May 15, 2008
Rick Brown, editor of Naked Sunfish and fellow contributors to the popular e magazine including avant-garde poet Dr. John Bennett, and Marilou Suszko, featured author at this year’s Ohioana Book Festival, will share spontaneous and sporadic highlights from their own work.
Rick and Yvonne Brown will close the program with
a few musical selections.

May 22, 2008
features Dr. Cynthia Dillard, from the College of Education and Human Ecology and author of On Spiritual Strivings: Transforming an African American Woman’s Academic Life

May 1, 2008
Library Security students Kristen Depp, Calvin McCammon, Jason Patch and Steve Paul shared a variety of readings.

April 24, 2008
Sharon Oliver reads from the work of poet David Krohn, sharing reflections from his cabin in the woods of Maine. Joe Shaw, Office of Research, shared some of his short stories, including “The Move”.

April 17, 2008

Ignacio Corona, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, read Ray Bradbury’s short story “Calling Mexico“. Ted Riedinger, University Libraries, read “Once Upon a Time in Ipanema” from Traveler’s Tales: Brazil.

April 10, 2008
Featured a program of Russian and Georgian poetry presented by Center for Slavic & East European Studies colleagues Irma Murvanishvili, Maryann Walther-Keisel and Justin Cade.

April 3, 2008
Donna Distel, Outreach & Engagement, read a variety of seasonal selections from Baseball: A Literary Anthology. Sy Kleinman, Faculty Emeritus, shared the George Meyer essay “My Undoing” which was published in the New Yorker in May 2007.

March 6, 2008
ReadAloud, Reading Recovery, & Read Across America: Celebrating our ability to learn to read for enjoyment. Dan Noonan,University Archives, was joined by students Ben Noonan, Kevin Schlichting, Liam Martin, Sarah Bellish, Ali Jank, and Cordelia Noonan, from Evening Street Elementary School and their Reading Recovery teacher, Kellie Ehlers in reading from their favorite works and some Dr. Seuss to boot. Dan and Kellie discussed instilling the desire to read for pleasure instead of because we have to. Everyone received a copy of the “Reader’s Bill of Rights”.

February 28, 2008
Ruthmarie Mitsch, Department of African American and African Studies, and Brenda Goodwin, University Libraries, presented a program celebrating African literature from Sundiata to el Saadawi, and also shared the music and lyrics of some modern griots.

February 21, 2008
Larry Hurtubise, Karen Richards, and Marguerite Weibel from the Prior Health Sciences Library and Center for Knowledge Management shared readings from Walt Whitman, William Carlos Williams, and others reflecting on the intersection of medicine and literature.

February 14, 2008
Ohioana Library presented a program in honor of Valentine’s Day featuring nationally recognized Central Ohio Romance Writers Rosemary Laurey and Donna MacMeans and Janet Lynnford.
Donna read from her recently released The Education of Mrs. Brimley. Rosemary read “Fly with a Dragon” from her soon to be released Sacrifice. Janet, know on the OSU campus as Janet Ciccone the Director of Strategic Communications & Marketing with the College of Education and Human Ecology, read from two of her historical romances set in 16th century England and Scotland.

February 7, 2008
James Petsche, Wexner Center, shared a reading from Elizabeth Spencer’s Southern Woman: new and selected fiction.
Leta Hendricks, Fine Arts Library, shared readings from Benjamin Banneker, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and other African-American astronomers, astrophysicists, and astronauts.

January 31, 2008
Marcia Farr, College of Education and Human Ecology, read from her book Rancheros in Chicagoacán : language and identity in a transnational community.
Kevin Boyle, Department of History, author of the award winning book Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age, shared a selection from his new work in progress, tentatively titled The Splendid Dead.

January 24, 2008
Ric Radar, Greek and Latin, read “The Teacher” by George Ioannou. Henry Griffy, University Libraries, read selections from
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole.

January 17, 2008
Rev. Susan Ritchie, North Unitarian Universalist Congregation, read from her essay “Trickster Hope”. Jason Payne, Comparative Studies, read from Anthony Bourdain’s A Cook’s Tour: in search of the perfect meal.

January 10, 2008
University Libraries Security students, who provide set up for each week’s event, shared a variety of selections. Calvin McCammon read from The Heroes Among Us by his grandfather Joe L. McCammon. Steve Paul read from Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood. Kristen Depp read Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris and Heather Glasgo completed the program with More Spaghetti I Say! by Rita Golden Gelman.

