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

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.

Presented with support from Forrest County and the Montague Fund for the Arts