This June, students in the program were able to meet for group lessons in Carrier Lodge in three groups, beginners, intermediate, and ensemble. All three groups met for four days. The beginners and intermediate students practiced their Suzuki repertoire and worked on note reading skills. The ensemble students worked on new pieces, including Mission Impossible, which after only four days was beginning to sound pretty good, especially since it was recorded on Miss Diane’s phone!
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I am a poet, translator, and professor of literature and creative writing at Mississippi University for Women, where I direct the Low-Residency MFA in Creative Writing, the undergraduate concentration in creative writing, and the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium. I am Chair of the Department of Languages, Literature, and Philosophy, and I have published four collections of poetry, Tree Fall with Birdsong, Barrier Island Suite, Time Capsules, and Landscapes and Architectures, as well as a collection of translations of the Belgian poet Paul Snoek, Hercules, Richelieu, and Nostradamus, and the textbook A Writer's Craft: Multi-Genre Creative Writing. I was born and raised in Osage, Iowa, and have lived for over thirty years in Columbus, Mississippi, where my wife Kim and I let wildflowers grow in our yard to the delight of spring polinators and only some of our neighbors.
Suzuki Strings of Columbus, Mississippi 