Macaw: Creative Writing & Latin America: Macaw 1981

Bruce Dean Willis

is Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature at The University of Tulsa. His research and publications focus on diverse aspects of poetry and performance, and expressions of Indigenous and African cultures, in Latin American literature, particularly Brazil, Chile, and Mexico.

TIME FOR CHOCOLATE is available for purchase through One Act Play Depot! A brief description:

An intoxicating evening of music, poetry, and chocolate... in pre-conquest Mexico!
Based on a fifteenth-century dialogue among nobles schooled in rhetoric and philosophy, the play pits father against son in a war of words over the power and beauty of artistic expression.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Macaw 1981

I knew it was around here somewhere, and I finally found it: a colored chalk drawing of a scarlet macaw that I made in eighth-grade art class thirty years ago!

Somewhere around here I may still have crayon drawings I made of more generic "parrots" when I was even younger. Evidently I've been nurturing a lifelong interest in psittacine coloration.