Ensemble performed at First United Methodist Church in Columbus on April 22 for the Keenager Luncheon. Pictured are (back row from left) Diane Ford, Laura Sandifer, Patti Gildea, Aidan Dunkelberg, Lucy Sandifer, Hope Bassett, Jessica Smith, (front row from left) Trudy Gildea, Jan Atkins, Cassie James, Abbey Swartzendruber, Gracie Swartzendruber, and Scott Sandifer.
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 