Penn State Altoona students, faculty, and staff are invited to an open house at the Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (SAMA) in downtown Altoona at 1 p.m. on April 21. They will have the opportunity to view the exhibitions “Passing Freight and Contours: Land, Rail, Rau” by photographer Stephen Mallon and guest curator Julie Rockwell. Both Mallon and Rockwell will be in attendance to speak about their work.
“The Badass Bluettes: An East Coast – West Coast Poetry Reading” on Wednesday, April 24, will feature Penn State Altoona Professor Erin Murphy, Lynne Thompson of Los Angeles, Susan Rich of Seattle, and Mary Lou Buschi of New York.
The spring 2024 issue showcases undergraduate poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, multimedia work, and a faculty spotlight featuring the recent commencement address of Brian Black, distinguished professor of history and environmental studies.
Penn State Altoona Professor of English Erin Murphy is among a quartet of women poets who will present a virtual reading of their works at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, April 24, via Zoom.
“The Badass Bluettes: An East Coast – West Coast Poetry Reading” will feature Lynne Thompson of Los Angeles, Susan Rich of Seattle, Mary Lou Buschi of New York, and Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona. Their respective new poetry book titles are “Blue on a Blue Palette,” “Blue Atlas,” “Blue Physics,” and “Fluent in Blue.”
