OCTC Common Read Hosting Owensboro Native Missy Brownson for a Presentation and Book Signing
Mon., Oct. 15 at 11 AM
Owensboro, KY (10/09/2018) — The Owensboro Community & Technical College (OCTC) Common Reading for fall 2018 is a play written by the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning Kentucky-native playwright Marsha Norman, Getting Out. Getting Out is a play focusing on a young woman as she is released from prison and attempts to assimilate her life, returning home to Kentucky.
As part of the semester long series incorporating events and the themes of transformation, Kentucky poet and Owensboro native, Missy Brownson will host a presentation and signing of her debut poetry collection, Hush Candy, published by Small Press Distribution (SPD). The event is scheduled for Monday, October 15 at 11 a.m. in OCTC's Chandler Conference Center, located in the Advanced Technology Center, at 4800 New Hartford Road, Owensboro. The event is free and open to the public.
In Hush Candy, Brownson revisits the venerable genre of domestic advice manuals, those 19th and 20th century compendia of wisdom designed to guide women (especially aspiring women of the rising middle class) in the exercise of their proper roles in the home and society. Her response is a wicked and witty rejoinder from the perspective of a contemporary woman navigating the changing and challenging terrain of gender expectations and sexual politics and possibilities.
Brownson, is an alumnus of Owensboro High School, a graduate of Earlham College and studied creative writing in the Murray State University Master of Fine Arts program. Beforemovingtothe Bluegrass region, Missy served as co-producer and co-emcee of theThird Tuesday Writers Coffeehouse in Owensboro, Kentucky. Her work has appeared in The Lumberyard Magazine,The Louisville Review, Open 24 Hours and The Heartland Review, where her work was awarded "finalist"and "honorable mention" designations for the 2010 Joy Bale Boone Poetry Prize. Her work has also been distributed via the email poetry service oftweetspeakpoetry.com, EveryDayPoems.
Brownson works in Frankfort, Kentucky as a communications professional. She lives with her good husband and some bad cats in Georgetown. You may find out more about Brownson and her work at www.missybrownson.com.
Additional events for the semester include, Getting Out author, Marsha Norman on campus at OCTC on Thursday, October 25, 2018 at 12:30 p.m. in Blandford Lecture Hall for a reading and book signing. Norman's reading and books signing are free and open to the public.
Dr. Julia Ledford will direct Getting Out as an OCTC production that will run Thursday - Saturday October 25-27 at 7:30 p.m. in OCTC's Blandford Lecture Hall. A $5 donation is requested for the play.
Copies of the play are available for $8 in the OCTC bookstore. For more information on the OCTC Common Reading program please e-mail kaye.brown@kctcs.eduor tonya.northernor@kctcs.edu. For more information on Marsha Norman please visit http://marshanorman.com/.
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Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.
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The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.
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As part of the semester long series incorporating events and the themes of transformation, Kentucky poet and Owensboro native, Missy Brownson will host a presentation and signing of her debut poetry collection, Hush Candy, published by Small Press Distribution (SPD). The event is scheduled for Monday, October 15 at 11 a.m. in OCTC’s Chandler Conference Center, located in the Advanced Technology Center, at 4800 New Hartford Road, Owensboro. The event is free and open to the public.
As part of the semester long series incorporating events and the themes of transformation, Kentucky poet and Owensboro native, Missy Brownson will host a presentation and signing of her debut poetry collection, Hush Candy, published by Small Press Distribution (SPD). The event is scheduled for Monday, October 15 at 11 a.m. in OCTC’s Chandler Conference Center, located in the Advanced Technology Center, at 4800 New Hartford Road, Owensboro. The event is free and open to the public.