John Sheehan, Cin Salach and Ten Tongues
Guild Complex
Come celebrate John Sheehan?s new book, Leaving Gary, the latest from our publishing wing Tia Chucha Press. After graduating from St. Michael?s College at the University of Toronto, John Sheehan was ordained a priest in 1948. he taught high school in Huston and Rochester before moving to Gary Indiana in 1968 to teach in the public schools.
11/14/1997 - 11/14/1997
In the 1980?s Sheehan joined the Chicago Poetry Ensemble, a group of writers who had a profound effect shaping performance poetry in Chicago and beyond. Written in an almost converse language, Leaving Gary jumps from a Huston of ice cream parlors and fried chicken in the twenties, to seminary life in Canada in the forties, and to teaching life today. He confronts issues of race and class, religion and landscape, memory and media, chronicling places which have disappeared and place we wish would disappear.
