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Donna Decker
In the summer of 1996 Donna Decker wrote a series of dramatic monologues of fictional Key West characters while living in a house on Peacon Lane in Old Town, Key West, Florida--essentially, Under the Influence of Paradise: Voices of Key West. This composite work is an integral part of a performance piece for spring, 1998, that includes actors and a fabric artist, and incorporates a slide show of photographs she has taken of the Key West and Big Pine area.
Donna Decker received her Ph.D. in English with a Creative Writing emphasis in 1990 from Florida State University. She has worked for the last twenty years in the field of choreo-poetry, where she collaborates with artists of various media, merging poetry with dance, theatre, ceramics, sculpture, music, and video. Her recent performance piece, Dear Riz, includes the work of sixteen artists and revolves around the poetry she, her sister, and her brother-in-law wrote about the death of a close friend from the AIDS virus.
She has co-edited North of Wakulla: An Anthology of Tallahassee Poets, has co-authored the poetry book Three Thirds, is the poetry editor of the National Council of Teachers of English journal Willa, is the Director of the Writers Workshop--a writing scholarship program for Wisconsin high school students--advises the UWSP student literary journal Barney Street, co-founded the Harbor Series--a fifteen-year-old poetry reading series in New York City--advises the student group Lincoln Hills Young Poets Project, and has published numerous poems in various literary journals. Most of her life is centered around giving the power of poetry a forum.
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