Tonight Vox will have its monthly reading series.

The event features a pan-campus cast, including readers from the “Georgia Review” magazine and from the department of education.

The Pan-Campus Love Fest will begin at 7:30 p.m. at Hot Corner Caf�.

It’s free and will feature four University authors: Jenn Blair, Si�n Griffiths, Misha Cahnmann Taylor and David Ingle.

Vox is an organization run primarily by graduate students in the University’s creative writing department.

Almost every month during the academic year, Vox holds a reading series event in which different members of Athens writing community get the opportunity to share ith others.

Dorine Preston, a fourth-year graduate student and organizer of this month’s event, said she enjoys having February’s reading because of its proximity to Valentine’s Day.

“Featured works for February’s event need not have romantic themes – this is a ‘love fest’ in the sense that this event unites multiple genres, as well as people of diverse departments and disciplines from around campus,” she said.

According to Griffiths, most readers are students in the University’s graduate creative writing program, but sometimes Vox gets talented outside readers to share their work as well, as will be the case this time.

The organizers and participants in Vox events are all deeply committed to sharing their works with each other and Athens.

“Writing must be shared if it is to remain vital, and Vox creates a space to share what we’re writing,” Griffiths said.

However, because the reading series is run by the English department, it tends to attract primarily English students.

“Lots of fellow graduate students in the English department attend because it is a time to get out of your own work and experience someone else’s,” Preston said.

“But we also try to select readers of interest to other special interest groups and also extend our reach off campus,” she said.

This month’s special interest readers are Taylor, who is a poet and associate professor of language and literacy education, and Ingle, a poet and assistant editor to the Georgia Review magazine.

“I think it’s important for scholars to participate in artistic events as well as for artists to be engaged in scientific inquiry because the outcome from mergers between artists and scientists becomes greater than the sum of two parts,” Taylor said.

Aside from the pursuit of greater understanding, participating in an event such as this one gives these writers a special chance to share their works with not only Athens community but also the English department, since their jobs separate them from the other creative writers on campus.