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Author Joe Dornich from Riverside, California, gave a special reading on Tuesday evening at Pittsburg State University as part of the English department’s Visiting Writers Series. He read from his book of short stories called “The Ways We Get By.” Dornich said most of these stories revolved around certain types of jobs, and that he personally performed most of the jobs in his stories.
Gonzaga Visiting Fall Writers Series: Reginald Dwayne Betts Lucky for most of us, you don’t have to be a local university student to take advantage of the myriad opportunities for artistic and cultural exposure and discourse, like that which is part of Gonzaga University’s annual Visiting Writers Series. Joining the series’ roster of past illustrious guests this fall is Reginald Dwayne Betts, who went from being a 16-year-old sentenced to nine years in prison to a Yale Law School graduate and award-winning poet with three published collections. Betts is also a Guggenheim Fellow and PEN New England Award winner. He also founded a first-of-its-kind nonprofit, Freedom Reads, which seeks to increase access to literature for the incarcerated and to “confront what prison does to the spirit.”
Visiting Writers Series Returns to Campus for the 2022-23 Academic Year coloradocollege.edu - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from coloradocollege.edu Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.