The VOICES Reading Series at St. Mary’s College of Maryland will feature the multi-talented Shirlette Ammons, a poet, writer, musician, and director of an arts program for children. The event will be held at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, April 7, in Daugherty-Palmer Commons. It is free and open to the public. Ammons has published two collections Find out more »

St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s VOICES Reading Series brings poet Daniel Groves to campus for an 8:15 p.m. reading Thursday, March 31, in Daugherty-Palmer Commons. Groves’ debut collection of poetry, The Lost Boys, was recently published. His poems have appeared in Paris Review, Poetry, and elsewhere. The reading is free and open to the public.

St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s VOICES Reading Series will feature poet Laura-Gray Street at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, March 3, 2011, in Daugherty-Palmer Commons. Street is co-editor of Ecopoetry: A Contemporary American Anthology. This event is free and open to the public. Her work has appeared in Many Mountains Moving, The Human Genre Project and several Find out more »

Students taking the ‘Books that Cook’ course, offered at both St. Mary’s College of Maryland and St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, will read their food-related works during a collaborative Writers Harvest reading at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, February 24, 2011, in Montgomery Hall, room 25. These parallel courses are taught by associate professors Jennifer Cognard-Black (St. Find out more »

Esteemed nature writer and finalist for a 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award Rick Bass will read from his works as part of St. Mary’s College of Maryland’s VOICES Reading Series at 8:15 p.m. Wednesday, February 16, in Daugherty-Palmer Commons. “Bass,” said one Washington Post reviewer, “has an artist’s eye for detailing landscape and conveying its splendor.” The Find out more »

Lawrence Howe, professor at Roosevelt University, will describe Mark Twain’s conflicts with slavery at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, February 3, in the Daugherty-Palmer Commons at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. “His discussion,” said Twain expert Ben Click, English professor at St. Mary’s, “will show that while his book Huckleberry Finn offered considerable insight into the travesty Find out more »

Poet Gina Franco will read from her works at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, January 27, in Daugherty-Palmer Commons at St. Mary’s College of Maryland as part of the VOICES Reading Series. The evening is free and open to the public. Franco is currently working on a manuscript of poems entitled Mother Lode about copper mining in Find out more »