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Saturday, July 11 2009, 14:00 - 16:00 |
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Home on the Range
Doug Johnson Book Signing Event
Saturday, July 11, 2:00 P.M.
 Home on the Range- A collection of poems exploring the
complexities of the Arab American experience since September 11. It
was written in reaction to Aziz Shihab's memoir Does the Land remember me? published by Syracuse University Press and looks for ways to honor all the parties caught in the conflicts both here and abroad.
Born in Denver Colorado, Doug Johnson is a writer, musician, and artist. Doug creates hand made greeting cards entitled, Mandala Magic,
and hopes to continue illustrating other projects. A former graphic
artist, he still designs books, CD jackets, and book covers, but he
most enjoys collaborating with artists and authors. Doug’s book Ten years to hold your breath gave birth to the “Cracked Pots” series of illustrations. Faces of Eve in
this issue is the latest in the series.
He composes music for choirs,
orchestra and brass quintets ranging from opera to traditional folk
music out of Zimbabwe. Doug’s poems have appeared in Audience Review and Poesia, and his photos have made the cover of Audience Review and Tipton Review and Whitefish Literary Review. His short stories have appeared in Skive Short Story Quarterly.
He lives with his angel of a wife and youngest son helping her with her arts business cultivating gourmet vinegars, and currently teaches at Davis High School.
His other books include:
 Frank's Diary- A collection of short stories exploring
the intimate voices of pain that surface at times in family and work relationships. The style is patterned after Raymond Carver's
minimalism and the manuscript started in a tribute book written last
year.
Ten years to hold your breath- A memoir of poems in
collaboration with the author's sister who contact juvenile Lupus at
age eight. The book is intended to honor the strength and courage of
his sister while documenting how chronic illness can bend and twist a
family like tree roots on a mountain cliff.
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