Plain View Press Group Reading
MonkeyWrench Books is pleased to announce a reading of works by three Plain View Press authors.
Madeleine Mysko will read from, Bringing Vincent Home, a Vietnam-era novel told by the mother of a soldier who returns home with serious burns. A real and riveting portrayal of the burn ward victims and their families.
H. Palmer Hall will read from Coming to Terms, a collection of autobiographical essays with focus on his experiences during the Vietnam War.
Susan Bright will read from The Layers of Our Seeing and other poems.
Madeleine Mysko is a registered nurse and a graduate of The Writing Seminars of The Johns Hopkins University, where she now teaches in the Advanced Academic Programs. Her poems and prose have appeared in The Hudson Review, Shenandoah, Bellevue Literary Review, The Baltimore Sun, and American Journal of Nursing. Her poetry is collected in Crucial Blue (Rager Media). Her novel, Bringing Vincent Home (Plain View Press), is based on her experiences as an Army nurse on the burn ward at Fort Sam Houston during the Vietnam War.
H. Palmer Hall is the author of six books and chapbooks. He is also the library director at St. Mary’s University in San Antonio, Texas, where he teaches English and serves as the director of Pecan Grove Press.
Susan Bright is the author of nineteen books of poetry. She is the editor of Plain View Press which since 1975 has published one-hundred-and-fifty books. Her work as a poet, publisher, activist and educator has taken her all over the United States and abroad. In Texas she has received a proclamation from the Senate honoring her literary and community work, and in Austin she received the Woman of the Year Award in 1990 from the Women's Political Caucus. Her most recent book, The Layers of Our Seeing, is a collection of poetry, photographs and essays about peace done in collaboration with photographer Alan Pogue and Middle Eastern journalist, Muna Hamzeh.
Friday, May 9th
7:30 pm
MonkeyWrench Books
110 E. North Loop
