How Things Were; How Things Are

HOW THINGS WERE; HOW THINGS ARE contains poems, notes and musings about personal histories, relationships, allegory, certain geographies and social commentaries. The words recount times from the nineteen-forties to the present.

Terry Melton is a painter, printmaker and writer. He has work in seven museum collections and has shown in more than fifty exhibitions. He was Director of the Yellowstone Art Museum, the C.M. Russell Museum and the McAllen International Museum. He was also Executive Director of the Oregon Arts Commission, the Western States Arts Federation and has Regional Representative for the National Endowment for the Arts. He has had occasional poetry published and has written essays for numerous exhibition catalogs.