by Erin McCarty
assistant news editor
Poet Stephen Dunn concluded
Behrend's 2000-2001 Creative
Writers Speaker Series, co-sponsored
by the Mary Behrend Cultural Fund
and the Clarence and Eugenie
Baumann Smith Fund, on
Wednesday, at 7:00 p.m. in the Reed
Lecture Hall. He was introduced by
Dr. George Looney, a creative writing
professor at Behrend and the first
speaker in the series.
"It was [Dunn's] poetry that I read
first 20 years ago that sparked my
interest in contemporary poetry,-
Looney said, praising it for its ability
to "make visible for us the worlds we
live in but seldom notice and never
understand."
Dunn, a tall, bearded man looking
very professorial with his silk vest and
spectacles, began his reading with the
poem "Last Hours," which described
his feelin! - ,:s on the last day of his job
working fora large snack corporation.
He followed this in short order with
"Sexual Revolution," "Something
Like Happiness," and "Before the Sky
Darkens" before pausing to preface
his poem "60" with an unnerving bit
of personal history.
"I always expected I would die
young," Dunn said, referring to the
fact that none of the men in his family
had ever lived to the age of 60. Ile
added that such an outlook had
actually proven quite useful to him,
as it compelled him to live each day
to its fullest. The poem which resulted
from his ruminations on his age was
written as a birthday message to
himself.
Although Dunn is a great believer
in the Socratic saying that "the
unexamined life is not worth living,"
he has often found himself thinking
just the opposite. "At the Restaurant, -
the next poem which he read,
reflected this latter attitude of
ambivalence. The next three poems,
"Old Dogs," "What Goes On," and
"Our Parents," all grappled with the
theme of love, though approaching it
from different angles. Dunn followed
these fairly somber poems with the
humorous highlights of the evening.
"John and Mary had never met.
They were like two hummingbirds
who had also never met. - This was
the epigraph, taken from a short story
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poet concludes series
Stephen Dunn concluded the Creative Writers Speaker Series on
Wednesday with a reading from his books of poetry. Dunn is a
favorite poet of Professor George Looney, who introduced Dunn and
spoke earlier this year in the speaker series.
written by a college freshman, which
formed the basis of Dunn's next
poem. Titled "John and Mary," it was
a series of similes used to describe the
fluttering lovers. Ile followed this
ith "Decorum, - a poem which he
admitted he was very unsure about
reading on this occasion. Written from
the perspective of creative writing
teacher, the poem dealt with a class
discussion on whether or not "the 'F'
word - should replace "lovemaking''
in a particular poem.
Dunn then switched gears by
reading from his book of prose pairs,
short works of prose intended to be
read in pairs. He proceeded to read
"Rights," "Principles," "Scruples,"
and "Saints," followed by
"Seriousness" and "Oklahoma City.-
Ile led up to his conclusion with
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"Story," "Burying the Cat," and
"Backwaters," all of which, as Dunn
apologetically noted, had to do with
dogs or cats. He ended with "A Post-
Morten) Guide (For My Eulogist in
Advance)," a sobering yet witty poem
about how he would like to be
remembered.
The reading lasted for one hour and
was followed by a brief question and
answer period. Dunn remained to sign
autographs for audience members,
and several of his books, which
include 10 collections of poetry, of
which Loosestrile is the most recent,
and two books of prose: Walking
Light: Essays and Memoirs (1993)
and Riffs . and Reciprocities: Prose
Pairs (1998).
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