Our year begins this week!
Tuesday 8/30
- Orchestra — 3:45 – 4:45
- Parent Meeting — 4:45-5:15
- Ensemble — 5:15-5:45
Thursday 9/1
- Violin Play-In 4:00-4:40
- Parent Meeting — 4:45-
Please attend one of the Parent Meetings. Suzuki Program dues ($45.00 per Family) and Fall Semester Fees for Orchestra ($65 per student) or for Orchestra and Ensemble ($90 per student), will be collected along with Registration Forms.
Private Lessons: Students and families, please check with your school teachers to see if there is a time during the day you can have a violin lesson. Ford students will begin private lessons after Labor Day. Diane will get in touch mid August to set up her teaching schedule.
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 