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During Downtown State College’s July First Friday, in collaboration with Webster’s Bookstore & Cafe, the gallery will host an evening of literary readings and refreshments.

At 5:30 PM, we will kick things off with a reading by Rachael Lyon, Assistant Teaching Professor of Poetry at Penn State, followed at 6 PM by Lisa Mangini, Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Penn State.

At 6:30 PM, Professor Emeritus of Spanish and Comparative Literature at Penn State Robert Lima will present a reading.

At 7 PM, Nicole Miyashiro will present two new ekphrastic poems based on Diane Samuel’s piece, “Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas/Testimony Against Gertrude Stein,” on currently view in the exhibition, SUMMER READING.