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 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 1, 2007
Featured OSU Libraries authors LaTina Moss and Cheryl Lowry. Latina read the essay “Phenomenal Being” as well as exerpts from her play “gRave Reviews”. Cheryl read selections from her second novel Trunk Show.

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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 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 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 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 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.

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.

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 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 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.

March 29, 2007
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

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.”

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.

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.

February 15, 2007
Ohioana Library presented readings in celebration of Valentines Day by romance authors 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 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 1, 2007
features
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.

January 25, 2007
featured readers from the College of Biological Sciences,
Andrea Ward-Ross 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.

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

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

November 16, 2006
Christopher Andersen, Office of University Outreach and Engagement, read selections from
A Long Way From Chicago by Richard Peck
and
Joe Shaw, University Libraries, read “The No-Talent Kid” from Bagombo Snuff Box by Kurt Vonnegut

November 9th, 2006

Featured Ohioana readers celebrating the work of Ohio writers
including:
Janet Hickman: the author of seven novels for young people. For her book, Jericho, she received a 1995 Ohioana Book Award. Jericho was also a Boston Globe/Horn Book Honor Book. Janet recently retired from the Ohio State University were she was an Associate Professor in the College of Education.
Janet read from Columbus native Stephanie Tolan’s Newbery Awarding book, Surviving the Applewhites. Stephanie is also a playwright and she assisted with the adaptation of the book for a new play, which premiered on October 26, 2006 at the Columbus Children’s Theatre.

Jerry Roscoe: is a salesman and a poet. In 2002, the book, Two Midwest Voices received the Ohioana Book Award in the category of Poetry. One of the voices was Jerry Roscoe and he read from his half of the book which is titled Mirror Lake, as well as selected poems from his soon to be published work S-E-X.

Terri Paul read from Glass Hearts which received the 2000 Ohioana Book Award in fiction. Her book is based on the memories of Ms. Paul’s aunt Sarah and family members who lived in a small Hungarian village before World War I and then their eventual exodus to America to make their home in Ohio.

November 2, 2006
featured readers from Yoga On High including:
Marcia Miller reading a selection from Jaber Crow by Wendell Berry.

Martha Marcom reading After the Ecstasy, the Laundry: How the Heart Grows
Wise on the Spiritual Path by Jack Kornfield, from the chapter entitled, “This Very Body, the Buddha”.
Linda Oshins reading from Patrick Lane’s What the Stones Remember
and

October 26, 2006
featured Dona Straley, University Libraries Coordinator for Collections reading
Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery by Deborah and James Howe.

October 19, 2006
featured Scott Savage, Head of Reference and Library Instruction at OSU Mansfield Library, reading excerpts from Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

October 12, 2006 3-4pm
featured a reading at the Wexner Center Cafe of the essay “The Bean-Field” from Henry David Thoreau’s Walden
in celebration of the harvest from artist Michael Mercil’s
Beanfield installation along College Rd.

October 5, 2006
featured readers:
Dean Joan Herbers, College of Biological Sciences reading from Leo Tolstoy’s War and Peace
and
Dean Richard Freeman, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences reading from Richard Russo’s Straight Man.

September 28, 2006
featured readers
Nancy Courtney, University Libraries, reading from Daughters and Rebels by Jessica Mitford
and
Joe Shaw, University Libraries, reading “The Replacements” from the book To Own a Dragon by Donald Miller

September 21, 2006
featured:
Joanna Anderson and Andrea Cooper from the University Libraries
Development and Communications Offices reading selections from A House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros and selected poems of Charles Bukowski.

Special Summer ReadAlouds: Leer en Voz Alta
This Summer quarterReadAloud dedicated our programming to the Hispanic Community of Ohio with a series of 3 programs conducted entirely in Spanish. The reading series took place Thursdays in the Thompson Main Library Sills Hall from 3-4pm on 6/29, 7/6 and 7/13.

