Poets to Present at Chadron Public Library.
Join us, at the Library, for an evening with poets R. F. McEwen and DeaneTucker.
Thursday, March 3rd at 5:30 p.m.
R. F. McEwen was born in Chicago, Illinois. Since 1962, he has been a professional logger and tree trimmer. He recently retired from teaching English. His work has appeared in numerous journals as well as The Yellow Nib: The Literary Journal of the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry. McEwen’s book Heartwood was featured on CBS Sunday Morning. He co-produced a two-CD collection of the great Irish singer Joe Heaney: Tell a Story: Joe Heaney in the Pacific (Camsco Music). His most recent books are Casey Joe MacBride's White River, Volume 1, And There’s Been Talk, and just hot off the press, Bill’s Boys. These last three titles were published by Stephen F. Austin Press.
Deane Tucker is a professor of Humanities at Chadron State College where he has been on the faculty since 1998. He earned a Ph.D. in Interdisciplinary Humanities from Florida State University in Tallahassee. His interests are in continental philosophy, philosophical aesthetics, film-philosophy, and modernism. Books published: Derridada: Duchamp as Readymade Deconstruction (2008), The Peripatetic Frame: Images of Walking in Film published by Edinburgh University Press in 2019. One of Deane Tucker’s great passions is poetry. His poetry is published in Ice Magazine, Cider Press Review, the Ravens Perch, 805 + Lit, 10th Street Miscellany.
This program is free and open to everyone.
For more information, please call 432-0531