author of Talking Pillow
Friday, October 19, 9:00 a.m.
In Talking Pillow, Ball channels the unexpected loss of her partner to explore the depths of love before and after death intervenes, creating a work that is, according to David Lehman, “as intimate as a dream.” Ball’s other collections of poetry include Vixie, Quartet, POSSESSION, Kneeling Between Parked Cars, and Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds, which was the winner of the Donald Hall Prize and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Poetry. Ball directs the Center for Writers at the University of Southern Mississippi.
Did You Know?
- Angela Ball has twice been a recipient of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award in Poetry.
- She was a U.S. representative at the Poetry International Festival, hosted in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
- She was visiting writer at Chateau Lavigny near Lausanne, Switzerland.
