Welty Southern Studies Professor Ralph Eubanks Presents Lecture at Millsaps April 7
A public lecture entitled “Mississippi, Past and Present” was delivered by W. Ralph Eubanks, Eudora Welty Professor of Southern Studies at Millsaps College, at the college’s Gertrude C. Ford Academic Center on April 7. Prof. Eubanks discussed how teaching at Millsaps has been a lesson in separating the past from the present as well as seeing connections between […] Read more »
Annual Spring Plant Sale Features Welty Garden Daylilies and Irises
A popular Spring event, the annual plant sale benefitting the Welty Garden was held Friday, April 15 from noon until 6 p.m. Featured this year were divisions of daylilies and irises from the Welty Garden. Other perennials were also available for purchase. (Photographs here are courtesy of Susan Haltom, historic Welty Garden consultant.) Download the plant sale flier here. […] Read more »
Poet Rosanna Warren Headlines Second Bettye Jolly Lecture
Rosanna Warren, acclaimed poet and distinguished faculty member at the University of Chicago, shared selections from her poetry and personal reminiscences as the guest artist for the 2016 Bettye Jolly Lecture, sponsored by the Eudora Welty Foundation, on March 21 in the Garden at the Eudora Welty House. Suzanne Marrs, Welty Foundation Scholar-in-Residence and emerita professor […] Read more »
Natasha Trethewey Speaks at Millsaps Public Program, Teacher Workshop February 19; Katy Simpson Smith Joined Public Program
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Natasha Trethewey made a special appearance at Millsaps College on Friday, February 19, for Friday Forum, a public program, at in the Recital Hall of the Gertrude C. Ford Academic Complex. The nation’s Poet Laureate in 2012-14, Trethewey is the Robert W. Woodruff Professor of English and Creative Writing at Emory University and is currently Mississippi’s […] Read more »