Pictures & Events
September 8th, 2011. "The Impeded Stream: An Evening of New Work"  by Gordon Johnston. Sponsored by The Willingham Garden Society and the department of English.
October 20th, 2010. Mercer Shakespeare Society's first annual "Almost All Hallows Revels!" Here we are again, attired in wonder, as Benedick might say . . .
October 2010. Willingham Garden Society Autumnal Poetry reading.
October 2010. "Shakespeare in the Square." More scenes beneath the spreading Shakespeare tree. Midsummer mechanicals, with a variety of interloping voices, including Leeanne's Mr. Roboto and Kyle's Zombie (he kept replacing words in the text with "brains.")
Gordon Johnston with students from his Intermediate Poetry Writing course after a reading at the Joshua Cup coffee shop. Students are: Nicole Norwood, Corey Bennet, Whitney Gray, Jerrica Kelly, LaDonna Long and Nekia Cordy.
2007 Sams Chair Poet-in-Residence Margaret Gibson meeting with a Creative Writing class.
Sams Chair Margaret Gibson with students Kaitland Rainer, Whitney Gray and Dot Dannenberg after a reading.
Georgia Poetry Circuit poet Laure-Anne Bosselaar with students Jordan Dominy, Clerissa Cooper, Tony Washington and Denise Chittenden.
Officers of Mercer's Sigma Tau Delta chapter at the 2008 induction ceremony for new members. From left to right: Katherine Grimm, Jessica Andrews, and Samuel Grier
New member of Sigma Tau Delta, Billie Pritchard, with her proud parents.
Department member Deneen Senasi with students Hannah Smith and Meredith McCormick at the 2008 Sigma Tau Delta induction ceremony.
Steve Blustone presiding at the Louis Simpson Tribute for the 2008 AWP (Association of Writers and Writing Programs) conference.
Former Sams Chair Louis Simpson and Steve Bluestone at the 2008 AWP conference.
Matthew Simpson, Louis Simpson, Robert Bly and Steve Bluestone at the 2008 AWP conference.