July 13, 2006
featured:
3-3:30 pm
Prof. Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar
Poesia de/Poetry of Cesar Vallejo (Peru/France/Spain)
3:30-4 pm
Antonio Pedrós-Gascón, PhD Cand.
Tic-Tac por/by Suso de Toro (Spain/Galicia)

July 6, 2006
Leer en Voz Alta

featured:

Prof. Lúcia Costigan
Poesia Satírica/Satirical Poetry (Peru)

June 29, 2006

Leer en Voz Alta
29 de junio
featured:

3-3:30 pm
Prof. Ignacio Corona, leyendo/reading
Pedro Páramo por/by Juan Rulfo (Mexico)

3:30-4 pm
Dr. Hiram Irizarry-Osorio, leyendo/reading
País de Cuatro Pisos por José Luis Gonzales (Puerto Rico)

June 1, 2006
Readings from the current exhibit Upon the Shoulders of Giants: The History of Western Scientific Inquiry selected by Timothy Dickey, Ron Ravneberg and Bill Rich. Readings included selections from Galileo’s Dialogo to Bronowski’s Ascent of Man.

May 25, 2006
Theatre Research Institute presented a special program from The Jerome Lawrence & Robert E. Lee Theatre Research Institute featuring a 1949 episode from the radio series “Young Love” read by Beth Kattelman, Orville Martin, Brittany Nau, Doreen Salkiewicz, Joey Thomas, Barbara Yost.

May 18, 2006
Edward A. Riedinger, University Libraries, read a selection of poems by Constantinos Cavafy.
Gregor Hens, Germanic Languages, read selections from Thomas Mann’s early novella “Little Herr Friedemann” (1896).

May 11, 2006
Ohio House of Representative member Joyce Beatty State Senators Ray Miller and Steve Stivers, read from the work of Ohio writers on behalf of the Ohioana Library.
Representative Beatty read some excerpts from Paul Lawrence Dunbar from of her personal collection of poety, as well as some selections of her own poetry.
Senator Stivers read from A fragile capital : identity and the early years of Columbus by Charles Chester Cole.
Senator Miller read a selection from King of the cats : the life and times of Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. written by his friend Wil Haygood.

May 4, 2006
Catherine Shaw, University Libraries , read Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach
Nancy Courtney, University Libraries, read a selection from Helene Hanff’s book Underfoot in Show Business.

April 27, 2006
Rebecca Haidt, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, read poetry by Federico Garcia Lorca in Spanish with accompanying translation.
Mike Valinis, University Libraries, read from some favorite American poets including William Stafford, Walt Whitman, Ezra Pound, Conrad Aiken, Robinson Jeffers and others.

April 20, 2006
Tom Minnick, Office of Minority Affairs, read a selection of poems about Spring, some even focused on April, by a wide variety of poets—Chaucer, Hopkins, cummings, Stevens, and others.

Richard Green, Department of English, read from the works of William McGonagall. It has been said of McGonagall, that he was “so giftedly bad he backed unwittingly into genius.”

April 13, 2006
Pat Peterson, University Libraries, read selections from Marge Piercy and other poets in honor of national Poetry month.
Dona Straley, University Libraries, read a short story by Connie Willis, “Even the Queen“.

April 6, 2006
Susan Metros, CIO Administration, read from her father
William Yenofsky’s published and unpublished World War II recollections. http://history.osu.edu/projects/wwii

March 30, 2006
Joe Shaw University Libraries, read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown.

Patrick Visel,University Libraries, read from ‘The Midnight Court’ by Brian Merryman..

March 9, 2006
Joanna Anderson - University Libraries, read from: The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard Keun “An Illuminating look at the much-mythologized social and sexual mores of Weimar Germany.”– Publishers Weekly
Andrea Cooper - University Libraries read from Flaming Iguanas: an illustrated all-girl road novel by Erika Lopez.

March 2, 2006
Ted Riedinger -University Libraries, read “Once Upon a Time in Ipanema”- from Travelers’ Tales Brazil, true stories of life on the road.
Linda Schoen, Arts & Sciences Administration, read from Sue Monk Kidd’s “When the Heart Waits“.

February 23, 2006
Georgina Dodge, Office of Academic Affairs, read”My Man Bovanne,” by Toni Cade Bambara, a short story from her collection Gorilla, My Love (1972).
Debora Knowles, Office of Development, read selections from Langston Hughes, Michael Wynn, Maya Angelo and Robera Fosten.
Leta Hendricks, University Libraries, readBlues Lyrics by Bessie Smith and Robert Johnson
Cynthia Tyson, College of Education, read from Christopher Paul Curtis’ The Watsons Go to Birmingham. (1963).

2/16/2006
OSU Libraries hosted a special program in the Thompson Main Library Sills Lounge on February 16th from 3-4pm.

The Department of English Medieval Reading Group did a reading performance of Chaucer’s “Parliament of Fowls”
the first Valentine’s Day poem in English.

