Join us Wednesday November 1 for a very special evening of readings and digital art. We will begin at 5:00 at Suzie’s Dogs & Drafts, 34 N. Phelps St., and at 7:15 move to The Soap Gallery, 117 S. Champion St.
Silence is Golden is an annual multimedia project by YSU art department students, and this year student work will engage with poems and stories from Ohio-affiliated writers participating in the Words Made Visible project, a literary-visual arts collaboration.
The Soap Gallery reading will feature award-winning writers Kevin Haworth of Pittsburgh and Steven Reese of Youngstown. Open mic to follow, emceed by Courtney Kensinger.
Kevin Haworth’s essay collection Famous Drownings in Literary History will be the Food for Thought book discussion group’s December selection.
Kevin Haworth is a 2016 NEA Fellow in Creative Writing and the Director of the MFA
Program in Creative Writing at Carlow University. His books include the novel The Discontinuity of Small Things (winner of the Samuel Goldberg Foundation Prize and runner-up for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize), and the essay collection Famous Drownings in Literary History. He has held residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Ledig International Writers House. He previously taught at Ohio University and at Tel Aviv University. His current book project is a critical biography of Israeli comics artist Rutu Modan.
Steven Reese is the author of three volumes of poetry, Enough Light to Steer By (Cleveland S
tate), American Dervish (Salmon), and Excentrica: Notes on the Text (BlazeVOX) as well as two volumes of translation, Synergos (selected poems of Roberto Manzano; Etruscan) and Womanlands (selected poems of Diana María Ivizate González; Verbum, Spain). He teaches literature and the writing of poetry at Youngstown State University in Ohio, where he currently directs the Northeast Ohio MFA in Creative Writing.