DELORES HURST, Reveille Radio News Reporter:
Students find many ways of relieving stress like exercise and sleeping, but for LSU students Lindsay Hopton and Christopher Lot, it is through writing. Hopton and Lot are two of few people who participate in the Highland Coffee Reading Series. According to Director Blake Stephens,
BLAKE STEPHENS (Highland Coffees Reading Series Director): Highland Coffees Reading Series is a series hosted by the Delta Journal. It is a reading series directed at undergraduate writers of fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. We have it on the first and third Thursdays of each month and we schedule about 3 readers each time. We started it so that undergraduate writers can get there work out there,
HURST: The reading series began in spring of 2009 and in many ways brings diversity. Stephens said,
STEPHENS: The students are pretty diverse. We’ve had a lot of poets, a lot of fiction readers. We had a couple of creative nonfiction. I would say we usually have more undergraduate readers, but we had a couple of graduate students, so I say we just get about everyone and as far as writing style goes, it seems like a lot of people are on the wave of contemporary poetry and contemporary fiction. We get a lot of experimental pieces, which is really cool.
HURST: Lot is one who does diverse and experimental pieces. An example of his work is,
CHRISTOPHER LOT (University student): (Natural sound his poem)
HURST: And Hopton is very contemporary, she writes,
LINDSAY HOPTON (University student): (Natural sound of her poem)
HURST: Another participant in the reading series is Engineering Senior Peter Twal. He says that his writing is his way to introduce himself through his own artistic outlet. Twal has participated in the series twice and has found a way to express himself to people.
I’m Delores Hurst with your Reveille Radio news.