Everyone is invited to join us for a reading and workshop with Jen Ashburn is the author of The Light on the Wall (Main Street Rag, 2016) and has work published in numerous venues, including the podcast The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. Her poem "Our Mother Drove Barefoot" was selected for the 2018 Public Poetry Project by the Pennsylvania Center for the Book and distributed on posters across the state. She holds an MFA from Chatham University, where she taught creative writing to women in the Allegheny County Jail through Chatham's Words Without Walls program. She's currently working on her second full-length poetry collection, tentatively titled Our Own Thin Ways, and a memoir.

Here are some links to published work:

https://www.thefourthriver.com/issue/2018/10/22/mountain-split-fern-hollow-creek-falls-ravine-trail

https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=our+mother+drove+barefoot+jen+ashburn&&view=detail&mid=E5DD4ADBD98DDB1AB0E4E5DD4ADBD98DDB1AB0E4&&FORM=VRDGAR

https://www.writersalmanac.org/index.html%3Fp=9586.html

Jason Irwin is the author of A Blister of Stars (Low Ghost, 2016), Watering the Dead (Pavement Saw Press, 2008), winner of the Transcontinental Poetry Award, and the chapbooks Where You Are (Night Ballet Press, 2014), and Some Days It's A Love Story (Slipstream Press, 2005). He grew up in Dunkirk, NY, and now lives in Pittsburgh.

http://jasonirwin.blogspot.com/

BIO for Scott W. Williams

SUNY University at Buffalo Professor Emeritus Dr. Scott W. Williams is a poet and author of short stories. He has been featured in New York, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario and Virgin Islands. His poems appeared in "Sunday Review", "Coffeehouse Writings From the Web", "Juniper", "Peach Mag", "Ground & Sky", "Scryptic Magazine", "Le Mot Juste", "Punch Drunk Press", "Journal of Humanistic Mathematics."  The most recent of his six books are "Bonvibre Haiku" (CWP Press-2017) and a book of micro-fiction "Natural Shrinkage" (Destitute Press-2018). Scott edits the syfy poetry&flash-fiction anthology series, "A Flash of Dark" (Writers Den-2018) and "A Flash of Dark vol 2" (Writers Den-2018). Williams hosts workshops of the poetic forms Ghazal and Haiku and co-hosts the series Second Stage Writers (with Dr. Max Stephen in Buffalo, NY) and Poets Soup (with Victoria Hunter in Canandaigua, NY).

Location: T123

Featured Guests:
Trace George, VSP Graphics
Kim Argenta, owner and artist, Art Ah La Carte

Contact: Ana Olmeda (aolmeda@genesee.edu)

Location: Student Success Center Lobby

The winners of the 18th annual Student Poetry Contest have been chosen!  Please join us at 1pm in the library to congratulate our winning poets and hear them read their poems. Refreshments will be served!

Location: Library

Featured Guests:
Luke Humphrey, Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation
Todd L. Tryon, Retired Assistant Field Office Director, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)

Location: Student Success Center Lobby

Shawn, age 5, hates naps. During one particularly wakeful naptime Shawn finds out that her lamp wants to become the moon.  Join a trip through the imagination of a not-very-sleepy young girl.  

Ticket Pricing:

$8.00 General admission

$6.00 GCC Alumni

Location: Stuart Steiner Theatre

Shawn, age 5, hates naps. During one particularly wakeful naptime Shawn finds out that her lamp wants to become the moon.  Join a trip through the imagination of a not-very-sleepy young girl.  

Location: Stuart Steiner Theatre