Lisa Sewell is the author of Impossible Object, which won the 2014 Tenth Gate prize from The Word Works, as well as The Way Out (Alice James Books) Name Withheld (Four Way Books), and Long Corridor, which received the 2009 Keystone Chapbook award from Seven Kitchens Press. She is also co-editor, with Claudia Rankine, of American Poets in the 21st Century: The … Continue reading Art of Poetry: Lisa Sewell
Tom Williams is the author of three books of fiction: The Mimic’s Own Voice, Don’t Start Me Talkin’, and his latest, Among the Wild Mulattos and Other Tales. An associate … Continue reading Tom Williams Reading–Mary E. Rolling Reading Series
Thursday, April 21 from 7:30 pm, Foster Auditorium Public Poetry Project Reading, sponsored by Pennsylvania Center for the Book, featuring the following poets and poems: "Autumn Evening at the Window … Continue reading Public Poetry Project Reading
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Finalist and New York Times bestselling novel Serena, in addition to five other novels, including One Foot in Eden, Saints at … Continue reading Ron Rash to Kick off Rolling Reading Series
Juan Felipe Herrera, Penn State's 2016 Dickinson Lecturer, is the 21st Poet Laureate of the United States (2015-2017) and is the first Latino to hold the position. From 2012-2014, Herrera … Continue reading U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera to Read
Ruth Ellen Kocher is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Third Voice, (Tupelo Press, 2017), Ending in Planes (Noemi Press, 2014), Goodbye Lyric: The Gigans and Lovely … Continue reading Reading by Poet and Penn State Grad Ruth Ellen Kocher
Caitlin Horrocks is author of the story collection This Is Not Your City. Her work appears in The New Yorker, Best American Short Stories, PEN/O. Henry Prize Stories, The Pushcart Prize, The Paris Review, Tin House, … Continue reading Reading by Fiction Writer Caitlin Horrocks (Rolling Reading Series)
James Brasfield is the author of two poetry collections, Ledger of Crossroads and Infinite Altars, both available from LSU Press, and is translator of The Selected Poems of Oleh Lysheha. Twice … Continue reading Poet James Brasfield to Read (Rolling Reading Series)
South African poet and Penn State professor, Gabeba Baderoon, is to read her new work as part of "Out Loud" at the Bellefonte Art Museum (113 North Allegheny St., Bellefonte, … Continue reading South African Poet and Penn State Professor Gabeba Baderoon to Read at the Bellefonte Art Museum
Rachel Cantor is the author of the novels Good on Paper (Melville House 2016) and A Highly Unlikely Scenario (Melville House 2014). Two dozen of her stories have appeared in … Continue reading Fiction Writer Rachel Cantor to Read as part of Rolling Reading Series