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On Nov. 12, the day after Veterans Day, Ohio University hosts a free panel discussion and poetry workshop on Hidden Poetry: How does poetry help people who carry the hidden wounds of war and trauma? This innovative event provides extraordinary examples of people who have used poetry to deal with […]

The Dogwood Bloom Reading Series continues Friday evening with readings by two English graduate students—Micah McCrary and Michelle Pretorius. The event, which is free and open to the public, will start at 7 p.m. in Galbreath Chapel. McCrary is a doctoral student in English and holds an MFA in Nonfiction […]

The Ohio University Creative Writing program announces its three Writers in Residence for 2015-16, leading off with William Olsen on Thursday, Oct. 8, at 7:30 p.m. in Walter Hall Rotunda. Olsen has published five books of poetry, including Sand Theory (Northwestern, 2011). His awards include fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National […]

The Food Studies theme Book Club holds its first meeting on Fall 2015 on Thursday, Sept. 10, from 5-6 p.m. in Alden 301U in the third-floor Faculty Commons. The club is reading Fresh: A Perishable History by Susanne Freidberg. (Belknap Harvard, 416pp. ISBN 9780674032910) The book discussion will be divided […]

Three renowned local writers read from their work at Writers Harvest, a benefit reading hosted by Ohio University’s Creative Writing program, on Tuesday, Sept. 15, at 7:30 p.m. in the Walter Hall Rotunda, with a reception following in the lobby outside the theater. The benefit is part of Writers Harvest, […]

The 19th annual Spring Spanish and Latin American Colloquium is April 9-10 at Ohio University. The theme is “Choques y Avances: Clashes and Breakthroughs.” A Creative Writing Workshop with Carlos Vázquez Cruz of NYU’s Creative Writing Program is Thursday, April 9, from 3-6 p.m. in Gordy 211. Panel Presentations Panel […]

The new Transcultural Encounters and Border Crossings Film Series presents Palestinian filmmaker Abu-Assad’s Paradise Now (2005) on Saturday, April 11, at 3 p.m. at the Athena Cinema. Admission is free. Paradise Now follows two Palestinian childhood friends who have been recruited for a strike on Tel Aviv and focuses on their […]