We are pleased to welcome Carol Tyx, PhD, as Prairiewoods’ new Artist in Residence. Carol is a gifted poet and the author of two books of poetry, The Fifty Poems and Rising to the Rim. Her newest manuscript, Remembering Achilles: Slicing into Angola’s History, was just awarded the inaugural Willow Run Poetry Book Award.
Carol says, “For me, writing is a way of pausing, a way of letting Life speak to me more deeply. Through writing, I taste life more fully, savor it, digest more of what it has to offer. This is a sacred act, connecting us with the preciousness of the ordinary lives we have been gifted.”
Carol is a professor of creative writing and literature at Mount Mercy University, where she has taught for two decades. We are currently enjoying her inaugural stay to write in this sacred place and look forward to her facilitating writing and poetry programming.
We are so happy to welcome Carol to the Prairiewoods family!
—Andi Lewis, Prairiewoods marketing coordinator
Posted Jan. 9, 2019