AN EVENING OF LITERATURE, MUSIC, AND ALIENS, FEATURING:

A short reading from Aliens Attack! by Dave Housley.
Dave is the author of five novels and five story collections, most recently (other than Aliens Attack!) the novel The Other Ones, and the flash collection Looney. He is one of the founding editors at the literary organization Barrelhouse, and the primary organizer of the Barrelhouse conference, Conversations and Connections: Practical Advice on Writing, which is held at American University in Washington, DC. He is the Director of Web Strategy at Penn State Online Education and lives in State College with his wife Lori and son Ben. He wants to believe.

Discussion and QA led by Monica Prince, author of Force, Roadmap, and How to Exterminate the Black Woman.
Monica is the Associate Professor of Activist & Performance Writing, and serves as Director of Africana Studies at Susquehanna University in Pennsylvania. She is the author of Roadmap: A Choreopoem, How to Exterminate the Black Woman: A Choreopoem, Instructions for Temporary Survival, and Letters from the Other Woman, with another choreopoem, FORCE, forthcoming in Janaury 2026. Her work appears in Twisted Tongue, In Short, Wildness, The Missouri Review, The Texas Review, The Rumpus, MadCap Review, American Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. As one of the foremost choreopoem scholars, Prince writes, teaches, and performs choreopoems across the nation.

What People Have Seen and Heard When They Encountered UFOs and Aliens, a talk by Greg Eghigian, Penn State professor of History and Bioethics, and author of After the Flying Saucers Came.
Greg Eghigian is professor of history and bioethics in Penn State’s College of the Liberal Arts. His research focuses on the history of Western medicine and psychology, with a particular emphasis on the ways in which societies deal with people, ideas, and behavior deemed strange or dangerous. His current research focuses on the history of supernatural and paranormal phenomena, specifically UFO sightings and claims of alien contact throughout the world.

Space songs by Penn State student a capella group "Shades of Blue."

Location: Websters Cafe and Books, 133 E Beaver Ave, State College, PA

Date and Time: March 25, 2026, 6 to 7 pm

Books for sale, party favors, large blow-up aliens, small alien figurines free with purchase of book.

This should last about an hour.

All Earthlings are very welcome!