Dan Mueller Demystifies 'Red Cinquefoil' at English Dept. Colloquium Tues, Nov. 5, 12:30 pm

UNM Department of English Language & Literature
 invites you to the Fall 2013 Colloquium Series
 
A talk by
Daniel Mueller
Associate Professor
Director of Writing, Coordinator of Creative Writing
UNM Department of English Language and Literature
 
“Demystifying ‘Red Cinquefoil’:
A Reading and Talk by Daniel Mueller”

Description: Red Cinquefoil, a member of the rose family, is a wild flower native to the high desert.  In my story, it is also the code name for one of 921 subterranean nuclear test explosions conducted on the Nevada Test Site between 1951 and 1992.  Following a reading of a story first published in CutBank and subsequently anthologized in Surreal South 09 before appearing in my collection of stories NIGHTS I DREAMED OF HUBERT HUMPHREY, published this year by Outpost 19 Books, I will deconstruct the story, laying bare the elements consciously manipulated during its initial composition and subsequent revisions, demystifying to the extent possible a deeply personal and idiosyncratic creative process.

Please join us
 Tuesday, November 5, 2013
12:30 p.m.

English Department Library
Humanities Building, Room 324