The reading cast featured Richard Firth Green, Lisa Kiser, Ethan Knapp, Karen Winstead, Christopher Jones, Mike Van Dussen, Ryan Judkins, Kerilyn Harkaway, Henry Griffy, Elizabeth Zimmerman, Dawn Simmons Walts, Sarah Newhouse, and Jennifer Gianfalla.

2/9/2006

Bill Tyler, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
read the short story “Shoes Fit For a Poet” by Osaki Midori.

Naomi Fukumori, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures
read selections from: “The Pillow Book” of Sei Shônagon.

2/2/2006
Deb Ballam
Director of the Women’s Place and Associate Provost
read selections from “Crones Don’t Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women” by Jean Shinoda Bolen.

and
Marty Jamison
Head, Science and Engineering Library
read “Total Eclipse” by Annie Dillard.

1/26/2006

Laura Herbert, University Libraries read “Pink and Say” by Patricia Polacco.
Catherine Shaw, University Libraries read The Amazing Bone” by William Steig.
Alexandra Schulltz, Stony Brook College read from “Anne of Green Gables”.

1/19/2006
Mark Boarman, University Libraries read from an essay by Robert D. Kaplan, “Was Democracy Just a Moment?”

Michael Grimes, University Libraries read a short story by Vladimir Nabokov, “Signs and Symbols”.

01/12/2006

A Tribute to David Citino
Morris Beja, Kathy Fagan, Steven Fink and Stuart Lishan
Department of English
read various selections of David Citino’s writings, and selections from David’s favorite poets.

01/05/2006
Linda Mizejewski, Department of Women’s Studies: “Women and Cars: A Love Story”, a selection of poems and prose.

Mark Rankin, Department of English: a read Hugh Latimer’s “Sermon on the Ploughers,” a popular and memorable oration from the most important preacher of the English Reformation.

12/01/2005
Steve Acker, School of Communication, read selections from Robert Grudin, Jeremy Rifkin, and Daniel Pink.
John Bennett, University Libraries read selections from his own writings.

11/17/05
Bill Rich, Department of Mechanical Engineering read selections of poetry including Keats, Yeats, Tennyson and others.
Rebecca Haidt, Department of Spanish & Portuguese read favorite stories about animals from Aesop’s fables and Arnold Lobel’s “Mouse Tales” and “The Frog and Toad Collection.”

11/10/05
Gerry Greenberg, University Libraries read selections from Woody Allen’s writings.
R. Brian Stone, Dept. of Design read from “Graphic Design Sources” by Ken Hiebert and “Inside/outside” by Malcolm Grear.

11/03/05
Joan Herbers, Biological Sciences, read a selection from ‘The Finer Points of Sausage Dogs” by Alexander McCall Smith.
E. J Berman , Biological Sciences, read from “Introductory Lecture” by A. E. Housman.

10/27/05
Bill Tyler, Associate Professor, Japanese Language & Literature, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures read a short story which he translated from Japanese called “The Lemon” by Kajii. Motojiro.
Fred Roecker, University Libraries, read selections of poetry: ‘To Satch’ by Samuel Allen, ‘The Lesson of the Moth’ (archy and Mehitabel) by Don Marquis and ‘Ulysses’ by Alfred Lord Tennyson.

10/20/05
Dona Straley, University Libraries, read “Bunnicula: A Rabbit Tale of Mystery” by Deborah and James Howe.

10/13/05
The Medieval Reading Group featured Lisa Kiser and Leslie Lockett, Department of English reading from Old and Middle English including
“Sir Orfeo” and selections from “Beowulf“.

10/6/05
Selections from First Year Experience Buckeye Book Community books “Fast Food Nation“, “Cheating Culture” and “Rocket Boys” were read by Jaime Foster and Kathryn Jakes, College of Human Ecology and Jim Bracken, University Libraries.

9/29/05
Tina Butler, Ohioana Board President read from Michael Dirda’s “An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland“. Also from Ohioana Bob Webner read
from Diane Gilliam Fisher’s “Kettle Bottom” and exerpts from Ian Frazier’s “Lamentation of the Father”.
Ohioana trustee Jane C. Campbell read from the first book in the Nancy Drew series “Secret of the Old Clock” by Mildred Wirt Benson.

9/22/05
Featured readers Christopher Purdy of WOSU and Joe Branin, Dean of Libraries.