Samantha Thornhill to Appear at Southwest

Southwest’s Languages 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 about the teenage daughters of incarcerated fathers, and is a content curator for Russell Simmons' YouTube channel, All Def Poetry.

Thornhill will also be conducting a poetry workshop earlier the same day, April 23, at 10:30 a.m. in the same venue, Parrish 101, on the Union Avenue Campus. The workshop is limited to six participants with preference given to Southwest students. If you would like to participate, please send a manuscript of no more than four poems to Jerome Wilson at wjwilson2@southwest.tn.edu no later than April 17.

The reading is free and open to the public.

NOTE: There will be a reception for Ms. Thornhill later that afternoon at the home of Jerome Wilson starting at 5:30PM. Address: 41 S. Rembert, 38104 (between Union and Madison)

The workshop and public reading is sponsored by Southwest’s Student Activities

http://www.samanthaspeaks.com/