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<p class="NoParagraphStyle" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:120%;color:#003A77">Poetic and musical collaboration performed by Kent State University at Stark faculty</span></b><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;line-height:120%"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="NoParagraphStyle" style="line-height:115%"><i><span style="color:black">Two Trains Too Many</span></i><span style="color:black"> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">Miltner<b>
</b>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
<i>Diagram</i>,<i> Pleiades</i>,<i> Potomac</i>,<i> Sentence</i>,<i> Octopus</i>,<i> Perigee</i>,<i> Bellingham Review</i>,<i> Storyglossia</i>,<i> Istanbul Literary Review</i>,<i> Barn Owl Review</i>,<i> New York Quarterly</i>,<i> Barrow Street</i>,<i> Journal
of the Short Story in English</i>,<i> Christmas Stories from Ohio </i>(KSU Press),
<i>Ordering the Storm </i>(CSU Press),<i> </i>and <i>Field Guide to Prose Poetry </i>
(Rose Metal Press). He is the author of several chapbooks of poetry, including <i>
Rock the Boat</i>,<i> A Box of Light</i>,<i> Queen Mab and the Moon Boy </i>and <i>
Against the Simple</i>,<i> </i>which won a Wick Chapbook Award (KSU Press). <i>Hotel Utopia</i>, 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, <i>Raymond Carver Review </i>and the literary journal,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";color:black">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>I Will Find My Own Way</i>, is currently in heavy rotation on Sirius/XM’s
<i>Coffee House</i> station. From 2004-09, he was the staff guitarist at Akron’s Carousel Dinner Theater with credits, including
<i>Cats</i>, <i>Always… Patsy Cline</i>, <i>SWING!</i>, <i>Beehive</i> and <i>All Shook Up</i>. 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 <i>Grease</i>, 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).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="NoParagraphStyle" style="line-height:115%"><span style="color:black">Following the performance will be a reception with an opportunity to purchase autographed copies of the artists’ CD,
<i>Two Trains Too Many</i>. For the complete Kent State Stark music events schedule, visit
</span><span style="color:#0000CC"><a href="http://www.stark.kent.edu/music"><span style="color:#0000CC">www.stark.kent.edu/music</span></a></span><span style="color:black">.
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