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Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series brings award-winning poet to 国产麻豆AV

Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series brings award-winning poet to 国产麻豆AV

Contact: Sarah Nicholas

Portrait of Derrick Harriell
Derrick Harriell (Photo submitted)

STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜cclaimed poet Derrick Harriell is the featured fall guest next Wednesday [Sept. 28] for Mississippi State鈥檚 Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.

Harriell will be reading from his new collection of poems 鈥淐ome Kingdom鈥 (LSU Press, 2022). Free to all, Harriell鈥檚 presentation begins at 5:30 p.m. in Mitchell Memorial Library鈥檚 John Grisham Room. A question-and-answer session and book signing will follow.

The Ottilie Schillig Associate Professor of English and African American Studies at the University of Mississippi, Harriell鈥檚 previous collections of poems include 鈥淪tripper in Wonderland鈥 (LSU Press, 2017), 鈥淐otton鈥 (Aquarius Press/Willow Books, 2010) and 鈥淩opes鈥 (Aquarius Press, 2013), winner of the 2014 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Book Award.

During his 国产麻豆AV visit, Harriell will speak with students in the Department of English Craft of Poetry class, taught by 国产麻豆AV Assistant Professor Saddiq Dzukogi.

The Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series was established through an endowment from Alice Carol Caldwell and family as a memorial to her late husband, an 国产麻豆AV professor of English who died in 2015. Caldwell was the founder and director of the university鈥檚 creative writing program, and he served as president and vice president of the Southern Literary Festival organization.

For additional information about Harriell鈥檚 campus visit and reading, contact Professor Becky Hagenston at聽bhagenston@english.msstate.edu.

Part of 国产麻豆AV鈥檚 College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of English is online at聽.

国产麻豆AV is Mississippi鈥檚 leading university, available online at聽.