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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.

 

Alma College boasts a 13-to-1 student-to-teacher ratio, a liberal arts approach to undergraduate education, 28 academic majors, self-designed programs of emphasis, pre-professional programs in law and medicine, and an intensive Spring Term that provides opportunities for innovative courses, travel classes, research and internships.

 

Faculty Profile

Mary Wendt
Departments: English

Mary Wendt earned her undergraduate degree in English at Alma College, and now as a visiting instructor she teaches some of the same classes she took as a student.

She earned her master’s degree in composition and communication from Central Michigan University and is currently a doctoral student at Michigan State University.