Featured Project

Poets and Poetry, Katherine Durham Oldmixon

Katherine Durham Oldmixon, a poet, salsa dancer, photographer and supporter of arts and cultures on campus and in the community serves on the board of Texas Folklife and as the current president of Austin Poetry Society, a chapter of Poetry Society of Texas. She is also the Director of the Writing Program and Associate Professor of English at Huston-Tillotson University in east Austin. Recipient of many awards, her poetry appears in various literary magazines and anthologies, including multiple years of di-vêrse’-city, the anthology of the Austin International Poetry Festival, and in the 2008 Texas Poetry Calendar, for which she also provided the cover art.

Dr. Oldmixon is using her Research Associateship to connect the richly talented poets of the Austin community organization she leads this year with the academic resources available to poets and scholars of poetry in the University libraries. She will share articles and books on poetry with vibrant local poetry communities through the Austin Poetry Society newsletter, edited by Robert Elzy Cogswell. Dr. Oldmixon will also use her associateship to produce poetry prompts and exercises based on resources in the Harry Ransom Center holdings that can facilitate curriculum development on her campus and discussions and workshops with poets and writers in the larger community.