MONROE - The Monroe Arts Center will continue its 2011 Writers Series with a free presentation by Wisconsin author Michael Perry at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 21.
Perry is the second of three writers to be featured in this series.
Perry is a humorist and author of the best-selling memoirs "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time," "Truck: A Love Story," and "Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting," as well as the essay collection, "Off Main Street."
Perry has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion, and Salon.com, and is a contributing editor to Men's Health. He has performed and produced two live audience humor recordings ("I Got It From the Cows" and "Never Stand Behind a Sneezing Cow") and he performs regularly with his band, the Long Beds. Perry lives in rural Wisconsin, where he remains active with the local volunteer rescue service.
Raised on a small dairy farm, Perry equates his writing career to cleaning calf pens. "Just keep shoveling, and eventually you've got a pile so big, someone will notice," he said.
Perry's biography includes graduating from nursing school, working five summers on a ranch in Wyoming, running a forklift, operating a backhoe, driving a truck and working as a physical therapy aide. His varied background also includes working for a surgeon, answering a suicide hotline, and working as a country music roadie in Switzerland and as a roller-skating Snoopy.
This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Chuck Wellington, president of the MAC Foundation board of directors, will host the series.
For additional information MAC events, call (608) 325-5700 or visit www.monroeartscenter.com.
Monroe Arts Center events are underwritten by corporate underwriter Colony Brands, Inc., and media underwriters Monroe Publishing, LLC, and Big Radio.
Perry is the second of three writers to be featured in this series.
Perry is a humorist and author of the best-selling memoirs "Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time," "Truck: A Love Story," and "Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting," as well as the essay collection, "Off Main Street."
Perry has written for Esquire, The New York Times Magazine, Outside, Backpacker, Orion, and Salon.com, and is a contributing editor to Men's Health. He has performed and produced two live audience humor recordings ("I Got It From the Cows" and "Never Stand Behind a Sneezing Cow") and he performs regularly with his band, the Long Beds. Perry lives in rural Wisconsin, where he remains active with the local volunteer rescue service.
Raised on a small dairy farm, Perry equates his writing career to cleaning calf pens. "Just keep shoveling, and eventually you've got a pile so big, someone will notice," he said.
Perry's biography includes graduating from nursing school, working five summers on a ranch in Wyoming, running a forklift, operating a backhoe, driving a truck and working as a physical therapy aide. His varied background also includes working for a surgeon, answering a suicide hotline, and working as a country music roadie in Switzerland and as a roller-skating Snoopy.
This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required. Chuck Wellington, president of the MAC Foundation board of directors, will host the series.
For additional information MAC events, call (608) 325-5700 or visit www.monroeartscenter.com.
Monroe Arts Center events are underwritten by corporate underwriter Colony Brands, Inc., and media underwriters Monroe Publishing, LLC, and Big Radio.