Combat Poets of Maya Hold Reading

Characters from Bill Johnson's novel The Combat Poets Of Maya will read from the book while Bill signs copies on Friday, December 17th at the Collins View Performance Center, 318 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, from 7:00 - 9 p.m

(PRWEB) November 22, 2004 -- Characters from Bill Johnson's novel The Combat Poets Of Maya will read from the book while Bill signs copies on Friday, December 17th at the Collins View Performance Center, 318 SW Palatine Hill Road, Portland, from 7:00 - 9 p.m. Share some refreshments and hear excerpts from his fast-paced story about a war between a colony of irrepressible artists and repressed bureaucrats.

Johnson describes the book as a project inspired and begun years ago, during a time when he was literally immersed within the fringe literary scene; sleeping on a foam mat in the back of a restaurant that hosted readings attended by some names that have become synonymous with "street poetry."

Populated by a host of colorful characters that slip blithely from high-tech battle gear to battling each other for a chance to share their latest prose and lusty obsessions, The Combat Poets of Maya dances the light-years fantastic while asking some age-old questions: What is art? And is art necessary to the human condition?

Set on a planet that's a fulcrum in the struggle between the stringent control of hierarchy and the necessary anarchy of free expression, Combat Poets of Maya mischievously delights in the lack of solid answers, using memorable characters within a stream of wry, fast-paced scenes to bring us to a resolution we would be fortunate to realize here on Earth.

This is the first published novel by Bill Johnson, a writer well established within the Northwest as a story analyst, screenwriting teacher, and non-fiction author of A Story Is A Promise; a book other writers swear by for understanding the essentials of good storytelling. He's taught at a number of writing cconferences around the country, and will be teaching fiction through the University of California - San Diego Extension in the winter of 2005.

To see drawings of the characters from Combat Poets, visit www.combatpoetsofmaya.com.

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