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4/18/05

JOHN DANIEL CLOSES OUT SLU WRITERS SERIES APRIL 28

CANTON – St. Lawrence University Viebranz Visiting Writer John Daniel will 
speak and read from recent works in an appearance on Thursday, April 28, 
at 8 p.m. in Eben Holden, the final event of the academic year in the 
St. Lawrence Writers Series. The event is open to the public, free of 
charge.
	Daniel's latest book, Rogue River Journal, was published this month 
by Shoemaker & Hoard. In November of 2000, after the presidential 
election but before the results were handed down by the Supreme Court, 
Daniel climbed into his pickup, drove to a cabin in the Red River 
Gorge and quit civilization for a proscribed time. The strictures set 
up were severe: no two-way human communications, no radio, no music, 
no news, no clocks and no calendars. He left his wife behind and 
moved into a cabin sure to be snowed-in just after his arrival, where 
he lived in complete isolation until spring, without even his cat as 
a companion.
	Daniel was intent on not hearing a human voice other than his own 
for the next six months. In addition to the physical rigor of working in 
isolation, Daniel had assumed a  hard spiritual task in deciding to 
live alone: to confront his now dead father. Rogue River Journal is the 
result.
	He is also the author of a memoir, Looking After; a collection of 
nature essays, The Trail Home; and two books of poems, Common Ground and 
All Things Touched by Wind. Daniel wrote the text of Oregon Rivers and 
is editor of the anthology Wild Song: Poems of the Natural World. He 
has been a Wallace Stegner Fellow in Poetry at Stanford and a research 
and writing fellow at Oregon State University's Center for the 
Humanities, and recently held a creative writing fellowship from the 
National Endowment for the Arts.  
	For more information, contact the English department at 315-229-5125.
	
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