Buckeye Talks on Tap / A Literary Legacy: Cornfield Review at 50

Date
May 19, 2026
Time
5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Location
Bucci’s Italian Scratch Kitchen (the Dock at Bucci’s) 320 W. Center St., Marion, OH

About this event

Featured Speaker: Ohio State Marion Professor of English, Dr. Ben McCorkle 

This presentation offers a brief history of Cornfield Review, Ohio State Marion's long-standing literary journal. Established in 1976, Cornfield Review has served as a centerpiece of the creative community not only of the Marion campus, but the central Ohio region and beyond. Copies from the publication's archive will be available for perusal, and a small selection of readings will be shared with the audience. 

McCorkle's area of research is in rhetorical theory and history; rhetorics of the body; technologies of communication; digital media studies.

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