Christine Perrin & Ted Prescott

Ted Prescott: Small Sacrifice 

 
Wish

by Christine Perrin 

There is a sculpture I have hung on my wall—
 a steel trap with two tiny bones set in its jaw, 
for which a fox or mink had to gnaw its foreleg off.

The artist, my friend, found the death instrument 
and mounted it like a wish—for the animal in the teeth 
of mercy and instinct to break free of itself.

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Christine Perrin holds a B.A. in Writing Seminars from Johns Hopkins University and an M.F.A. (Master of Fine Arts) from the University of Maryland, where she concentrated in poetry. Christine has taught literature and poetry at Johns Hopkins University and Messiah College, as well as the Gordon in Orvieto program. She has also taught poetry at various K-12 schools, teaching at every level and consults with schools on literature curricula. Christine has published many poems in publications such as Image Magazine, The Sewanee Review, TriQuarterly, Christianity and Literature, The New England Review and many others.  She has twice received fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council for the Arts and from Bread Loaf Writer’s Conference.

Theodore Prescott is a sculptor and writer who lives and works near Harrisburg PA. Prescott received a B.A. in Art from The Colorado College and an M.F.A. from the Rinehart School of Sculpture at MICA. He has exhibited in the United States and Western Europe, completed several public commissions, and has work in public and private collections. In 1980 Prescott began the art major at Messiah College in Grantham, PA. By the end of his tenure at the school the program had grown to 125 students in three majors, with 7 full time and 3 part time faculty. He chaired the art program for a decade, and was the recipient of two successive 5 year terms as a Distinguished Professor of Art. He is currently an Emeritus Professor of Art at the college.