Allyson Horton

An Evening with the Muse

an evening with the muse december 8 tracy mishkin allyson horton butler mfa programWhat are you doing this Sunday evening? Well cancel it, because at 7PM on December 8, Broad Ripple’s Indiana Writers Center is hosting a new reading in their series An Evening with the Muse: The Inter Urban Poets, the roster of which includes two talented, veteran poets from our MFA program, Tracy Mishkin and Allyson Horton. The other poets on the bill include Linda Lee, Jeffrey Owen Pearson, Helen Townsend, Ali Birge, Mike Brockley and Pat Cupp. The event is free, open to the public, and will feed both your soul and your body. Because poems… and refreshments. Continue reading

Butler’s bountiful harvest

After months of preparation, planning, and a venue upgrade, on Tuesday Butler’s first annual Writer’s Harvest came and went without a hitch. It was, in the words of one of our attendees, “One of the coolest, most amazing things I’ve ever gotten to see.” Hopefully you managed to hear about it from a friend, read about it in the paper (or on this very blog), or maybe you saw one of its beautiful posters– and hopefully you attended.

butler writer's harvest john green second helpings community kitchenIf you did, you saw eight (8!) tall boxes of donated rice and dried pasta filled to the brim, and you saw 761 spectators of all ages fill Clowes Hall. Considering the capacity of our original venue – Atherton Hall’s Reilly Room – is 400, and those eight boxes of donations added up to over 900 pounds of food (1.2 pounds of food per attendee), I’d say this harvest was a resounding success. Not bad for our first, eh? Continue reading

Butler’s bountiful harvest

After months of preparation, planning, and a venue upgrade, on Tuesday Butler’s first annual Writer’s Harvest came and went without a hitch. It was, in the words of one of our attendees, “One of the coolest, most amazing things I’ve ever gotten to see.” Hopefully you managed to hear about it from a friend, read about it in the paper (or on this very blog), or maybe you saw one of its beautiful posters– and hopefully you attended.

butler writer's harvest john green second helpings community kitchenIf you did, you saw eight (8!) tall boxes of donated rice and dried pasta filled to the brim, and you saw 761 spectators of all ages fill Clowes Hall. Considering the capacity of our original venue – Atherton Hall’s Reilly Room – is 400, and those eight boxes of donations added up to over 900 pounds of food (1.2 pounds of food per attendee), I’d say this harvest was a resounding success. Not bad for our first, eh? Continue reading