Denise A. Seachrist, an associate professor of music and director of Kent State’s Hugh A. Glauser School of Music, will be reading from her book, “Snow Hill: In the Shadows of the Ephrata Cloister” at 3 p.m. Thursday in the main lobby of the University Library.

There will be a special “Kent Reads, Kent Writes” at 2 p.m. Friday in the lobby.

Friday’s program will feature Avery Caswell, a Kent State graduate and author of “Luck, a Collection of Facts, Fiction, Incantation and Verse at Kent.” An essay from the book has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, an award for short stories, essays and poems.

The “Kent Reads, Kent Writes” series is a free event and is open to the public. The University Library hosts this event every Thursday during the academic year and features different people reading from a book of their choice. Light refreshments are provided.

Contact Cassandra Beck at [email protected].