The Mary Rolling Reading Series presents ELIZABETH BENEDICT Best-selling Author and National Book Award Finalist Elizabeth Benedict is the author of five novels and editor of several anthologies, including the … Continue reading Elizabeth Benedict Reading
Steven Sherrill is associate professor of English and integrative arts, Penn State Altoona, and author of Joy, PA: A Novel. Surround yourself in visual and verbal imagery at the museum … Continue reading Steven Sherrill Reading–The Art of Poetry
Stuart Kestenbaum is the author of four collections of poems: Pilgrimage (Coyote Love Press), House of Thanksgiving (Deerbrook Editions), Prayers and Run-on Sentences (Deerbrook Editions), and Only Now (Deerbrook Editions). He has also written The View from Here (Brynmorgen Press), a book of brief essays on craft and community. Kestenbaum has written and spoken widely … Continue reading Poet Stuart Kestenbaum, longtime director of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
Mariko Tamaki to accept the 2015 Lynd Ward Graphic Novel Prize for This One Summer. Mariko and her cousin, artist Jillian Tamaki, also won a Printz Honor (for outstanding young adult literature) and a Caldecott Honor (for exceptional picture book art) for this book. A book sale and signing will follow.
POETRY Night Live, Words@Webster's, featuring Julia Kasdorf and Open Mic! NOTE: This new series replaces the previous First Wednesday Poetry Series here at Webster's.
Vijay Seshadri is the author of three collections of poetry, including 3 Sections, which was awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. The Pulitzer Prize committee praised 3 Sections as: “a compelling collection of poems that examine human consciousness, from birth to dementia, in a voice that is by turns witty and grave, compassionate and remorseless.” His … Continue reading Vijay Seshadri Reading–Mary E. Rolling Reading Series
Camille-Yvette Welsch, senior lecturer in English, is book reviews editor for Literary Mama and author of the chapbook Sleep. Surround yourself in visual and verbal imagery at the museum during The Art of Poetry. Poets and storytellers from the Penn State community read their latest work in a feast for the eyes and ears.
An artist, translator, and teacher, Scappettone was born and raised in New York. The recipient of a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, in 2005, she has lived in Italy, Virginia, California, and Chicago. Her collections of poetry are the chapbooks Err-Residence (2007), Beauty (Is the New Absurdity) (2007), and Thing Ode / Ode … Continue reading Poetry Reading by Jennifer Scappetone–CANCELLED
Merrill Gilfillan is the award-winning author of two short story collections, many books of poems, and five essay collections. Much of his work addresses the shifting layers of the American … Continue reading Merrill Gilfillan Reading–Mary E. Rolling Reading Series
Since graduating from Penn State's MFA program in Spring 2013, Julie Swarstad Johnson embarked upon a career path in arts administration in Tucson, Arizona, a culturally rich city in the southwestern borderlands. Her path has included coordinating education programs for the Tucson Symphony Orchestra--the oldest continuously running performing arts organization in the southwest--and working for … Continue reading Poet Julie Swarstad Johnson Reading