Poetry Readings from Dr. Jacqueline Trimble
when
Sat, Sep 19, 1:30 PM – Sat, Sep 19, 2:00 PM
where
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts
One Museum Drive, Montgomery
price
free
Overview All Ages | Free Located in Wilson Auditorium Inspired by The American Worker exhibition, join us for a response to the art from Alabama Poet Laureate, Dr. Jacqueline A. Trimble. Registration not required. About Dr. Trimble Jacqueline Allen Trimble lives and writes in Montgomery, Alabama, where she is a Professor of English and the chairperson of Languages and Literatures at Alabama State University. She holds three degrees in English: the B.A. from Huntingdon College, and the M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Alabama. She is a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellow, a Cave Canem Fellow, and a two-time Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellow. American Happiness, her first poetry collection, American Happiness, won the Balcones Poetry Prize, and How to Survive the Apocalypse was named one of the ten best poetry books of 2022 by the New York Public Library. She has won several teaching and writing awards, including the Exemplary Teacher Award (for junior fac
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