64 past events with the reading tag

Ball State University, The College of Fine Arts and the Department of Theatre and Dance present:

The Fisher King: A New Musical
January 16th at 7:30pm
University Theatre

Tickets:
General Public-$10.50
Students-$5.50

Join Ball State students and faculty as they perform a staged reading of a new adaptation of the classic Terry Gilliam story. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime chance to see a new Broadway musical in development. All proceeds benefit department scholarships.

For more information or to purchase tickets, please contact the University Theatre Box Office at 765-285-8749.

IN PRINT V: BALL STATE'S FESTIVAL OF FIRST BOOKS FEATURING NEWLY MINTED AUTHORS MITCHELL DOUGLAS, MARY MILLER, KAO KALIA YANG, & WRITER/EDITOR MATT BELL

Mitchell L. H. Douglas's debut poetry collection, Cooling Board: A Long-Playing Poem (Red Hen Press, 2009), explores the personal and professional struggles of soul legend Donny Hathaway.

Mary Miller's short story collection, Big World, was published in February 2009 by Short Flight/Long Drive Books.

Kao Kalia Yang's first memoir, The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir, was published by Coffee House Press in 2009.

Matt Bell Matt Bell is the author of a forthcoming fiction collection, How They Were Found (Keyhole, Fall 2010). He is also the editor of The Collagist and the series editor of Dzanc's Best of the Web anthology series.

*Teachers: excerpts from all three In Print books are available through Bracken's electronic reserve (search under "Christman" or "Visiting Writers Series")

Ball State students from this spring's Creative Writing in the Community class will read excerpts of poetry and prose written in collaboration with their partners from American Heritage, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Delaware County, Hillcroft Services, and Motivate Our Minds. We want to thank Majorie Hiner, BSU alumna, and her husband, Homer, for funding the CWIC event and publication.

Ball State English professor and poet Mark Neely will read from his new chapbook, Four of a Kind (Concrete Wolf Press), next Tuesday, October 26th at 7:30 p.m. in Bracken Library, room 104. The reading will be followed by a reception and book signing with the author. Both events are free and open to the public and refreshments will be served.

Praise for Mark Neely's Four of a Kind:
"Think newspaper columns: dispatches from the zeitgeist, fromancestral voices, from dreams, from terra incognita.  Think mullioned windowpanes: visions of the real, the hyper-real, TV, the neighbors. Think triptychs plus one in the excessive American way.  Think classical five-act play minus one in the age of diminished expectations. Think split screen, think directions on maps, think humors of the body.  While each frame is an act that arrests, the other frames undermine, amplify, illuminate, or incinerate the original.  Flights turn into dreams turn into blues turn into names in an amazing shape-shifting way.  They are echo chambers that resonate long after the initial reading. They have a furious and inescapable power."  --Bruce Smith, poet

Sponsored by Creative Writing in the Ball State English Department.