Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series

The Lunch Hour Series was instituted in 1979 to provide a regularly scheduled program, consistent in quality but also in time and location, to yield greater attendance by the local and college communities. The series has a devoted audience of retirees who attend, in addition to working members of the community, area teachers and their classes, and, of course, students and faculty of the college. The Lunch Hour Series also works with particular interest groups to bring to the college special programs -- such as the Jewish community during Stanley Sultan's visit, and members of Michael Burkard's poetry writing workshops during his visits to the campus.

The program consists of four readings in the fall and four in the spring of each year. The series offers poetry, fiction, and drama readings by writers of particular promise: New York poets, regional writers, African-American, Asian-American, Italian-American, and Jewish-American writers. In the past twenty years, the Lunch Hour Series has introduced Utica College and the Utica area to Hayden Carruth, Michael Burkard, Jean Valentine, Thomas Friedman, Jane Kenyon, Walter Mosley, Lesli Li, Toni Cade Bambera, Gwendolyn Brooks, Stephen Dobyns, and others.

Sponsored by the Utica College Social Cultural Committee, programs for the Harry F. and Mary Ruth Jackson Lunch Hour Series begin at 12:30 p.m. Musical performances are held in the Library Concourse, while literary readings are held in Macfarlane Auditorium. Call (315) 792-3347 for more information.

Literary programs are made possible with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency.

 

Schedule

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