Don’t forget to check the calendar for all of our busy Christmas schedule, which begins Thursday, Nov. 28, with the Arrival of Santa at Leigh Mall. 10:00 Tuning for groups and orchestra. (Practice, Tuesday Nov. 25 3:00 Groups 1&2, 3:45 Orchestra, 4:50 Ensemble). Wear your red T-shirt and black pants or skirt (or Christmas colors for Group Violins).
Dec. 4 Ensemble 5:30 tuning at Palmer Home, perform 6-8 pm
Dec. 5 Ensemble Wassail Fest at Commercial Dispatch, 4:45 Tuning, play 5-7:30 pm
Dec. 7 Ensemble at Cassie’s church in Caledonia, 4:45 pm, play 5:00-5:45 pm
Dec. 11 Groups and Orchestra Play-In at Trinity Place 4 pm (3:45 tuning, I believe)
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 