The Anne Braden Institute for Social Justice Research (Ekstrom Library, Room 258) is hosing a fall open house on Tuesday, September 7th 11AM-2PM.  Stop by for FREE refreshments in our reading room!  It's an opportunity to learn about Anne Braden & the Institute's events scheduled for this semester...plus meet the Institute's staff!  Questions, contact Amber Duke at 852-6142.

Poets and online journal editors Leslie McGrath and Patty Seyburn. McGrath, managing editor of Drunken Boat arts journal, also conducts literary interviews for the Writer's Chronicle and public radio; her first poetry collection, "Opulent Hunger, Opulent Rage," won the 2004 Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry.

Martha Greenwald, UofL creative writing teacher and author of the poetry collection "Other Prohibited Items," which won the 2010 Mississippi Review Poetry Series. She was a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford University and received awards from the Kentucky and North Carolina arts councils.

She will read her poems at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 14 in Bingham Poetry Room, Ekstrom Library.

Brian Teare, California College of the Arts and New College of California writing teacher. Teare's first book, "The Room Where I Was Born" won the 2003 Brittingham Prize and the 2004 Triangle Award for Gay Poetry. He also received National Endowment for the Arts and Wallace Stegner fellowships.