Welty Symposium Keynote
Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter HallFeaturing: Katy Simpson Smith, The Weedsfollowed by a reception and book signing with all symposium authors Watch Live
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Reading
Welty Symposium Friday AM
Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter HallFeatured authors:9:00 Lee Durkee, Stalking Shakespeare9:40 Maurice Carlos Ruffin, The Ones Who Don’t Say They Love You10:30 De’Shawn Charles Winslow, Decent People11:10 K. Iver, Short Film Starring My Beloved’s Red Bronco all times are approximate except our start time Watch Live
Welty Symposium Friday PM
Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter HallFeatured Authors:1:30 Ann Fisher-Wirth, Paradise is Jagged2:10 Halle Hill, Good Women: Stories2:50 Claude Wilkinson, Soon Done with the Crosses3:30 Ephemera Prize:Georgia BaileyEmelia BosargeAnthony Bradley,Ava Grace NoeIris Xue All times approximate except our start time Watch Live
Welty Symposium Saturday AM
Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter HallFeatured Authors:9:30 Ethel Morgan Smith, Path to Grace: Reimagining the Civil Rights Movement10:10 Christie Collins, The Art of Coming Undone11:00 Ellen Ann Fentress, The Steps We Take11:40 Exodus Brownlow, I’m Afraid That I Know Too Much About Myself Now, to Go Back to Who I Knew Before, and Oh Lord, Who Will I Be After […]
StarWound Concert
Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium in Poindexter HallThe Anglophone Music Group StarWound from Greece will perform new songs in collaboration with prominent poetry professors and students of five distinguished universities in Florida, Georgia, Mississippi and Alabama, including the poem “Orpheus” by Dr. Kendall Dunkelberg. “Interiors” represents StarWound’s survey on the lyrics of contemporary US-based poets. The goal is to provide musical accompaniment […]
Forum Series: Margaret Renkl
Nissan Auditorium – Parkinson HallMargaret Renkl Author of The Comfort of Crows In The Comfort of Crows, bestselling author Margaret Renkl presents fifty-two chapters that follow the creatures and plants in her backyard over the course of a year. As she takes us through the seasons, she introduces us to both joy at the ongoing pleasures of the natural […]
Fant Memorial Library Speaker Event: Alesha Judkins, fwd.us Mississippi State Director, Criminal Justice Reform
Gail P. Gunter Multi-Purpose RoomFrom National Crisis to Local Impact: Examining Mass Incarceration and Criminal Justice Reform in the Magnolia State.