Four award-winning Ohio University faculty members will read from their work at the Writers Harvest benefit at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 27, in Irvine Auditorium. Writers Harvest is coordinated on the national level by Share Our Strength, one of the nation's largest hunger relief organizations. Since 1992, Share Our Strength has conducted readings nationwide featuring hundreds of the country's most distinguished writers. Proceeds benefit the Southeast Ohio Food Bank.
People often wonder how they can help with hunger relief in our area.
Featured writers will include poet Robert Kinsley, fiction writers Joan Connor and Jack Matthews, and essayist David Lazar. Kinsley earned a master's in creative writing from Ohio University. Kinsley's poems have appeared in magazines and journals such as Ploughshares , Harvard Magazine , The Indiana Review , Tar River and The Westminster Review . He was awarded an Ohio Arts Council grant, and is currently an editorial associate at The Ohio Review . Connor joined the Ohio University faculty in 1996.