
featured readings by Central Ohio Fiction Writers.
Toni Leland read from her thriller, Gambling With the Enemy and Marcia James read from her comic romantic suspense At Her Command
April 26, 2007
featured Maryann Walther Keisel, Center for East European and Slavic Studies, and Kenny Walther-Keisel, Columbus Alternative High School, with selected readings of British writer Douglas Adams from his non-fiction book written with Mark Carwardine, Last Chance to See. David Goodwin , Centennial High School, joined the program with a chapter from Johnny got his gun by Dalton Trumbo.
May 3, 2007
featured Karen Bell, Dean, College of the Arts, and Vickie Blaine, Dance Faculty Emeritus, with a reading adaptation of their wonderful dance theater program “Heel Talk” which examines self-image, motherhood, divorce, and work, through a focus on aging and finding just the right shoe. The second half of the program featured
Jason Gray, University Press, reading selections of poetry by Ben Howard, Alfred University Professor Emeritus.
May 10, 2007
featured a tribute to Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007). Readers included Joanna Anderson, University Libraries, Mary Klie from the Wexner Center, Mykola Bilokonsky, OIT and Jason Payne, Comparative Studies.
May 11, 2007
Featured a special marathon reading in Chinese from 10am to 4pm in the Hagerty Hall courtyard by Yi-Fan Pai and her colleagues from the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures of ten chapters from HongLou Meng (Dream of the Red Chamber), one of the most famous Chinese classical fictions of Qing Dynasty. This event was sponsored by the Institute for Chinese Studies.
May 17, 2007
Ohioana Library hosted the program featuring The Journal editors and staff reading from their all-time favorite prose and poetry ever published in The Journal. The Journal and its co-editors Kathy Fagan and Michelle Herman, recieved the Ohioana Library’s Editorial Excellence Award in 2004.
Founded by Bill Allen and edited for many years by David Citino, The Journal is in its 34th year of publication. Don Pollock, whose first published story appeared in The Journal and whose collection, Knockemstiff, is being published by Doubleday next spring, shared a selection from his upcoming book. Editors Doug Watson, Pablo Tanguay, Jen Town, Brock Kingsley, Kathy Fagan, and former associate editor Jason Gray shared a variety of wonderful readings from The Journal.
May 24, 2007
OSU Libraries ReadAloud program is pleased to be a participant in Listening to The Land…A Year Long Reading of Aldo Leopold’s A Sand Country Almanac. Thursday May 24th from 3-4 pm we hosted a reading of the remarkable essays “Odyssey” and “Clandeboye” by Rick Perkins of the National Park Service and Christina Wieg from the Ohio EPA.The program was held at one of the hidden treasures of OSU: the Olentangy River Wetlands Research Park.
May 31, 2007
featured The Medieval Reading Group with a reading of some of Marie de France’s Lais. Readers included Christine Moreno, Mike Bierschenk, Department of English, and Henry Griffey, University Libararies, and Lisa Kiser, Dept. of English.
