09/20/2026
A Poetic Evening with Collin Kelley & Karen Head is this Saturday, September 26th 🕊️✨
Collin Kelley is an award-winning poet and novelist from Atlanta, Georgia. His most recent work is Wonder & Wreckage: New & Selected Poems, and he is the co-editor of White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks Poetry Anthology. Find out more at collinkelley.com.
Karen J. Head, PhD, is the author of six books of poetry (What We Missed, Lost on Purpose, Sassing, My Paris Year, Shadow Boxes and On Occasion: Four Poets, One Year). She also co-edited the poetry anthologies Mother Mary Comes to Me: An Anthology of Popular Culture and Teaching as a Human Experience: An Anthology of Poetry, and has exhibited several acclaimed digital poetry projects, including her project “Monumental” (part of Antony Gormley’s One and Other Project) which was detailed in a TIME online mini-documentary. In 2010, she wonder the Oxford International Women’s Festival Poetry Prize. She is editor-emerita of the international poetry journal Atlanta Review. She is Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs, and Professor of English and World Languages, at Augusta University. For twenty years, Head served as a visiting artist and scholar at the Institute for American Studies at Technische Unversität Dortmund in Germany.
🗓️ Sat, September 26th
⏰ 6PM
The Virgin Mary long ago transcended her religious origins to become an instantly recognizable icon. From pop art to pop music, Mary’s status as the Mother of God continues to inspire the faithful and the secular. A statue of Mary weeping blood or her appearance on a piece of toast still had the power to make front page news and bring the devoted running with candles and eBay bids. 🕯️
In Mother Mary Comes to Me, poets explore the intersection of the sacred and popular personifications of Mary that have evolved throughout the ages, and how she still holds sway in the 21st century as a figure to be praised and celebrated.
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Selected as a book all Georgians should read, Mother Mary Comes to Me: A Pop Culture Anthology is co-edited by both visiting poets.
From haunting ballads of heartache to empowering anthems of liberation, White Winged Doves: A Stevie Nicks P
