Author, Playwright, Editor, Publisher
Just Buffalo teaching artist MICHAEL ALLEN POTTER holds degrees in playwriting and nonfiction from San Francisco State University and from The University of Iowa, respectively. He is the author of The Last Invisible Continent and founder of The Hydroelectric Press.
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By Michael Allen Potter
The Last Invisible Continent: Essays on Adoption and Identity
These twelve essays span nearly twenty years of research and activism that chronicle one man’s search for his family. Together, they explore the concept of personal identity from the perspective of someone who was erased completely by adoption in The State of New York.
“The Last Invisible Continent is an important book, a superb mixing of the personal and the political.”
—The Columbus Free Press
Adoptionland: From Orphans to Activists
Ever wondered what it’s like to be adopted? This anthology begins with personal accounts and then shifts to a bird’s eye view on adoption from domestic, intercountry and transracial adoptees who are now adoptee rights activists. Along with adopted people, this collection also includes the voices of mothers and a father from the Baby Scoop Era, a modern-day mother who almost lost her child to adoption, and ends with the experience of an adoption investigator from Against Child Trafficking. These stories are usually abandoned by the very industry that professes to work for the “best interest of children,” “child protection,” and for families. However, according to adopted people who were scattered across nations as children, these represent typical human rights issues that have been ignored for too long. For many years, adopted people have just dealt with such matters alone, not knowing that all of us—as a community—have a great deal in common.
ANONYMOUS: A One-Act Play
ANONYMOUS is a one-act play in which two gay men who have both lost long-time lovers in different ways arrive at mutual attraction in the waiting room of an AIDS clinic. Both have returned for their respective HIV-antibody tests, neither one thinking that he would encounter “someone special” in the midst of such overwhelming personal anxiety and stress.
ANONYMOUS had its East-Coast premiere during the Playwright’s Showcase at Albany Civic Theater in New York and made its West-Coast debut as the inaugural production for The Alchemy Project at The Jon Sims Center for the Performing Arts in California. It received an Emerging Playwrights Award from Artists Alliance Against AIDS in San Francisco and an early draft was published in Art & Understanding Magazine.
“ANONYMOUS is just terrific.”
—Paul Rudnick
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