Poetry performance: 'The Girls on the Roof'
| Date/Time: | Friday, 29 Jan 2010 at 7:00 pm |
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| Location: | Ames Public Library, 515 Douglas Avenue |
| Cost: | Free |
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| Phone: | 515-294-9934 |
| Channel: | Lecture Series |
| Categories: | Arts, performances Lectures |
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The book-length narrative poem features the story of a mother and daughter stranded on the rooftop of Crazy Eddie's Cafe on the banks of the Mississippi River for three days during the flood of 1993. While stranded, they discover things about each other they would prefer never to have known. The performance features Swander reading poems while puppeteer Monica Leo brings the scenes alive through the use of hand, rod and shadow puppets.
Mary Swander is a Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State, where she teaches creative writing.
Swander is the cofounder of Agarts, a national group designed to explore the intersection of the arts and agriculture, and is developing a website, The Iowa Literary Community, where anyone with an Iowa connection can post poetry and other pieces of writing. Her many published works include a memoir, The Desert Pilgrim, four books of poetry and a book of literary interviews, Parsnips in the Snow.
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