Events
Thank you for your interest in the Spring 2025 Reading Series sponsored by the College of Arts & Sciences, Creative Writing Program, and Mid-American Review. Unless otherwise noted, readings are at 7:30 p.m. Thursday evenings at Prout Chapel. All events are free and open to the public.
Spring 2025 Prout Chapel Reading Series
January 16
Sydney Koeplin (MFA – Fiction)
Nathan Fako (MFA – Poetry)
January 23
Carolyn Hogg (MFA – Fiction)
Jaden Gootjes (MFA – Poetry)
January 30
Tara Stringfellow (Distinguished Visiting Writer)
February 6
Serenity Dieufaite (MFA – Fiction)
Melayna Pongratz (MFA – Poetry)
February 13
Undergraduate Open Mic
February 20
Verena Mermer (Visiting Reader/Presenter)
February 27
Liz Barnett (MFA – Fiction)
Garret Miller (MFA – Poetry)
March 6
Spring Break - No Reading Tonight
March 13
Sandra Beasley (Visiting Reader/Presenter)
March 20
Hannah Goss (MFA – Fiction)
Anna Vaughn (MFA – Poetry)
March 27
No Reading Tonight (AWP Conference)
April 3
CRAFT TALK: Tara Stringfellow (Distinguished Visiting Writer)
April 10 BFA Readings
- Jay Grummel (Poetry)
- Gretchen Troxell (Fiction)
- Katherine Fischer (Poetry)
April 17 BFA Readings
- Elias Calloway (Fiction)
- Michaela Finn (Poetry)
April 24 BFA Readings
- Greta Mylin (Fiction)
- Hunter Clevinger (Fiction)
May 1
Exam Week - No Reading Tonight
ENG 3120 Poetry Workshop Virtual Guest Lecture by poet Saida Agostini
THURSDAY, APRIL 10, 2025
11:30AM-12:45 PM
This Virtual Guest Lecture will include a craft talk and Q&A session focused on Agostini's first full-length poetry collection titled let the dead in (Alan Squire Publishing, 2022), an exploration of the mythologies that seek to subjugate Black bodies, and the counter- stories that reject such subjugation. Audacious, sensual, and grieving, this work explores how Black women harness the fantastic to craft their own road to freedom. A journey across Guyana, London, and the United States, it is a meditation on black womanhood, queerness, the legacy of colonization, and pleasure. These poems craft a creation story fat with love, queerness, mermaids, and blackness.
This event is open to any students currently enrolled in ENG courses.
For more information, details, or questions, please contact Jessica Zinz-Cheresnick (jzinz@bgsu.edu)
Updated: 04/18/2025 09:48AM