Registration
Danny Killion & Matthew Klane
07/31/2024 07:00 PM - 09:00 PM ET
Admission
- Free
Location
Adirondack Center for Writing
15 BROADWAY SL
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
15 BROADWAY SL
Saranac Lake, NY 12983
Summary
Wednesday, July 31, 7 PM - ACW - FREE
Danny Killion is a painter, sculptor, and small-business owner in Troy, NY. He makes art from Hudson River driftwood and other locally scavenged materials. His adoption into an evangelical family, wild childhood, adventures in bank robbing, subsequent 12-year incarceration, and post-prison life are documented in the unpublished manuscript Weathered Wood: Portrait of a Bank Robber (written with Matthew Klane).
Matthew Klane is co-founder of Flim Forum Press. He has an MA in Poetics from SUNY Buffalo and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His books of poetry include Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013), and B (Stockport Flats 2008). His e-chapbook From Of the Day is online at Delete Press, his e-book My is online at Fence Digital, and his chapbook Poetical Sketches is available from The Magnificent Field. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY.
Meet artist, small-business owner, and formerly incarcerated bank robber, Daniel Killion. In the mid-'90s, pre-consciously aware of "wage slavery" and "systemic racism," and after seeing the iconic film Point Break, he is inspired to rob banks. It's a romantic life-defining spree that ends in Danny (alias: Paul Blackman) inevitably getting "busted." We follow him into the correctional system where he serves 12 years in four distinct state and federal institutions. At age 50, he's free, but embroiled in a dispute with local police, a few months into the pandemic, while BLM protests surge. Sans regret, himself as ever, Danny's here to tell you his crazy story and what he's learned about creativity, society, and the prison system.
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Danny Killion is a painter, sculptor, and small-business owner in Troy, NY. He makes art from Hudson River driftwood and other locally scavenged materials. His adoption into an evangelical family, wild childhood, adventures in bank robbing, subsequent 12-year incarceration, and post-prison life are documented in the unpublished manuscript Weathered Wood: Portrait of a Bank Robber (written with Matthew Klane).
Matthew Klane is co-founder of Flim Forum Press. He has an MA in Poetics from SUNY Buffalo and an MFA in Poetry from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. His books of poetry include Canyons (w/ James Belflower, Flimb Press 2016), Che (Stockport Flats 2013), and B (Stockport Flats 2008). His e-chapbook From Of the Day is online at Delete Press, his e-book My is online at Fence Digital, and his chapbook Poetical Sketches is available from The Magnificent Field. He currently lives and writes in Albany, NY.
Meet artist, small-business owner, and formerly incarcerated bank robber, Daniel Killion. In the mid-'90s, pre-consciously aware of "wage slavery" and "systemic racism," and after seeing the iconic film Point Break, he is inspired to rob banks. It's a romantic life-defining spree that ends in Danny (alias: Paul Blackman) inevitably getting "busted." We follow him into the correctional system where he serves 12 years in four distinct state and federal institutions. At age 50, he's free, but embroiled in a dispute with local police, a few months into the pandemic, while BLM protests surge. Sans regret, himself as ever, Danny's here to tell you his crazy story and what he's learned about creativity, society, and the prison system.