Congratulations to Daniel Jones (one of our former members, who now has a student in our program) for being named first chair and concert master of the Mississippi All-State Orchestra!
Congratulations to all of our students who will be performing with the All-State Orchestra, April 10-11. On violin Abby Swartzendruber, Gracie Swartzendruber, Aidan Dunkelberg, and Hope Bassett. And on cello, Scott Sandifer, who will be 2nd chair Assistant Cello. Congratulations Scott and congratulations all on your hard work with auditions (while preparing for Music Festival).
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 