Portland State Magazine Spring 2016

SPRING 2016 pORTLAND STATE MAGAZINE 9 New Works DESOLATION CD by Andrew Endres (BM ’14) Collective, self-released, 2015 SHAME ON THE MOON: UNLEASHING THE PAST, A MEMOIR By Paul Dean Jackson ’78, Biblio Publishing, 2015 THE LOST JOURNALS OF SYLVIA PLATH: A novel By Kimberly Knutsen ’92, Switchgrass Books, 2015 HAUNTING THE PAST: HISTORY, MEMORY, DREAMS, AND THE REFLECTIONS OF A DYING HISTORIAN By Joseph W. Laythe MA ’92, CreateSpace, 2016 TO THE TABLE: A SPIRITUALITY OF FOOD, FARMING AND COMMUNITY By Lisa Graham McMinn MS ’92, PhD ’95, Brazos Press, 2016 GROWING UP WITH G.I. JOE’S By Janna Orkney (attended in the ’60s and ’80s), Columbia Press, 2016 MAKING THE WHITE MAN’S WEST: WHITENESS AND THE CREATION OF THE AMERICAN WEST By Jason E. Pierce MA ’00, University Press of Colorado, 2016 PLEDGES OF HONOR: GODDESS’S HONOR BOOK ONE By Joyce Reynolds-Ward MS ’05, CreateSpace, 2016 GOOD BEAST By Andrew Michael Roberts ’04, Burnside Review Books, 2015 f a n f a r e DO DAIRY farmers allow Bossie to graze green pastures or do they keep her penned-up, factory style? What most urbanites know about the dairy industry could fill a thimble. Jan Haaken, professor emeritus of psychology, dispels the myths of dairy farming and explores the pressures these farmers face in her newest documen- tary, Milk Men: The Life and Times of Dairy Farmers . Haaken has produced or directed six feature-length films that explore the lives of people who work or live on the social margins: war zones, refugee camps, drag clubs and mental hospitals. Her films detail the complex humanity of her subjects and give audiences an insider’s view to their lives. Eight PSU students were involved in all aspects of production for Milk Men , which will screen July 18 in Portland on the opening night of a Northwest Film Center program on ethical issues in farming. View a trailer at milkmenmovie.com.  Dairy farmer documentary