Good luck to all who are practicing and getting ready for this weekend’s Music Festival!
It will be at the First Baptist Church in Columbus. You should have received a schedule with your performance time already. Enter through the Visitor’s door.
Don’t forget to pick your Theory sheet up from Diane Ford before you go to the Sanctuary to take the test.
Also, please remember to bring a snack for the judges, if you can!
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.