"Lutheran Festival of Writing" hosted this weekend at Luther

Luther College will host the "Lutheran Festival of Writing" this weekend.  The festival features three keynote events in the Center for Faith and Life that are open to the public with no charge for admission.

 Poet Robert Cording's will speak at 7:00 p.m. Friday on "The Longest Day: The In-Betweeness of Art," which will discuss how art helps us understand our human predicament of being suspended between despair and hope, death and life.

Fairleigh Dickinson University's Rene Steinke will speak at 3:00 p.m. Saturday on "The Beautiful Strange: Writing a Novel," talking about the process of researching and writing a historical novel, and read some excerpts.

Eight poets and fiction writers will read their own work at 8:00 p.m. Saturday. The authors are Gary Fincke, Jill Alexander Essbaum, Patrick Hicks, Paul Shepherd, Lauri Anderson, Robert Schultz, Carol Gilbertson and Amy Weldon.