Writers Read Archives

Final Writers Read event hosts poet David Clark, winner of the Miller Williams Poetry Prize

March 16, 2015Last updated March 20, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Poet David Clark brings what one fellow poet has called “a postmodern sense of the sacred” to the Eastern Mennonite University campus during the final installment of the Writers Read Program.

Novelist and short fiction writer Vic Sizemore comes to campus for Writers Read, Mar. 12

March 6, 2015Last updated March 13, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Novelist and short story writer Vic Sizemore creates characters who grapple with issues of faith, engage in deep soul-searching journeys, and try to reconcile the rock-solid tenets learned in childhood

Author of The Dumbest Generation tells young people to stash their digital tools, discover quiet time

February 11, 2015Last updated March 2, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Digital tools in the hands of the young “generally serve an anti-intellectual purpose,” Mark Bauerlein told the crowd in a packed lecture room during last week’s Writers Read event at

Upcoming Writers Read author and English professor Mark Bauerlein to speak on humanities in the digital age

January 29, 2015Last updated February 6, 2015 by Lauren Jefferson

Take a minute and read this book title: The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes our Future (or Don’t Trust Anyone under 30). Chances are those words

Local writer and environmental activist shares love of Appalachian forests

October 31, 2014Last updated November 7, 2014 by Lauren Jefferson

Chris Bolgiano is a self-described “mildly amusing nature writer” and a retired special collections librarian who resides in Fulks Run, Virginia. These authentic identities – citizen scientist, wide-ranging chronicler, and

Acclaimed poet inspires dialogue about race, belonging, in the U.S. today

October 2, 2014Last updated October 9, 2014 by Liesl Graber, first-year student

Reprinted with slight edits from the student-produced Weather Vane, Oct. 2, 2014. Written by first-year student Liesl Graber. Lyrical words filled Lehman Auditorium last Wednesday evening, capturing the attention of

Award-winning poet opens 2014-15 Writers Read series with performance of the new black poems and others

September 11, 2014Last updated September 23, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

Evie Shockley, an award-winning poet who embraces both free-verse and traditional styles of writing, will open up the 2014-15 Writers Read series on Wednesday, September 24, at 8 p.m. in Eastern Mennonite

Writers Read features compelling novelist who taps her Pakistani and Dutch background

March 10, 2014Last updated March 14, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

Sorayya Khan – a Pakistani-Dutch-American writer who combines cross-cultural sensibilities with lyrical, haunting prose on war and its impact on humanity – is the last Writers Read guest of the

Award-winning, blueberry-growing essayist, poet, feaured at Writers Read event on Monday, Feb. 10

February 5, 2014Last updated February 11, 2014 by Mike Zucconi

Jim Minick, author of the award-winning The Blueberry Years, A Memoir of Farm and Family, will be at EMU on Monday, Feb. 10, for two events, culminating in the first

EMU alum next featured Writers Read author

October 29, 2013Last updated November 15, 2013 by Mike Zucconi

Jessica Penner, a 2001 Eastern Mennonite University (EMU) alumna, will be the next featured “Writers Read Author,” on Thursday, Nov. 14, at 6:30 p.m., in EMU’s Common Grounds Coffeehouse in