Performance of Poetry & Stories by Donna Decker at Butterfield's Roadhouse November 20, 2010

The Frog and The Hummingbird Co & Butterfield's Roadhouse proudly presents a performance of poetry and stories about living in Key West and on the Forgotten Coast by Donna Decker at Butterfield’s Roadhouse in Sopchoppy on November 20, 2010 at 7:30 p.m. With a Musical Finale with Gabriel Butterfield, Frank Lindamood and Andy Moorer!

We have had many requests for nights of readings and this will be a first time Poetry and story night at Butterfield's Roadhouse.

Donna Decker has been a long time supporter, volunteer, patron and friend and we are pleased to host this upcoming exciting event. Donna has a charismatic and humorous flair to her and we invite you to come and join us for this special affair!

Donna Decker

An award-winning graduate of Florida State University's Ph.D. program in English with a creative writing emphasis, Donna Decker now lives on the Forgotten Coast of the Florida Panhandle. She is the author of the poetry book Under the Influence of Paradise: Voices of Key West—poems set in Key West characters’ voices. She co-wrote the poetry book, Three Thirds and is co-editor of Anhinga Press’ North of Wakulla: An Anthology of Tallahassee Poets. She has widely published her poetry in magazines such as New Collage and Genre, and essays in places such as The Between Two Rivers Anthology: Stories from the Red Hills to the Gulf, Aveda magazine’s Organica, and Tallahassee’s Apalachee Review.

Dr. Decker is a founding member of Tallahassee’s Java Girls poetry performance troupe. A performance poet, she has written, directed, produced and performed in numerous multi-media performance pieces with musicians, dancers, and visual artists. She has been a contributing writer to Tallahassee’s newspaper, The Tortoise; is a founding member of the College of Staten Island’s literary magazine All Ways a Woman; and is the former poetry editor of Willa, the National Council of the Teachers of English’s literary magazine.

Dr. Decker, along with her sister Helen, founded the Harbor Series—Staten Island, New York’s longest running poetry reading series—which featured new writers paired with established poets, Allen Ginsberg, Quincy Troupe and more.

Dr. Decker is a former full professor of English at the University of Wisconsin—Stevens Point where she taught for fifteen years. Currently, she teaches writing and speech for Florida State University’s College of Business, and conducts workshops on creative writing, teaching writing, and performance for children and adults. She volunteers as a wildlife rescuer and a sea turtle patroller and is completing a collection of essays, Ways to Enter Water: A Decade of Living on the Gulf, largely set on the Panhandle peninsula of Alligator Point, including stories about swimming with wild dolphins. She will present a performance of her poetry and stories about living in Key West and on the Forgotten Coast at Butterfield’s Roadhouse in Sopchoppy on November 20, 2010 at 7:30 p.m.

Additional material if needed: She is co-renovator of the award-winning Soul Gardens cottages in Tallahassee’s Frenchtown district. Dr. Decker is a former full professor of English at the University of Wisconsin--Stevens Point where she taught for fifteen years, winning the Excellence in Teaching Award and the Mentor Leadership Award. While at UWSP, she directed The Writers’ Workshop for twelve years—a University writing scholarship program for Wisconsin high school students. She was instrumental in establishing the English Department’s creative writing program and was credited in creating a “Renaissance of poetry” at UW-Stevens Point. She also helped found and was advisor for almost ten years for The Lincoln Hills Young Poets Project—a University student organization where UWSP student-poets teach poetry workshops to young men incarcerated at Lincoln Hills Correctional Facility in Alma, Wisconsin. She was adviser for the English Department’s student literary journal, Barney Street, and additional student groups i.e. the performance group--The Gumshoe Troupe, and the Women’s Resource Center.

Reservations are strongly suggested. seating is Limited.

Doors open at 7:30 PM

Assorted Beverages, Light fare and dangerously delicious desserts are available at nominal cost.

We will be featuring and serving our Honduran Coffee.
This coffee is also for sale by the pound and just in time for the holidays.

Free on street parking

Suggested Donation $5.00

Free door prize drawings

Gift shop will be open.

To make reservations or for more information
email:
frogandhummingbirdco@yahoo.com

Looking forward to seeing everyone!