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The last selection in our series on humankind and the nature world is Bringing Nature Home by Douglas H. Tallamy. This is a fantastic...

We picked this book out half a year ago for our series on humankind in the natural world; who knew it would be so relevant? The Hidden...

Would you like some gentle feedback on new work you’ve written? Bring 12 copies (one poem or excerpt of prose, 2000 words max.). to the...

You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning and Trumbull County libraries, YSU Maag Library via OhioLink and the YSU Barnes & Noble....

You can find copies at the Mahoning and Trumbull County libraries, YSU Maag Library via OhioLink and the YSU Barnes & Noble. Food for...

New York Times reviewer Dwight Garner writes of Bass’s collection, “He is a keen and relentless observer of woods and prairies and beasts...

Author Tamiko Beyer writes in the Georgia Review of Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Oceanic, “The poet reminds her readers that as human beings...

This round of titles, we’ll be immersed in a theme of humankind and the natural world. The Overstory Food for Thought book discussion...

After a summer hiatus, Food for Thought book discussion will start up in September with a series on being in the natural world. Each...

Cokie Roberts spoke to a packed house at Stambaugh Auditorium last year, and we have You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning and...

Scott Simon was a recent speaker at St. John’s Episcopal Church, and we have selected his You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning...

Kelly Link was a recent visiting writer at YSU, and we have selected her book as part of You can find copies of the book at the Mahoning...

Austin Channing Brown recently spoke at St. John’s Episcopal Church, so we have selected her book as part I’m Still Here: Black Dignity...

Many of you joined our Food for Thought discussion of Citizen: An American Lyric last year, part of our series on the American...

Many of you enjoyed the reading and craft talk by Robert Olmstead Savage Country. “For weeks countless swarms of locusts, brown-black and...

Join us for a conversation about Crossings: A Doctor-Soldier’s Story by Fall Literary Festival visiting writer Jon Kerstetter. Read more...

We will meet at Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St., on Wednesday, May 9, from 6:00-7:00 pm. If you would like to order a bite to eat, please...

Join us for a discussion of the highly awarded memoir My Own Country. The author, Abraham Verghese, a physician who grew up in Ethiopia,...

We will meet at Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St., on Wednesday, March 14, from 6:00-7:00 pm. If you would like to order a bite to eat, please...

We will meet at Cultivate Cafe, 901 Elm St., on Wednesday, February 14, from 6:00-7:00 pm. If you would like to order a bite to eat,...