{"id":9521,"date":"2017-10-05T16:00:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T20:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=9521"},"modified":"2017-10-05T16:00:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T20:00:05","slug":"mark-baumer-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/mark-baumer-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Event | Mark Baumer (MFA ’11): A Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On Friday, October 13, 2017 from 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.<\/strong>, the Brown University Library will host Mark Baumer (MFA ’11): A Celebration<\/em> in Sayles Hall<\/strong>. After the gathering in Sayles, attendees are invited to join members of Mark’s family, Library staff, and Literary Arts faculty, students, and alumni for a memorial tree planting in front of the Rockefeller Library.<\/p>\n

Mark earned his MFA from Brown in 2011, where he made abiding friends while he pursued an unconventional and abundantly personal approach to writing, teaching, and living. Upon graduating from Brown, Mark began work providing communications for the Brown University Library, becoming, among other things, the voice of Josiah Carberry, long-beloved professor whose areas of study include psycho-ceramics. Taking an extended leave from the Library, Mark began a barefoot trek across the United States on October 13, 2016. From along the walk, he regularly posted video blog materials — http:\/\/thebaumer.com\/<\/a>\u00a0— chronicling the walk, his encounters, and his perception of the nation through which he was passing. In January 2017, he was struck and killed by a passing vehicle.<\/p>\n

Festivities celebrating the many facets of Mark’s connection to the Library and Brown are slated to begin around\u00a010 a.m.\u00a0in Sayles Hall. Harriette Hemmasi, University Librarian, and Kevin Powell, one of Mark’s former colleagues at the Library, will announce the Mark Baumer Book Fund<\/strong>, established by the Library in 2017 to support the acquisition of experimental literature books and media. Following, Karen McAninch of the United Service & Allied Workers of Rhode Island will announce the Mark Baumer Scholarship<\/strong> for Rhode Island native or Rhode Island-based activism.<\/p>\n

From\u00a011 a.m. to noon, Literary Arts faculty and alumni-colleagues of Mark’s will share from his work and talk about how he helped to shape their time at Brown. Joining us will be alumni Darren Angle, Andrew Bourne, and Angela Ferraiolo; and faculty members John Cayley, Colin Channer, Joanna Howard, and Ada Smailbegovic.\u200b<\/p>\n

To donate to the Mark Baumer Book Fund:<\/strong><\/p>\n