Alumna Jen Town will read from her poetry collection, “The Light of What Comes After,” on Thursday, Sept. 20, when she visits Penn State Behrend as part of the college’s Creative Writers Reading Series. Her 6 p.m. reading and the reception preceding it are free and open to the public. Both events will be held in the Larry and Kathryn Smith Chapel.
The number of miner deaths has been substantially reduced in recent decades thanks to the use of modern technology. Among the tools used in a mine emergency is a battery-operated, explosion-proof rescue robot.
In June 2016, Jared Yates Sexton, an associate professor of creative writing at Georgia Southern University, attended a campaign rally for then presidential candidate Donald Trump. He live tweeted throughout the rally. When the rally had concluded, his Twitter followers had jumped from just over 1,000 to more than 80,000, making Sexton an instant social media celebrity.
