Joe Cyr

High-school dropout Joe Cyr capped off a thirty-year navy career, including a four-year engineering scholarship at Purdue University and a Master of Science degree, as assistant professor Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey. Joe’s experience spawned a creative period: published poet, song lyricist in all genres, librettist, playwright, author of many books from children’s stories, the series The Math Tutor’s Friend, stage plays, musicals and even erotic poetry. His play NHÀ

is based on duty in wartime Saigon, Vietnam. Visit his website joe-cyr.com. Get there by searching for “Plainfield Polka” or “Joe Cyr.” Try it!