Thursday, September 18 | 7:00 p.m. | Corvallis-Benton County Public Library
Sean Davis is a visual artist whose new memoir published by Ooligan Press, The Wax Bullet War, chronicles his experiences in the Iraq War shortly after 9/11. This new memoir cuts through politics and party lines to explore the ugliness of war and therestorative beauty of art. Follow Sean as he discovers the oddities of a pop-up American a hostile desert wasteland; loses his best friend in a violent ambush; returns, critically wounded, to confinement in a place that’s not his home; deals with the fallout of PTSD and the horror of what he experienced in that war zone; and, finally, as he rediscovers art and its power to heal.
Davis’s reading will take place at 7:00pm on Thursday, September 18th, 2014 at the Corvallis-Benton County Public Library (645 NW Monroe Ave, Corvallis, OR 97330) in the Main Meeting Room. This appearance is part of a national tour that has included stops in Washington, California, Idaho, Utah, Michigan, and Wisconsin, with many more locations in the Northwest still to come.
Sean Davis holds an MFA in writing from Pacific University, and is currently an adjunct writing teacher for colleges around the Portland area. He is a regular contributor to Nailed Magazine and The Good Men Project. He also works in theater: he has produced, acted, and written for the stage, and is currently working on The Canticle of the Black Madonna, a new opera featuring veterans which premiered in Portland on September 4th. His paintings currently hang in the Six Days Gallery in the Alberta Arts District in Portland. In addition to creative pursuits, Sean does volunteer work on outreach and support for homecoming veterans, including The Telling Project.
Ooligan Press is a nonprofit trade press staffed by the students of Portland State University’s master’s program in book publishing. Students at in the program study all aspects of the publishing industry under the guidance of professional faculty and staff, producing high quality books that reflect the rich literary tradition of the Pacific Northwest.
For more information, please contact the library at 541-766-6793. A hearing loop system is available in the Main Meeting Room. If any member of the public has a disability and needs accommodations to attend this event, please call 541-766-6928, allowing 48 hours notice for this service.