Events
Thank you for your interest in the Prout 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.
Fall 2025 Prout Chapel Reading Series
August 28: Director's Welcome
September 4 Meet the MFA Poets!
September 11 Meet the MFA Fiction writers!
September 18 - Guest Reader
Bonnie Jo Campbell, Fiction
Donnell Theatre / Wolfe Center
September 25 MFA Idol 1: The writing is serious but the competition is fun!
October 2 - Guest Reader
Todd Kaneko, Poetry
October 9 No Prout - Students encouraged to attend Creative Minds presentation on October 8th in the Donnell Theatre
October 16 MFA Idol 2: The writing is serious but the competition is fun!
October 23 - Guest Reader
Erin Carlyle (BGSU alum), Poetry
October 30 Spooky Ooky Undergrad Open Mic
November 6 Winter Wheat
November 13 Full Moon MFA Reading
November 20 - Visiting Writer
Rosemarie Poiarkov, Prose/Drama
November 27 - Thanksgiving Break (no reading)
December 4 - BFA Readings:
Julian Verdugo
Jakob Willer
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Spring 2026 Prout Chapel Reading Series
January 15 - Faculty Reading
Philip Hurst, Fiction
January 22 - MFA Capstone: Serenity Dieufaite, Jaden Gootjes, and Liz Barnett
January 29 - MFA Capstone: Melayna Pongratz and Garrett Miller
February 5 - MFA Capstone: Sydney Koeplin and Anna Vaughn
February 12 - Visiting Writer
Timothy Geiger, Poetry
February 19 - MFA Capstone: Hannah Goss and Nathan Fako
February 26 - No reading
March 5 - No reading (Spring Break)
March 12 - Spring Is Coming!
Undergrad Open Mic
March 19 - Lawrence Coates
Reading and Celebration
March 26 - BFA Capstone
April 2 - Visiting Writer
David Baker, Poetry
April 9 - BFA Capstone
April 16 - BFA Capstone
April 23 - BFA Capstone
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: 11/25/2025 02:35PM