Dear Eric,

Sure. But none that I read specifically address these issues.

David

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From: Miami University Creative Writing Faculty [[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Goodman, Eric [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 9:13 AM
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Subject: Empty Bowls

Dear Writers,

    I’ve been contacted by the organizer of the Empty Bowls event here in Oxford, which is Saturday, November 6th.  Connie wants to know if Writers Harvest participants would be willing to have the work they read at Writers Harvest reproduced in some way to be displayed at Empty Bowls.  I said I’d check with all of you.   I’ll have more details, regarding length, etc, after I speak to her tomorrow night.     Let me know.

     See her email below:

     I am so happy to be getting in touch with you, thanks to the referral from Bill Clark in Miami’s Office of Community Engagement and Service.  I am pleased to introduce myself as the organizer of Oxford “Empty Bowls,” a benefit soup luncheon dedicated to helping alleviate food insecurity in our community.  This fall we enter our eighth year of the event, which last year alone raised over $4,300 for the Oxford Community Choice Pantry.  Ours is a very broad-based event, spanning town and gown, with no organizational basis resting in a single entity.  It is my belief that the more people who are involved, the greater the short term support for the event and the greater its chance of long-term survival.  If you’ve not been before, I hope you will join us this year!  The attached flier has the event details, but what it can't convey is how much FUN the luncheon is, how GOOD the food is, how BEAUTIFUL the bowls are, and how WONDERFUL it is to know that your presence and your contribution makes a difference in the lives of those served by the food pantry!

Which of course, finally, brings me to the point of this note.  Eric, I would really like to involve Writer’s Harvest in our event!  I know that WH will have concluded this week as part of Hunger + Homelessness Awareness Week, but I wondered whether there might be a way for us to feature some of the works written for event, either as copied works available for reading at the luncheon tables, poems printed on tabloid-sized paper and mounted around the room, or what?  Would you have other ideas?  Part of our mission is to raise awareness as well as funds, and your writers’ pieces would definitely contribute to this goal.  It has also been very important for me to, through the event, simultaneously give voice to some of our local artists, which include local Children’s art programs and the Scripp’s Gerontology Center’s “Opening Minds Through Art” program.  I would be delighted to feature written works as well!