Photos by Elizabeth Perryman
Tell Me This Didn’t Happen: Poems on Truth — a poetry reading presented by faculty from the School of English, hosted in the Honors College and produced by the Common Experience. Truth is the Common Experience theme for the 2019/2020 school year, the readings portrayed the authors personal truth.
A Jazz trio opened the poetry reading Chris Beard on Sax, Cole Yates on Bass, and Israel Yaez on drumsCole Yates on Bass, Chris Beard on SaxCole Yates on BassOur first reading was from Steve Wilson, reading from his self published book “Is this forever, or what” He read five poems from various other publications of his own work as wellKathleen Pierce reading “Dominos”, she read three total poems written by herselfCecily Parks reading “The Indiana Bats” which is poem she wrote about endangered bats for a wildlife preservation societyNaomi Nye read poems written by a young girl in the war stricken lands of Syria “The Tiny Journalist”Rodger Jones read poems that he wrote early in grad school about his childhood memories John Blair read excerpts from Galeo and Vladimir NabokovSteve Wilson posing with his self published book about Texas Landscapes Cecily Parks and Naomi Nye posing for a photo
