Fellowship Enables English Professor to 'Bring Poetry and Music into Dialogue' | Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Before she was a poet, Tsitsi Jaji was a pianist. The associate professor of English grew up surrounded by song in her native Zimbabwe. Her father conducted choirs. Her mother introduced her to the piano at age 5, and Jaji went on to study piano performance at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music.
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