Jun 28 2017
The Inspiring Art of Film - An Art Week Event

The Inspiring Art of Film - An Art Week Event

Presented by Marquette Poets Circle and City of Marquette Arts and Culture Center and Marquette Regional History Center at Marquette Regional History Center

We will bring the popcorn! Join local authors Milton Bates, Lynn Domina, Kathleen Heideman, Daniel Rydholm and Russell Thorburn as they share their work and clips of the films that inspire them on Wednesday, 4-6PM, June 28th, at the Marquette Regional History Center. Open to the public. Suggested donation is $5. All proceeds go to the MRHC.  

Milton J. Bates lives on Lake Superior. His publications include books on the poet Wallace Stevens, the Vietnam War, and the Bark River Valley in Wisconsin. His poems have appeared in Bellevue Literary ReviewGreat Lakes ReviewThe Southern Review, and other magazines and anthologies. Five Oaks Press published his poetry chapbook Always on Fire.

Lynn Domina is the author of two collections of poetry, Corporal Works and Framed in Silence, and the editor of a collection of essays, Poets on the Psalms. Her work appears in The Southern Review, The Massachusetts Review, Arts & Letters, The Gettysburg Review, Poetry Daily, and many other periodicals. She serves as Head of the English Department at Northern Michigan University. 

Kathleen M. Heideman is a poet, artist and environmental activist working in Michigan’s wild Upper Peninsula. She is the author of Explaining Pictures To A Dead Hare, She Used To Have Some Cows, and Psalms of the Early Anthropocene, from Winter Cabin Books in 2017. Curious woman.

Daniel Rydholm Rydholm, LCSW, is a social worker with Pathways’ Assertive Community Treatment program in Marquette. He has lectured on the subject of Aging and Film at conferences in Michigan and Minnesota. He is the son of local historian and storyteller, C. Fred Rydholm.

Russell Thorburn is the author of Father, Tell Me I Have Not Aged and Somewhere We’ll Leave the World, (forthcoming from Wayne State University Press). A National Endowment for the Arts recipient and first poet laureate of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. His poems have appeared in many literary journals and anthologies, including Prairie SchoonerSou'westerQuarterly West, and Third Coast.

 

 

Admission Info

Suggested donation of $5 - All proceeds will be donated to the Marquette Regional History Center

Phone: 906-451-4473

Email: janeenrastall@yahoo.com

Dates & Times

2017/06/28 - 2017/06/28

Location Info

Marquette Regional History Center

145 W. Spring St., Marquette, MI 49855

Parking Info

Ample parking around building and public parking, within walking distance of facility.