Audience members enjoy Penn State Altoona's spring 2025 Hard Freight Café, held Tuesday, March 25, in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.
More than sixty students, faculty, and staff attended the spring 2025 open mic event sponsored by “Hard Freight,” Penn State Altoona's student literary arts magazine, on Tuesday, March 25. The event took place in Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.
Students read original poetry, fiction, and nonfiction; shared visual artworks; and performed music. Students in all majors are welcome to register for ENGL 209, a 1-credit experiential course in which students produce an issue of the magazine.
Hard Freight Cafe is sponsored by the English program and “Hard Freight.”
Hard Freight Editor-in-Chief Kate Yoder welcomes the crowd.
Audience members enjoy the spring 2025 Hard Freight Café event.
Student Ember Rose reads a poem at the spring 2025 Hard Freight Café.
Student Zaria Williams reads an original poem.
Student Emera Gregor reads an original short story.
Levi Custer performs a song.
Student Reilly Keen reads an original poem based on "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe.
Students and faculty admire Professor Jeffery Stoyanoff's new tattoos.
Student Rae Gallagher reads an original poem.
The audience listens to a musical performance.
Students JJ Colombo and Alex Marcalaya perform a jazz piece.
Student Patrick Galante reads an original poem.
Student Talon McKendree shares an original painting.
English professor emeritus Thomas Liszka performs the poem Casey at the Bat by Ernest Lawrence Thayer.
Student MiKayla Kelly reads an original poem.
Student Bailee Seymour reads an original poem.
Student Darson Antoine reads an original poem.
Student Piper Maxwell reads an original poem.
Student Alayna Mark reads an original poem.
Professor Patricia Jabbeh Wesley reads a poem from her latest book.
Student Emma Moniz reads an original poem.
