Check out this article from the University of Denver Magazine from Winter 2009 on Arda Collins’ belief on the importance of poetry. Ask Arda Collins why poetry is important, and the acclaimed poet will be the first to admit it’s not a popular genre that will ever “fly off the Read more
Only three weeks until the 40th Annual Agnes Scott College Writers’ Festival! This semester I’m taking Fiction Workshop and I’m really excited to be reading Danzy Senna’s Caucasia. I haven’t finished it yet, but I’m loving it so far and I’ll keep you updated when it is finished! On an Read more
The Rumpus website features this great interview with Danzy Senna about her work. In addition, this article includes a review of her work, Where did you sleep last night? “We are all students of memory. Each of us has our own truth to tell…” Danzy Senna is the author of Read more
Each Festival, I like to solicit the English Department Professors into telling me stories about previous Festivals that they have attended, and I always learn the most interesting/thrilling/beautiful things about the personalities of visiting authors. Dr. Peggy Thompson, Ellen Douglass Leyburn Professor of English/Chair of the Department, shared with me this Read more
We’re already at the middle of February — can you believe it? I hope you’ve picked up your ticket for Jennifer Nettles’ Reading or the Author Q&A at the Alston Information Desk. If you haven’t, you should do it soon! This year, Arda Collins will be our visiting poet, and Read more
I hope that some of you made it out to the Tony Morris reading that was this evening! As we approach the Writers’ Festival, I wanted to share another event that’s happening at Agnes Scott. Scott Newstok will be speaking at Agnes Scott on February 22nd, at 7pm in Rebekah Read more
Thursday, February 10th at 7pm, Poet Tony Morris will be reading in the Agnes Scott College Fireplace Lounge in the Alston Student Center. Please come out and enjoy this wonderful reading. Professor Morris’s first book of poems, Fugue’s End won the 2004 Mary Belle Campbell Poetry Book Award, Read more
For those of you who don’t know, there will be two ticketed events at the Writers’ Festival this year. The first is the Reading-Performance by Jennifer Nettles in Presser Hall on Thursday, March 31st at 8pm. The second is the Q & A with Jennifer Nettles, Danzy Senna, and Arda Read more
Arda Collins’s collection of poems, It Is Daylight, won the 2008 Yale Series of Younger Poets prize. Judge Louise Gluck describes the volume as “a book of astonishing originality and intensity, unprecedented, unrepeatable.” Her poems have recently appeared in The New Yorker, American Poetry Reviewand A Public Space. A former Glenn Schaeffer Fellow at Read more
I just finished updating the look of the site with the publicity poster that we’re using this year. What do you think? Want to see the whole thing? I think it looks great! Today is the first day of the Spring semester which means the Writers’ Festival is going Read more
