The Hendrix-Murphy Foundation’s public events for the 2024-2025 school year also include visits from Alberto Rojo, Caroline Randall Williams, Katherine Tanner Silverman and Marcelo Hernández Castillo.
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Hendrix College announces $4.6 million gift
The estate gift from a Conway physician who died in February is one of the largest in Hendrix history.
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Religious rightwing candidates win seats on Conway School Board
The politically active Christian right wing has claimed two seats on the Conway School Board.
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Hendrix College to give Ronnie Williams honorary doctorate
Hendrix College plans to award longtime UCA administrator and Hendrix graduate Ronnie Williams an honorary doctorate in May.
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Spoken word poet Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre at Hendrix on Thursday
Steeped in sharp interrogations of masculinity and power structures, the work of poet Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre teaches lessons in joy and activism, free of pretension.
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Hendrix professor Kristi McKim pens book about Wes Anderson’s ‘Rushmore’
Published by BFI Film Classics, the book is fairly academic, but McKim’s prose frequently soars with personality, especially when she allows herself to drift into the first person.
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Acclaimed writer K-Ming Chang to read at Hendrix College
Chang’s debut novel, “Bestiary,” was given the following praise by the New York Times: “[It’s] full of magic realism that reaches down your throat, grabs hold of your guts and forces a slow reckoning with what it means to be a foreigner, a native, a mother, a daughter.”
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Hendrix-Murphy Foundation announces 2023-2024 literary events
Visiting literary figures include Garrett Hongo, K-Ming Chang, Kyle “Guante” Tran Myhre, Theresa Rebeck, Daryl Phillipy and Mark Vanhoenacker.
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Pulitzer Prize winning poet Sharon Olds to read at Hendrix College
Sharon Olds, one of America’s greatest living poets and the author of 13 celebrated volumes of verse, uses “aggressive intimacy” — as The New York Times Magazine calls it — not for cheap gimmicks, but in pursuit of truth. Her reading at Hendrix College occurs on Thursday, April 13.
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Married poets Ilya Kaminsky & Katie Farris will read at Hendrix College next Tuesday
Ilya Kaminsky — a hard-of-hearing National Book Award finalist whose poems in “Deaf Republic” explore deafness and political violence — and Katie Farris — whose soon-to-be-released collection, “Standing in the Forest of Being Alive,” captures “both the pleasures and the horrors” that come from breast cancer and all of its accompanying bodily awareness — will read at Hendrix on Tueday, March 28. American Sign Language interpreting services will be provided by Communication Plus+.