Catching Up With Kevin McKelvey (MFA '04)

Some news from Kevin McKelvey, MFA '04:

"I just completed two weeks as Artist-in-Residence at Isle Royale National
Park in the middle of Lake Superior http://www.nps.gov/isro . In exchange
for a cabin and canoe, I gave one program a week, and I will submit a piece
of work within a year. The archipelago was an amazing place to experience
past human cultures and a pristine ecotone between northern hardwood forests
and boreal forest, which leads to the kind of poems I like to write. Jnan
Blau and Dawn Janke, friends of the MFA program, teach at Michigan Technical
University in Houghton, MI, where the Park is headquartered, and told me
about the program. Check out other Park Service properties with
Artists-in-Residence at http://www.nps.gov/archive/volunteer/air.htm

And last fall, I spent a week east of Eugene, Oregon, at the HJ Andrews
Experimental Forest as a Resident of the Spring Creek Project of Oregon
State University. I'm still trying to comprehend the 500 year-old firs, and
I need to to contribute to their Long-Term Ecological Reflections Project.
I'm also still trying to comprehend why Adrian Matejka couldn't get me to
the airport on time. http://springcreek.oregonstate.edu/"

Congrats on all the different gigs, Kevin!