April 12, 2005

St. Clair County Community College (SC4) will host three events to celebrate this year’s publication of Patterns, a literary arts magazine featuring student work. The award-winning publication is the longest continually published community college literary and arts magazine in the state.

A reception honoring the SC4 student writers and artists appearing in the 47th edition of Patterns will be held on Sunday, April 24, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. in the Fine Arts Theatre in Port Huron. Free copies of the magazine showcasing student writing, art, and photography will be available and refreshments will be served.

On Saturday, April 23 SC4 will welcome this year’s distinguished judges of Patterns, with Meet the Authors from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. at the Raven Coffeehouse on Military Street in Port Huron. Popular author Carla Harryman and award-winning writer John DuVal will be on hand to launch the Patterns celebration.

Both judges will be featured and give readings at the Visiting Authors Forum on Sunday, April 24 at 7 p.m. at Thomas Edison Inn.

All three events are open to the public at no charge. For more information contact SC4’s Visual and Performing Arts Department at 810-989-5709.

Carla Harryman is the author of numerous books of poetry, fiction, plays, and essays. Her most recent work includes Baby, a collection of prose poems forthcoming for Adventures in Poetry (New York/Boston), and a play for one performer, Mirror Play, which premiered at New Langton Arts in San Francisco in April, 2004. Other writings include There Never Was a Rose Without a Thorn (City Lights, 1995), a selection of prose poetry and experimental fiction and the experimental novel Gardener of Stars (Atelos, 2001). Her writing has also appeared in translation in magazines, journals, and anthologies in Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Croatian. Recent essays have focused on performance liveness and social space. In fall 2003, she was a visiting artist at the Consortium for the Arts, University of California, Berkeley while staging the San Francisco production of the play, Performing Objects Stationed in the Sub World.

John DuVal directs the Literary Translation Program at the University of Arkansas. His Cockolds, Clerics, and Countrymen was selected by Choice as an Outstanding Academic Book for 1982. In 1992 the Academy of American Poets honored him with the Harold Morton Landon Award for his translation of Cesare Pascarella's The Discovery of America. He received a year 2000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts for his translation of Adam le Bossu's Greenwood Follies, one of the seven Old French verse plays in his and Raymond Eichmann's From Adam to Adam, scheduled for publication by Pegasus Paperbooks in December, 2004. His most recent book of translation, another Pegasus Paperbook with Raymond Eichmann, is Fabliaux Fair and Foul, which will be reissued for the second time in the summer of 2005, this time as an expanded edition.