Scenes from Hilary Bettis' play Alligator, read by actors Kira Sternbach and Hannah Cheek.

The distinguished stage, television and film actors Patricia Randell, Rosalind Rita, and Geneva Carr read scenes from Wendy Hammond's play.

A story by author Laren Stover read by stage, film, and TV actor Patricia Randell. Stover also penned Bohemian Manifesto, A Field Guide to Living on the Edge and The Bombshell Manual of Style. This reading was selected to mark the 9/11 anniversary.

Film, stage, TV actor and musician Michael Cerveris (FRINGE) reads the title work from a collection by poet Michael Dickman whose books of poems, The End of the West and Flies were published by Copper Canyon Press in 2009 and 2010.

Actor Ean Sheehy (familiar to Law & Order viewers as well as PS 122 fans) reads three Youth Lesson monologues from Hilary Bettis's award-winning 2011 play American Girls which has been published in Plays from New River 1 (McFarland).

In this segment stage, film, and TV actor Cotter Smith reads Harry’s Problem, a short story by M.Z. Ribalow whose play Masterpiece has just been published plus a poetry collection and a novel, Peanuts and Crackerjacks, coming later in 2011.

Prose vignettes, four short prose pieces by Lucia Coppola, excerpts from "Talking With Trees" ("Rocks", "The Bridge", "Roses", "North") read by Cynthia Adler, followed by "21" by Elyena de Goguel, read by Hanna Cheek.