Literary
Readings
2006-2007 Academic Year
St. Petersburg College--Clearwater Campus
Poet Donna Decker
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© 2005 Roger Hall |
Tuesday
November 7, 2006 at 7:00 p.m. |
 © 2005 Roger Hall |
All welcome. Admission is free. Refreshments and book signing to follow.
Dr. Donna Decker has a Ph.D. in Creative Writing from Florida State University. Her poetry and prose has been published in many journals and anthologies. She is author of the volume of poetry Under the Influence of Paradise: Voices of Key West and editor (with Mary Jane Ryals) of the Anhinga Press anthology North of Wakulla. For fifteen years, she was professor of writing at the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point and currently lives in Florida's Big Bend where she is a volunteer wildlife rescuer with The Florida Wild Mammal Association and a sea turtle patroller with Alligator Point Sea Turtle Patrol. A native of New York, Decker is known as an entertaining performer and reader who delights in recreating the voices of the characters in her poems.
Read some of Decker's work!
Poetry:
"The
Twelve-Year-Old Granddaughter from Tampa Feeds the Fish Off Mallory Pier"
(WILLA: Women in Literacy and Life Archive, 1997)
"The
Woman on Her Second Honeymoon in Key West" (WILLA: Women in Literacy
and Life Archive, 1997)
"Touching Mr. Spock" and "Solstice
on Alligator Point" (MS Word file)
Essays:
"In the Presence of Grace on
Bald Point," "Easter Night and the Seagull" and "Our Heritage of
Water" (MSWord file)
"After the Hurricane:
Playpens of Pelicans on the Panhandle"
Turtle and Cormorant artwork © 2005 Roger Hall visit http://inkart.net. Used here with permission.
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