Central alumna to read at Writers Reading
As a part of the Geisler Library Writers Reading series, Sara Perez will read from her collection of creative nonfiction and lyric essays on Jan. 24 in the Geisler Library reading room.
As a part of the Geisler Library Writers Reading series, Sara Perez will read from her collection of creative nonfiction and lyric essays on Jan. 24 in the Geisler Library reading room.
Faculty and students teach English and American culture to Karen refugees from Burma, and learn how to be better teachers in the process.
The Central College Writers Reading series will host Rob Dillard, a Des Moines based correspondent for Iowa Public Radio (IPR).
Central College welcomes Novella Carpenter to campus as a part of the Writers Reading series. Author of “Farm City: The Education of an Urban Farmer,” Carpenter is visiting Central College Oct. 18 to read from her book about the process of growing her own food in the middle of downtown Oakland.
Students weed the prairie bioswales in a campus parking lot to showcase the fall wildflowers that reduce toxic run-off.
Conner Grennan will be on campus to talk about his memoir “Little Princes,” Thursday, Sept. 13. Grennan’s book was chosen as the 2012 common read.
Michael Harris, professor of English, returns to India after 30 years to study the rediscovery of Buddhism in its birthplace, ironically with British colonial help, 25 centuries later. Harris was awarded a Fulbright Grant for his research.
“Little Princes” retells Grennan’s decision to travel the world in 2004 and his subsequent discovery of rampant child trafficking while volunteering at an orphanage in Nepal. The memoir tracks the author’s initial reluctance to involve himself in a country struggling through civil war and his eventual steadfast resolve to aid the children.
As the daughter of a Palestinian father and an American mother, Nye grew up in St. Louis and Jerusalem. She is both a poet and a fiction writer, and her work has been a finalist for the National Book Award.
The Writers Reading series welcomes Central’s own professor of English, Keith Ratzlaff, as the second featured presenter of the spring semester. He will read mostly new poems written during his travels to Italy, Virginia and Chicago during his sabbatical two years ago.
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