Ohio University's Creative Writing Program will host readings by four prominent writers at its Writer's Harvest at 7 tonight in the Walter Hall Rotunda.
The annual reading raises money for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Southeastern Ohio.
This year marks OU's 11th Writer's Harvest. The four writers will read works from a variety of genres, said Lydia McDermott, graduate assistant in special programs of creative writing.
One of the goals of this year's Writer's Harvest centered around providing more writers from outside of OU, unlike the writers featured in the past, McDermott said.
Dinty W. Moore, a new OU faculty member and nonfiction author, will read selections from his latest memoir, Between Panic & Desire, which describes his experiences growing up in a postmodern world.
[It's about] the panic and desire that's led me to make some mistakes but also responsible of things that have worked out, Moore said.
Moore
who taught 16 years at Pennsylvania State University has written other published books essays and stories in a number of newspapers magazines and journals throughout the country including The New York Times
The Plain Dealer and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Another featured writer
local poet
Wendy McVicker
will read some of her work
including her latest poem
Father Tongue, which honors her father for passing down his love of stories and language to her.
We always talk about 'mother tongue,' but my dad is the one who installed language (in me), McVicker said.
Two OU alumnae will also be reading their work: poet and author Carrie Oeding
who has a PhD in creative writing from OU
and Penny Lauer
