Samantha Thornhill to Appear at Southwest
Southwest’s Language s and Literature Department presents Samantha Thornhill Thornhill is a Brooklyn-based poet, educator, and curator from Trinidad and Tobago who will visit Southwest Tennessee Community College on April 23 at 1 p.m. She will be presenting at the Union Avenue Campus, Parrish 101. Thornhill has been invited to share her versatile works in a variety of contexts across the U.S., Europe, Africa, and the Caribbean. After graduating with her MFA in poetry from the University of Virginia, Thornhill moved to New York City, where for the past decade she’s been teaching poetry to actors at The Juilliard School. She teaches creative workshops to the elderly, as well as urban and rural youth. Seventeen literary journals and anthologies have featured her poems, and in 2010, Scholastic Books published her ode to the folk legend Odetta in picture book form. She is currently producing and co-directing a documentary...