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Writers Harvest, an annual event presented by the Ohio University Creative Writing program, hosts three local writers for an evening of literary nourishment on Thursday, Oct. 11, 2018, at 7:30 p.m. in the Baker Center Theater. The event—part of a nation-wide reading series—benefits hunger relief efforts in the region, with all […]

Alumni and friends are invited for an insiders’ look at the newly renovated Ellis Hall during Homecoming weekend, on Saturday, Oct. 20, after the parade. RSVP for the Friends of Ellis Tour. Stop by the front entrance to Ellis on University Terrace for a guided tour of new student study […]

The English Department presents Visiting Poet Natalie Diaz on Thursday, Sept. 20, at 730 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. Follow Diaz on Twitter. A short review of Diaz’s first book is excerpted below: When My Brother Was an Aztec by Natalie Diaz An Appreciation, by Seth Foerstner In her […]

The English Department presents visiting fiction writer Thisbe Nissen on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 730 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda. Madison Foltz‘s essay, “Crisis, Love, and Chaos in Thisbe Nissen’s Our Lady of the Prairie,” provides more information about Nissen’s work: “So much of this life we spend holding […]

The English Department’s 2019 Spring Literary Fest is April 3-5. The authors, who will give readings and craft-based lectures, include the following novelists, poets, and essayists: Stephanie Powell Watts, Kiese Laymon, Mark Doty, Claire Vaye Watkins, and Laura Kasischke, Wednesday, April 3rd Walter Hall Rotunda 7:30p Stepahanie Powell Watts Reading […]

The season’s final installment of a new reading series, Spoken & Heard: Poetry of Departure and Relevance, is June 14 at The Dairy Barn Arts Center in Athens. Thursday’s reading features Pauletta Hansel and Roy Bentley; the opening is local poet Kari Gunter-Seymour. Hansel is a “poet, memoirist, teacher, and […]

Little Professor bookstore is hosting Ohio University alum and English instructor Dr. David Wanczyk, where he will sign copies of his book, Beep: Inside the Unseen World of Baseball for the Blind. The event takes place on Wednesday, April 4, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Readers and reviewers are praising […]