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Visiting Writers

Jane Hirschfield, Poet

 

Jane Hirshfield, poet, teacher and translator (most notably of Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz), visited the Alma Campus on October 14, 2004, for a workshop and reading. She has written five collections of poetry, most recently Given Sugar, Given Salt, as well as books on poetry, such as her acclaimed Entering The Nine Gates. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly and The Best American Poetry Series. She has also been featured on NPR with Garrison Keiller, as well as on PBS with Bill Moyers.

Posted: Tue, September 7th, 2004 at 8:20PM

 

Since 2003, twenty-seven Alma College students have won prestigious national fellowships, scholarships and awards, including 15 Fulbright fellowships and multiple Truman, Udall, and Gates-Cambridge scholarships.

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Faculty Profile

Dr. William Palmer

Dr. William Palmer
Departments: English

Although William Palmer stuttered throughout his childhood, he developed a love for words that continues to this day.

“Stuttering was a wound in my life, but inside this wound I found a gift — the ability to write and the ability to teach writing,” the professor of English says.

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