Abbott Ikeler and Mignon Ariel King
Tuesday, May 19, 2009, at 7:30 p.m.
Abbott Ikeler is the author of the poetry collection Outpost (Ibbetson Press 2007) Ikeler, a Harvard graduate, with a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, has taught literature and writing at Bowdoin College, the University of Muenster, and Rhode Island College before joining the corporate world. His academic credits include a Senior Fulbright Fellowship, a book on nineteenth-century aesthetics, and numerous articles on Victorian literature. He currently teaches Public Relations and Advertising at Emerson College in Boston, Mass.
Mignon Ariel King was born in Boston City Hospital in 1964. She grew up in Roxbury, Massachusetts and has always lived in Greater Boston. An alumna of both Boston (Girls') Latin Academy and Simmons College (for Women), she proudly identifies as a middle-aged Black and multicultural woman writer.
Ms. King began writing poetry at age 11; was an adjunct English instructor for roughly a decade; and has been reading at open mics since 1998. She is currently working on the novella which will complete an autobiographical trilogy-in-progress (fiction, memoir, poetry). Her first collection of poetry, The Woods Have Words, is a tribute to the urban, natural, and literary influences on the poet's work.