OSU Libraries ReadAloud - 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.

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.

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.

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 and Engineering Library. The readings were done in Arabic. Rafah closed the program with a beautuful song.

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.

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

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."

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.

Readings from February 22th, 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.

Readings from February 15th, 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.