[NEohioPAL] Kent State Stark faculty collaborate with poetry and music to present Two Trains Too Many

[WILLIAMS, CYNTHIA]

Poetic and musical collaboration performed by Kent State University at Stark faculty



Two Trains Too Many is the title of collaborative recording of poems and original guitar compositions by Robert Miltner and Erin Vaughn, two faculty members of Kent State University at Stark. For the premiere music event of the 2012-13 season, the duo will perform selections from their CD on Saturday, Sept. 22 at 7 p.m. in Main Hall Auditorium at Kent State Stark, 6000 Frank Avenue NW in Jackson Township. The event is free and open to the public. No tickets are necessary.


Miltner was born in Cleveland and has lived most of his life in Ohio. He has taught a variety of creative writing classes at Kent State University at Stark, including fiction, poetry, prose poetry, creative nonfiction, screenwriting and devising theater. Additionally, he is the Kent Campus graduate coordinator for the Northeast Ohio MFA in Creative Writing Consortium. Miltner's poems, stories and essays have been published in Diagram, Pleiades, Potomac, Sentence, Octopus, Perigee, Bellingham Review, Storyglossia, Istanbul Literary Review, Barn Owl  Review, New York Quarterly, Barrow Street, Journal of the Short Story in English, Christmas Stories from Ohio (KSU Press), Ordering the Storm (CSU Press), and Field Guide to Prose Poetry (Rose Metal Press). He is the author of several chapbooks of poetry, including Rock the Boat, A Box of Light, Queen Mab and the Moon Boy and Against the Simple, which won a Wick Chapbook Award (KSU Press). Hotel Utopia, his collection of prose poems, was selected by Tim Seibles for the New Rivers Press Many Voices Project book prize and was a finalist for the Ohioana Book Award in Poetry. Miltner edits the academic journal, Raymond Carver Review and the literary journal, Quickly.

Vaughn is a guitarist and educator, born, raised and currently residing in Northeast Ohio. He earned his bachelor's degree in jazz studies from The University of Akron and is currently completing his master's degree in music theory from Kent State University. For the past three years, he has been the guitarist with Rock Ridge Music recording artists, Ryan Humbert Band, whose single, I Will Find My Own Way, is currently in heavy rotation on Sirius/XM's Coffee House station. From 2004-09, he was the staff guitarist at Akron's Carousel Dinner Theater with credits, including Cats, Always... Patsy Cline, SWING!, Beehive and All Shook Up. Other theater affiliations include the Canton Player's Guild and the theater department at Kent State Stark. As guitarist for Phoenix Production's national tour of Grease, he played across the United States and Canada. Vaughn has established a reputation for excellence in music education, balancing his private teaching schedule, along with his appointment at Kent State Stark (instructor and coordinator for the guitar department, instructor and coordinator for the university's studio ensembles, 2006-present).


Following the performance will be a reception with an opportunity to purchase autographed copies of the artists' CD, Two Trains Too Many. For the complete Kent State Stark music events schedule, visit www.stark.kent.edu/music<http://www.stark.kent.edu/music>.



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