About this Event
The Harper College Cultural Arts Committee presents a series of book readings by Harper authors.
All events are in the Harper College Library, and are free and open to all.
Kris Piepenburg, Americans at the Poles: Poems 1982 - 2023
Wednesday, March 6, 2024
12:30pm to 1:45pm
Library Performance Space
Building F, Room F226
Kris Piepenburg, Associate Professor, Liberal Arts, will read from his new collection of poetry Americans at the Poles: Poems 1982 - 2023. His poetry shares perspectives on a wide range of human experiences and states of mind, exploring topics such as gender relations, identity formation, race, multigenerational patterns of existence, and local history.
Kris grew up and has lived in Palatine nearly his entire life, and his writing draws on that experience, as well, in a style that one reader has called "suburban noir existentialism." Published by Papilio Books, Americans at the Poles is available in the Harper College bookstore.
Sandra Marchetti, Aisle 228, and Jim Edstrom, Avenues of Transformation: llinois’s Path from Territory to State
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
12:30pm to 1:45pm
Library Performance Space
Building F, Room F226
Sandra Marchetti, Assistant Manager, Academic Support Center, will read from Aisle 228, her book of poems about the Chicago Cubs, listening to baseball on the radio, and attending games with her father. The book also highlights milestones across baseball in the past 70 years and culminates in the Cubs 2016 World Series win.
Jim Edstrom, Professor, Resources for Learning, will read from his book Avenues of Transformation: Illinois’s Path from Territory to State, which tells the story of the Prairie State’s admission to the Union in 1818 as guided and conducted by territorial leaders such as Daniel Pope Cook, Nathaniel Pope, and Elias Kent Kane. Avenues of Transformation is the recipient of the Russell P. Strange Memorial Book Award from the Illinois State Historical Society as 2023’s “Book of the Year.”
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