Community College by Patricia D. Johnston

$14.99

 

Community College by Patricia Dunkel Johnston is a delightful collection of poems about about teaching a class of 30 students in freshman English in a community college—“some have lost their jobs and are returning / for radiology, nursing, or going on….” The poems explore the students’ lives such as “Lily”: “Before her ex-boyfriend killed her, she sat near the door of my classroom/ so she could leave early…she had no one to babysit her three young children.”  The poems also explore the professor who loves “the moment when I sense the class is really listening.”  Dunkel Johnston’s poems are honest and insightful in this revealing collection of poems.

–Leah Maines

 

 

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Community College

by Patricia D. Johnston

$14.99, paper

978-1-63534-629-9

2018

Patricia Dunkel Johnston graduated from Wellesley College with a chemistry degree and has completed 23 hours of advanced biochemistry from Purdue University.  ‘She has a Master’s degree in English and Dramatic Arts from Columbia University, and she taught Shakespeare, play writing and other dramatic literature courses at the college of the University of the North Carolina School of the Arts for twenty years.

Her novel, Forever and a Day, was published by Avalon Press.  Her murder mystery novels, Real Estate is for Blood  and  Murder in the Cloning Place are published on Kindle.  She has had play and /or musical productions in Wellesley, Massachusetts; Rochester, New York; Morristown, New Jersey; Greensboro, North Carolina, and a reading by professional actors in New York City.  Her two-act play, I’m Coming Home, Rejoicing, was a finalist for the Robert J. Pickering Award for Playwriting Excellence. Her three-act play, Offing Ulysses, had a reading at Romulus Linney’s playwriting seminar at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference.  Her musical, a rather outrageous rendition–yet still religious–of Bunyan’s The Pilgrim’s Progress, was written in collaboration with Rosalind MacEnulty.
She has just finished an historical novel, Shadow of the Crown, which proposes that the playwright, Christopher Marlowe, was the illegitimate son  of Queen Elizabeth.
While she has lived most of her life in Winston–Salem, North Carolina, she now lives in York, Pennsylvania.  She is the mother of four very talented children.

 

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