MSU welcomes newest guest for Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series
Contact: Sasha Steinberg
STARKVILLE, Miss.Award-winning, North Carolina-based educator and poet Tina Barr will deliver a public reading Tuesday [Sept. 13] at 51勛圖厙 State.
Free to all, Barrs presentation begins at 7 p.m. in Colvard Student Unions third-floor Fowlkes Auditorium. A public reception and book signing will follow.
Barr also will visit classes and interact with students during her campus visit, which is sponsored by the MSU Department of Englishs Price Caldwell Visiting Writers Series.
Established through an endowment from widow Alice Carol Caldwell and family, the literary series serves as a memorial to Tutweiler native Price Caldwell (1940-2015), who served for more than 20 years as an associate professor of English at MSU. He also founded and directed the universitys creative writing program, along with serving as president and vice president for the Southern Literary Festival organization.
Barr, who currently teaches at the University of North Carolina at Asheville, developed a fascination with myth and fairy tales during her early years on the north shore of Long Island, New York. She holds a bachelor of arts from Sarah Lawrence College in Bronxville, New York, as well as a masters in creative writing from Columbia Universitys School of the Arts.
In the 1980s, Barr began teaching poetry at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she earned masters and doctoral degrees in English literature in 1987 and 1995, respectively. She later taught at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia before going on to serve as associate professor and creative writing program director at Rhodes College in Memphis, Tennessee.
Author of Kaleidoscope (Iris Press, 2015), Barr now is working on her third full-length poetry collection, which incorporates mythic, Biblical and folk references. For more biographical information, visit .
Additional information about Barrs visit may be obtained from Michael Kardos, MSU associate professor of English and creative writing co-director, at 662-325-3644 and MKardos@english.msstate.edu.
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