Jon Rounds, songwriter and acoustic guitarist. began his musical career in State College in the 1970s as the lead guitarist for the folk/country singer Bob Dear, whose repertoire included songs by Guy Clark, Gordon Lightfoot, Jerry Jeff Walker, and early Bob Dylan that would become part of the Americana canon long before the genre was...
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church will host a free poetry reading and panel discussion featuring the winners of their 2022 Poetry Contest, Caring for Creation. The poetry reading will be hosted by poet Marjorie Maddox. Marjorie Maddox is a professor of English at Lock Haven University and assistant editor of Presence: A Journal of Catholic Poetry. She...
Julia Spicher Kasdorf The events of 2020—global pandemic, economic devastation, revelations of social injustice, the legacy of slavery, political division, and violence against institutions—have created crises of meaning for many. In these times, communities of faith turn to prayer and theological reflection, but also to art, which seeks new images and metaphors to name and...
