More than 160 TCC students, faculty and staff gathered in the Walsh Library on Oct. 19 for the first annual Dead Writers’ Night event.
Sponsored by the English Department, the Halloween-themed event encouraged participants to dress up in costumes inspired by their favorite deceased author or character and read from the author’s works.
Sixty-three students read from works including Shakespeare, John Milton, Theodore Geisel (Dr. Seuss) and Margaret Mitchell.
The event will continue next October, organizers said, and the committee is also planning a poetry reading event, SlamCon, on April 5.
John Humphrey, TCC library specialist, reads from John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” while dressed as Lucifer. Photo credit: Zainah Usman
Student Francisco Gutierrez reads from Dr. Seuss’s The Cat in the Hat while dressed as the title character.
Student Kristol Lerma, dressed as Margaret Mitchell, reads from Gone with the Wind. Her costume won a prize from event organizers.
Student Jonathan Wright reads the “To Be or Not to Be” soliloquy from Shakespeare’s Hamlet.
Alyssa Stack and Kiana Sambursky, dual credit students from Eagle Mountain Saginaw High School, read from Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven.”
