presents
Poet Mary Rising Higgins
Photographer Michael Cherney
Saturday, September 29, 7pm
Dinnerware Gallery
135 East Congress
Admission: $5; Students $3
Mary Rising Higgins is the author of two books of poetry: red table(S (La Alameda Press, 1999) and OCLOCK (Potes and Poets Press, 2000). A new book, )locus TIDES(, will appear from Potes and Poets in fall 2002. Higgins' poetry has also appeared in Central Park, Hambone, Big Allis, and other journals.
for samples of Mary Rising Higgins' work you can go to
http://www.potespoets.org/catalog/oclock.htm
for a review of OCLOCK, by Patrick Durgin in Rain Taxi, see
http://www.raintaxi.com/higgins.html
Michael Cherney will present a collection of photographic slides that join images of China, including Tibet, with 2400-year-old Taoist writings in the form of calligraphy. An informal narrative will deal with the various locations, ethnicities and beliefs of southwest China, including ancient wisdom traditions.
An award-winning photographer and experienced sinologist, Michael Cherney is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. His primary work aside from photography is as Executive Coordinator for Friendship Homes and Schools, a non-profit organization that supports orphans in southwest China.
Samples of Cherney's art can be seen at:
POG events are sponsored in part by grants from
the Tucson/Pima Arts Council and
the Arizona Commission on the Arts
POG also benefits from the continuing support of The University of Arizona Extended University Writing Works Center, The University of Arizona Department of English, The University of Arizona Poetry Center, the Arizona Quarterly, and Chax Press.
for further information contact
POG:
296-6416