Hard Freight Editor-in-Chief Kate Yoder welcomes the crowd. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Audience members enjoy the spring 2025 Hard Freight Café event. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Ember Rose reads a poem at the spring 2025 Hard Freight Café. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Zaria Williams reads an original poem. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Emera Gregor reads an original short story. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Levi Custer performs a song. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Reilly Keen reads an original poem based on "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Students and faculty admire Professor Jeffery Stoyanoff's new tattoos. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Rae Gallagher reads an original poem. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand The audience listens to a musical performance. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Students JJ Colombo and Alex Marcalaya perform a jazz piece. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Patrick Galante reads an original poem. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Talon McKendree shares an original painting. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand English professor emeritus Thomas Liszka performs the poem Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student MiKayla Kelly reads an original poem. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Bailee Seymour reads an original poem. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Darson Antoine reads an original poem. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Piper Maxwell reads an original poem. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Alayna Mark reads an original poem. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Professor Patricia Jabbeh Wesley reads a poem from her latest book. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand Student Emma Moniz reads an original poem. Credit: Erin Murphy Expand