Richardson’s debut poetry collection is released
By Special to The Dispatch 5 hours ago
Columbus poet Thomas Richardson’s first full-length collection “How to Read” has been released by independent press Friendly City Books. The book received praise from poets C. T. Salazar, the winner of the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters’ 2020 Poetry Award, and Jacqueline Allen Trimble, the winner of the 2017 Balcones Poetry Prize, among others.
A virtual event with Richardson is scheduled for Tuesday, May 11, at 5:30 p.m. CT on Zoom. The author will be available for virtual events, as well as in-person readings and signings in the Southeast region during summer 2021.
Carrying on ‘dreams from the past’ MSMS, local students to produce Eighth of May celebration to commemorate local Black history Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science senior Jaylin Jones performs a spoken word poem he wrote called “White Black” at a dress rehearsal for the Eighth of May Emancipation Celebration at Sandfield Cemetery on Wednesday. Jones and other MSMS students from Chuck Yarborough’s African American History Course and the school’s Voices in Harmony gospel choir will present the celebration, with live music and performances as historic Black figures buried in the cemetery, on Saturday at 11 a.m. Isabelle Altman/Dispatch Staff
State Board Selects Semifinalists for State Board Student Representative Program
JACKSON, Miss. â The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) has selected 10 semifinalists to serve as the SBE junior student representative in the 2021-22 school year, including a student from Houston High School.
McKenzie Bivens was selected as a semifinalist for the SBE program.Â
The SBE student representative program includes one high school junior and one high school senior who serve as non-voting SBE members and provide input on policy decisions that affect Mississippi public schools. The current junior SBE representative, Amy Zhang from the Mississippi School for Mathematics and Science, will serve as the senior representative in 2021-22.
Editorial Roundup: Mississippi
Recent editorials from Mississippi newspapers:
The Greenwood Commonwealth on baseball and the pandemic:
Baseball is a game in which coaches and managers are taught that if they want to increase their team’s chance of winning, they have to “play the percentages.”
If a left-handed slugger, for example, is coming up to bat in the late innings of a tight game, and a right-handed pitcher is on the mound, the manager of the team playing defense will often yank his right-handed pitcher and put in a left-handed one. That’s because in same-handed contests, the odds increase that the pitcher will get the batter out.
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