Snakes in the Sass - Book of poetry by Lynn Veach Sadler - Humor

Nov. 5, 2011 - PRLog -- About the author:

Mary Lynn Veach Sadler

         (Dr.) Lynn Veach Sadler grew up in the Friendship community near Warsaw (Duplin County), where her family still runs Veach Lumber Company.  She attended Warsaw schools through her junior year and was graduated from Sanford Central High School as Co-Valedictorian with Eddie Mendenhall.  Her husband, Dr. Emory Sadler, a psychologist, is a native of Kenansville (also in Duplin County). They have traveled around the world five times, with Lynn writing all the way.

         Lynn has a B.A. (Magna Cum Laude, Honors, Phi Beta Kappa) from Duke and an M.A. and a Ph.D. (Phi Kappa Phi) from the University of Illinois, with postdoctoral study at UCLA and Balliol College, Oxford.  She taught at Agnes Scott College, Drake University, and A&T State University and was Director of the Division of Humanities at Bennett College, where she set up what is thought to be the first microcomputer laboratory in the country for teaching writing.  She pioneered in computer-assisted composition, coined the term, and published the first journal in the field (done with desktop publishing).  
As Vice President of Academic Affairs at Methodist College, she originated the first conference on academic computing in North Carolina.  She was formerly a college president in Vermont.  She has won an Extraordinary Undergraduate Teaching Award and received a civil rights award from Methodist College’s Black Student Movement; the Distinguished Women of North Carolina Award for education (1992); and the Paul Jehu Barringer, Jr. and Sr., Award for Exceptional Service to the History of the State from the North Carolina Society of Historians (2004).  She was Visiting Distinguished Scholar in the “Educational Leadership for a Competitive America” seminar of the United States Office of Personnel Management (1992), presented at the First International Milton Symposium in England, and was Director of a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College Teachers on “The Novel of Slave Unrest” held at Bennett College.  One of her former Bennett students was responsible for her 2010 selection for the National Women’s Hall of Fame.  Her academic publications include five books and some sixty-eight articles, and she has edited nineteen books/proceedings and three national journals.  She edits Footnotes, the journal of the Duplin County Historical Society, and writes the column “Sadler (But Wiser)” [on Lee County history] for the on-line newspaper, Lee County Star-Tribune [http://lee.countync.us/columnists]. Lynn now works full-time as a creative writer and an editor.  


Excerpt from the Backword [sic]  

         When Aquillrelle Press approached me about submitting a volume of some two hundred pages of poetry for consideration, I blithely asked, “Anything you’re particularly interested in? I’ve done 1100+ poems on many, many topics. War? World? Humor?” The immediate response was the last. Was this a joke? No one publishes humor! Hey, to bring out two hundred pages of any kind of poetry is amazing in its own right. Do these guys know I pass as a scholar and a Milton one at that? (Milton intimidates many.) Do these guys know I was a college president? You don’t get by with much humor in that field either.

         I’m married to the punster of punsters. When I told him I had to do this foreword, he said, faster than I could blink/think, “In this case of humor, you should call it a ‘backword.’” So, a “backword” it is, siced/sicked to attest to my academic credentials.

         Hey, overnight, roughly, I’m a “humor poet.” My experience with this press has taken me from incredulity to delight—in its efficiency, agreeableness, willingness to “work with” . . .

         To date, I’ve never had a better publishing experience.  And that’s no joke.


Product Details

ISBN           978-1-105-21101-0
Copyright    Lynn Veach Sadler (Standard Copyright License)
Publisher    Aquillrelle
Published    November 4, 2011
Language    English
Pages            232
   
Binding            Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink    Black & white
Dimensions (inches)    5.8 wide × 8.3 tall

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