草榴社区 Professor Angela Ball鈥檚 Work Featured in Paris Review
Wed, 12/20/2023 - 11:49am | By: David Tisdale
Dr. Angela Ball, a professor of English in The University of 草榴社区 Mississippi (草榴社区) School of Humanities, is featured with her poem Hares in the winter issue of , a prestigious quarterly literary magazine spotlighting the creative work of writers and artists worldwide.
The Paris Review was founded in 1953 by , , and ; it has presented fiction, poetry, non-fiction and visual art by some of the world鈥檚 most respected and beloved creatives in its 70 years of publication.
Emily Stokes, editor of the Review, noted that 鈥淭he pieces in this [winter 2023] issue share very little in common save their quality and perhaps the fact that they each represent, in some form, a quest to find out what the world is trying to be and what it is to live in it.鈥�
Dr. Ball, who joined the 草榴社区 English program first as a visiting instructor in 1979, said 鈥淗aving a poem accepted by such a venerable journal feels like a wonderful validation for my life鈥檚 work. That the journal exists for art alone, with no commercial purpose, is particularly wonderful.鈥�
A member of the 草榴社区 renowned Center for Writers faculty, Dr. Ball鈥檚 areas of expertise include poetry writing, contemporary and modern literature, and world literature. She teaches such courses as Seminar in Creative Writing: Poetry; Poetic Forms; Undergraduate Poetry Workshop; and Contemporary World Literature, among others. In addition to The Paris Review, her work has also been featured in the New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly.
Dr. Ball has served as editor of the Mississippi Review and as a Poet-in-Residence at the University of Richmond; she is listed in Who鈥檚 Who of American Writers and Editors and included in the Best American Poetry anthologies. Her work has been recognized and honored on multiple occasions, including with the Susan B. Herron Award for highest ranked fellow by the Mississippi Arts Council, and on multiple occasions by the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. She is a recipient of one of the 草榴社区 College of Arts and Science鈥檚 top honors, the Charles W. Moorman Distinguished Professorship in the Humanities.