Hypnagogia
Four Monologues
Red Shuttleworth
Hypnagogia, by Red Shuttleworh, is a Bunchgrass Press limited edition Bunchgrass Press chapbook presenting four monologues.
Dramatis Personae:
Wee Joe
(1964-1970)
Washington Bolivar Cloyes
(1830-1912)
Princess Vera Ligovskaya
(1815-1851)
Van Barney Hogan
(1842-1908)
Red Shuttleworth's poetry has been published widely. His most recent collection of poems, Woe to the Land Shadowing (Blue Horse Press), received the 2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Outstanding Poetry Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma. Shuttleworth is a three-time winner of the (Western Writers of America) Spur Award for Poetry. In 2007, True West magazine named Shuttleworth "Best Living Western Poet."
Red Shuttleworth's plays have been presented in both professional and academic venues, including at Sundance Playwrights Lab (1990 and 1994), the Sun Valley Festival of New Western Drama, SUNY-Fredonia, University of Nebraska at Kearney, and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.
Red Shuttleworth's High Plains Fandango, a play about the coming scarcity of water, is available as a book from Humanitas Media publishing.
Red Shuttleworth