2011 Writer’s Harvest
Three renowned local writers will read from their work at a benefit reading hosted by Ohio University’s Program in Creative Writing, at 7:30pm, Tuesday, Oct. 11th in the Baker Center Theater, with a reception following in the alcove outside the theater. The benefit is part of Writer's Harvest, the nation’s largest reading series working to help fight hunger.
Mark Halliday teaches at Ohio University. His books of poems are: Little Star (William Morrow, 1987), Tasker Street (University of Massachusetts, 1992), Selfwolf (University of Chicago, 1999), Jab (University of Chicago, 2002), and Keep This Forever (Tupelo Press, 2008). His critical study Stevens and the Interpersonal appeared in 1991 from Princeton University Press. He co-authored with Allen Grossman a book on poetics, The Sighted Singer (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991).
Zakes Mda is a professor of creative writing in the English Department, Ohio University. His latest book is Sometimes there is a Void: Memoirs of an Outsider published by Penguin Books in South Africa in May 2011, to be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in the USA in February 2012. He is also the author of Cion, the Ohio University Common Reader book for 2008-2010
Rachael Peckham won the 2010 Robert Watson Poetry Award at Spring Garden Press for her chapbook of prose poems, Muck Fire, due out this fall. Her poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals, including Brevity, Diagram, Gulf Coast, Sentence, South Loop Review, Under the Sun, and several others. A 2009 graduate of Ohio University's Nonfiction program, she is currently an assistant professor at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia, where she teaches Creative Writing and American Literature.
UPDATE: Last year's Writers Harvest raised $1111 for the local food bank and our goal this year is $1500.
All proceeds from the $5 admission donation will go to the Southeastern Ohio Food Bank’s Second Harvest, a food distribution program serving Athens, Hocking, Perry, Lawrence, Vinton, Jackson, Gallia, Meigs, Morgan and Washington counties. Donations will be accepted in various locations throughout the week.
Please direct questions about the event to the Special Programs Office, Lindley 242, 707-3191.
Questions concerning larger donations to the Second Harvest Foodbank can be answered at the following numbers: 800-385-6813 or 740-385-6813.