Pens, Paints, and Creations Poetry and Visual Art Event and Exhibition featuring poet Angela Ball and artists Emma French Connolly, Francis Lee, Susan Walck, Taryn Larremore Holzinger, and Thomas Jackson

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12 June Friday

Pens, Paints, and Creations Poetry and Visual Art Event and Exhibition featuring poet Angela Ball and artists Emma French Connolly, Francis Lee, Susan Walck, Taryn Larremore Holzinger, and Thomas Jackson

12 June 2026, 17:00 - 12 June 2026, 19:00
Main Street Gallery, 210 N Main St.
Hattiesburg, MS United States

This figurative exhibition features a dynamic group of artists, complemented by engaging poetry that invites creative exploration. Angela Ball’s poems, translations, and essays have appeared in Poetry, Oxford American, The Paris Review, Atlantic Monthly, Ploughshares, North American Review, The New Yorker, Field, Colorado Review, The New Republic, The Bennington Review, and elsewhere. She is the author of seven books of poetry, most recently Talking Pillow. She will read poems from her new poetry collection Steeplechase, which is forthcoming in February and was recently named one of the most anticipated poetry books of 2026 by LitHub

Details
Date: June 12
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Venue
Venue Name: Main Street Gallery
Address: 210 N Main St.
Hattiesburg, MS United States

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