Austin Peay State University art alumni Khari Turner catches eye of Hulu, Zendaya, The Roots
September 18, 2020
Clarksville, TN – Austin Peay State University (APSU) art alum Khari Turner has had a summer he won’t soon forget.
He was one of 10 featured Black artists during Hulu’s Woke Art Fest on September 14th, 2020 spending an hour taking viewers on Hulu’s Instagram TV through his art process and New York City studio.
Austin Peay State University art alumni Khari Turner. (APSU)
APSU alumni artist Khari Turner ‘creating as much as I can’ at Columbia during Coronavirus Outbreak
March 27, 2020
Clarksville, TN – Emerging artist Khari Turner – who graduated from Austin Peay State University (APSU) last spring – is in his first year of graduate school at Columbia University.
Austin Peay State University alumni artist Khari Turner. (APSU)
Women Writers’ Hour Event at the Customs House Museum
September 21, 2017
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum will kick off the month of October with a Writers’ Hour in conjunction with the exhibit This Is My Story. The event takes place on October 1st, 2017 at 2:00pm and will include readings by some of the women featured in the show.
Women writers representing multiple decades shared their thoughts of who they are on Mother’s Day. Their writings are suspended on cloth, hung “clothesline style” in the Museum’s Jostens Gallery.
This Is My Story
APSU graduate Conor Scruton to study poetry at summer house of Robert Frost
April 23, 2015
Clarksville, TN – A small, white house located on a farm in New Hampshire, the property now known as The Frost Place served as American poet Robert Frost’s summer home from 1915 through 1938.
It was on that humble plot of land where Frost formed many of the poems that would eventually earn him, among other honors, a Congressional Gold Medal and four Pulitzer Prizes. In 1977, 14 years after his death, the farmhouse was transformed into The Frost Place and became a retreat for emerging American poets.
English student Conor Scruton composes a poem on a typewriter in APSU’s Harned Hall on Monday, April 13, 2015. (Beth Liggett, APSU)
APSU’s Zone 3 journal recognized in “Best American Essays 2013”
October 7, 2013
Clarksville, TN – Every October, the country’s literary community eagerly awaits the release of the “Best American Series,” celebrating the top writing published in the United States in a given year.
The anthologies are a Who’s Who of a genre’s current literary stars, but they also highlight the nation’s preeminent magazines and journals that feature these works.
Austin Peay State University’s Zone 3 Journal
Creative writing professor kicks off lecture series
August 30, 2011
Clarksville, TN – The written words of Emily Dickinson, Sappho, Dorothy Allison, Abigail Thomas and Jane Tompkins all have something in common – their powerful voices speak for those misrepresented or underrepresented.
This is the basis of a research presentation by Dr. Amy Wright, assistant professor of creative writing at Austin Peay State University. She is one of several faculty members chosen to present their research and creative activity on campus during the 2011-12 academic year as part of the Provost Lecture Series.
Abigail Thomas and Dorothy Allison
