White Water, Red Walls

"Carol McMillan's Grand Canyon poems take us on a journey of gentle reflection and precipitous adventure, filling each moment with wonder." - Jim Milstead, the Bard of Bellingham "Carol McMillan may ... invite levity into the lives of friends and acquaintances, but it is the grit of her words; deep, warm, hard, strong, riveting words; that will take you inward. Hold her book in your palms and breathe the Grand Canyon as experienced by a poet adventuress. If you don't have the courage (like me) to take such a journey, know that McMillan has done it for you. Her book is full of the raw experience of raging white water, towering red walls and rarely seen sunsets. McMillan includes her photographs and paintings. I am in awe of the writer as well as the scenery." - CJ Prince, author of Mother, May I?

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CAROL MCMILLAN, PhD, is an anthropologist who loves language. She started writing poetry as soon as she could form sentences on a sheet of blank paper. Soon after college, Carol joined an entomology expedition camping across the southern half of Africa. For her dissertation research in the 1980s, she lived in Puerto Rico with free-ranging rhesus monkeys for half a year. Carol moved to Washington State as a community college teacher and worked with the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation's language preservation program for many years.Carol has had scientific articles published in professional anthropology journals, and her prose and poetry have been published in various anthologies. She was a 2013 recipient of the Sue C. Boynton Poetry Merit Award. Her book, White Water, Red Walls, documents-in poetry, paintings, and photographs-a rafting journey down the Grand Canyon. She currently lives in Waimea on the Big Island.