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This Week at the
Center
Special Event
Friday
Barbara Oakley: "Bad to the Bone"
 Dr. Barbara Oakley is the author of Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron
Failed, and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend and
writes about ways that neuroscience and bioengineering is
impacting complex social and political issues. A professor of
engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, Oakley
is a fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science as well as
the American Institute of Biological and Medical Engineers, and
a recent vice president of the IEEE-Engineering in Medicine and
Biology Society.
Oakley's talk will begin at 7 p.m. Friday, Nov.
6.
General admission is $10; FREE to students and Friends
of the Center.
For more information about this event, call (716) 636-4869
ext. 219 or e-mail hhuber@centerforinquiry.net.
Also this week at the Center for
Inquiry:
Wednesday — Literary
Café: Sadowsky, Gardner, and Keller
 November’s
Literary Café will feature the acclaimed writings of Jane
Sadowsky, Carrie Gardner, and Loren Keller –
Starting
at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 4.
The Just Buffalo Literary Café—held
the first Wednesday of each month at the Center for
Inquiry—features authors and poets, and usually includes
open-reading slots for up to ten readers. Please note: There
will be no open slots in November at the Literary Café.
The Café will focus instead on three acclaimed writers.
The following are November’s featured readers:
Jane Sadowsky earned her masters degree in creative writing
from Emerson College. An administrative assistant at the Stanley
G. Falk School, she has enjoyed helping students prepare for
their poetry jam. She has been a featured reader at local venues
such as The Screening Room and the Buffalo Infringement
Festival, where she read with Loren Keller and Verneice Turner
at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. Her publication credits
include Room of Our Own, The Buffalo News, and
Beyond Bones.
Carrie Gardner is a graduate of the
English/creative writing program at Fredonia State University.
She has been writing and performing her poetry for more than 20
years. While living in Bloomington, Indiana during the late
'90s, she wrote, published, and performed with a group called
Five Women Poets and was published in two anthologies of Midwest
poets. Locally, Gardner has performed her poetry at The Center
for Inquiry, Caz Coffee Café, Talking Leaves Books, The
Screening Room, Rust Belt Books, The Book Corner, and
Nietzsche’s and was featured in Artvoice. Her
latest book, Evil is a Terrific Rubbery Goblet, is
available at UB North Bookstore, Talking Leaves Books, and
directly from www.authorhouse.com. She is currently working
on her next project, titled 98.6.
Loren Keller is the author of seven book of
poetry including his large volume, Evening Everything: The Collected Poems of Loren
Keller. He was a teacher for 31 years and spent a year
at the University of California at Berkeley on a Ford
Fellowship. Five of his plays were produced in Buffalo and he
won an award for his acting. His poems will be featured in the
new Buffalo journal, Beyond Bones. Keller has also
published a novel, Four and Twenty Bluebeards.
See the Tonawanda News' Sept. 2, 2009 article Poetic justice for local scribes
for some background on five area wordsmiths, including
Loren Keller, Jane Sadowsky, and Ken Feltges, who headlined the
Literary Café in October.
 SOS Badge to Badge – Tuesdays, 4:30–6
p.m.
Secular
self-help addiction recovery support group for law enforcement
personnel. This free meeting is open to law enforcement and
corrections officers only.
 SOS (Save Our Selves) – Tuesdays,
7:30–9:30 p.m.
SOS is a secular recovery group dedicated solely
to helping individuals achieve and maintain sobriety.
All who seek sobriety are welcome as members in any open
SOS group.
The Center for
Inquiry/Transnational is located at 1310 Sweet Home
Road,
Amherst, N.Y., across the street from University at
Buffalo North Campus.
For more information
contact Henry Huber at (716) 636-4869 ext. 219 or
hhuber@centerforinquiry.net.
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