Tea Time Tranquility at the MuseumEvery Thursday, September 05 – November 21, 4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Top floor, Elaine Langone Center on the campus of Bucknell University701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PA 17837Take a break from the world and savor afternoon tea at the Samek Art Museum. In the serene setting of our exhibition, Slow Looking, a different guest speaker each week will lead an informal chat with guests on a topic related to the show, from surrealism to how to collect art. Come to one, two, or all in the series! For more information about the topics and our guest speakers, please visit museum.bucknell.edu.

Fiction & Poetry ReadingVivian Hu & Jessica Nirvana RamThursday, November 14, 7pm, Bucknell HallA 2024 NEA Fellow, Vivian Hu has received fellowships from the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference and A Public Space. Her stories have appeared in A Public Space, The Drift, Narrative, and elsewhere. She is the Fall 2024 Roth Resident in Creative Writing at Bucknell.Jessica Nirvana Ram is the author of the debut poetry collection Earthly Gods (Variant Literature, 2024) and the chapbook in the aftermath (Prismatica Press, 2024). Her work has appeared in Prairie Schooner, Chicago Quarterly Review, and Hayden's Ferry Review, amongst others.

Sister Sadie's sound is uniquely its own — undeniably classic, hard-driving bluegrass that is so much more. Rooted in forceful and tight vocal harmonies, the women's music isn't your granddaddy's Appalachian high lonesome sound. This is something far more powerful than that — it's the sound of the mountains themselves.

Tea Time Tranquility at the MuseumEvery Thursday, September 05 – November 21, 4:30 p.m.Samek Art Museum, Top floor, Elaine Langone Center on the campus of Bucknell University701 Moore Avenue, Lewisburg, PA 17837Take a break from the world and savor afternoon tea at the Samek Art Museum. In the serene setting of our exhibition, Slow Looking, a different guest speaker each week will lead an informal chat with guests on a topic related to the show, from surrealism to how to collect art. Come to one, two, or all in the series! For more information about the topics and our guest speakers, please visit museum.bucknell.edu.

Writers in Conversation: The Ongoing AncientSrikanth Reddy & Michael Bazzett, moderated by Dan Beachy-QuickTuesday, December 3, 7pm on ZOOMhttps://bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-GsrjMpG91idEtMgUsjL-PgGce5FWqc (https://bucknell.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMsd-GsrjMpG91idEtMgUsjL-PgGce5FWqc)Poets Srikanth Reddy and Michael Bazzett will join West Branch contributing editor Dan Beachy-Quick will discuss the persistence of the ancient in contemporary poetry. Moderator Dan Beachy-Quick is Professor of English at Colorado State University and the author of many publications in multiple genres, including six collections of poetry. Michael Bazzett is the author of four collections of poetry and the translator of the Mayan origin epic The Popol Vuh, which was acclaimed by The New York Times. Srikanth Reddy's latest book of poetry is Underworld Lit, a finalist for the Griffin International Poetry. Reddy is the poetry editor of Paris Review and a professor at the University of Chicago.