Here is one more event those of you on the Ethics Center e-mail list should
know about:
End the semester with some great prose and poetry read by two amazing
authors, J. P. Dancing Bear and Madeleine Mysko, on Thursday, April 17th
at 11:30am in the Student Center rooms 206 a & b. There will also be
nibbly things, so come and bring your students!
J. P. Dancing Bear has published numerous books including Gacela of
Narcissus City (2006), Billy Last Crow (2004), What Language (2002)
which won the Slipstream Press Poetry Prize, and the forthcoming
Conflicted Light (2008). Bear's poems have appeared or are forthcoming
in hundreds of publications including Shenandoah, Mississippi Review,
Cimarron Review, Poetry East, North American Review, Atlanta Review, The
National Poetry Review, Poetry International, Marlboro Review, Hotel
Amerika, and Puerto Del Sol. He is a founding editor of Disquieting
Muses and was the Editor-in-Chief of Disquieting Muses/DMQ Review for
five years. He is now the editor of The American Poetry Journal. Bear is
the owner of Dream Horse Press, publisher of the first animal rights
poetry anthology And We The Creatures.
Madeleine Mysko's first novel, Bringing Vincent Home (2007), was
praised by war author Tim O'Brien: *[It] reads like the finest memoir .
. . Rarely does a book of any sort touch me as this one did.* Mysko's
first book of poetry, Crucial Blue, is forthcoming. She published prose
and poetry in such venues as The Hudson Review, Shenandoah, Commonweal,
River Styx, The Christian Century, and The Baltimore Sun. A graduate of
The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University, she teaches
creative writing both privately and in the Johns Hopkins Advanced
Academic Programs. She is also a registered nurse with experience in
Assisted living. Among her awards are two Individual Artist grants from
the Maryland State Arts Council, a Howard Nemerov Sonnet Award, and an
Artscape Prize for Fiction from the City of Baltimore.
All readings take place at Utah Valley State College in Orem, Utah, one
hour south of downtown Salt Lake City, off of the I-15 University
Parkway Exit (turn left or North at 800 W; park in the North visitor lot
L, or in the East visitor lot U; click on this parking map link for more
information:
http://www.uvsc.edu/visitors/maps/pdf/06-07_Parking_map-_full_page.pdf
Visitor parking validations are available.
*****
David Richard Keller, Ph.D.
Director, Center of the Study of Ethics
Utah Valley State College
801.863.6363
http://davidkeller.us/
