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• ICC's 2024 Calliope to feature work of area students

  The work of several area students will be featured in The Calliope during the 2024 spring semester at Itawamba Community College.                The poets and their work include Lillyan Madrid of Amory, “Untitled;” Carmen Birmingham of Mooreville, “The love I bestow and share;” Tytianna Brooks of Okolona, “Pain;” Anna Thomas of Pontotoc, “D.N.H.”; Lillie Palmer of Saltillo, “I am fire;” Sara Davis of Smithville, “Exalted in the Highest;” Nailah Slatter, “Memories;” Crissen McCoy, “On My Own;” James Ross, “Spring Festival,” all of Tupelo; and Kent Humphries of Vina, Ala., “Just Pretend,”                The Calliope is ICC’s literary magazine. Editors are ICC art instructor Shawn Whittington of Saltillo, art, and English instructor Keith Morris of Tupelo, poetry.
• Work of area students to be featured in ICC's Calliope

  The work of several area students will be featured in The Calliope during the 2025 spring semester at Itawamba Community College.                 The poets and their work include Holly Edge of Mantachie, “Lingering Tune;” Sharlee Shumpert of Mooreville, “I Am Ambitious;” Abigael Cowsert of Myrtle, “Crickets Never Sleep;” Tytianna Brooks of Nettleton, “Solaced Thinking;” Va’Shawna Fleming of New Albany, “To Love Like Jesus; Sara Davis of Smithville, “Preacher Man;” Michaela Georges, “The World Is Ablaze;” Vidhi Patel, “The Perfect Gift;” James Ross, “Pieces of You;” and Teneshia Shells, “Wisdom,” all of Tupelo.                 The Calliope is ICC’s literary magazine. Editors are ICC art instructor Shawn Whittington of Saltillo, art, and English instructor Keith Morris of Tupelo, poetry.
• ICC's Calliope to feature work by area students

              The work of several area students will be featured in The Calliope during the 2019 spring semester at Itawamba Community College.             The poets and their work include Dylan Barnett (“RYL”) of Aberdeen, Tierra Hood (“A Small Country Church”) of Fulton, Dylan McCalla (“I AM”) of Guntown, Becky Blanton (“Letters to a Lark”) of Hamilton, Isabella McCarley (“X.I.T.”) of Mantachie, Brynmarie Cowart (“Cirque du Chagrin”) of Marietta, Chelsea Randle (“Forgetting Pain”) of Prairie, Mary Elizabeth Moore (“A Cat Sits On My Lap”) of Red Bay, Ala., Leia Kosteck (“Remember the way he held you”) of Saltillo and Madison Stanford (“Eleanor”) of Tupelo.             The Calliope is ICC’s literary magazine. Keith Morris of the Communications Division is the sponsor.
• Area residents' work featured in ICC's Calliope during 2023 spring semester

  The work of several area students will be featured in The Calliope during the 2023 spring semester at Itawamba Community College.             The poets and their work include Connor Monaghan of Amory, “Light Poles;” Sophia Matin of Amory, “Hiraeth;” Jordan Allen of Ridgeland, “Birth;” Madeline Comer of Dorsey, “Just Pictures;” Sydney Freeman of Houston, “The Rain;” Ally Melendez of Plantersville, “Gentle Monstrosity,” Emily Moorman of Pontotoc, “The Day after Valentine’s Day;” Maddie James of Tupelo, “Invisible Man;” Ta’Niya Patterson of Tupelo, “Leaves are so free;” and Kent Humphries of Vina, Ala., “The winter tree stands tall.”             The Calliope is ICC’s literary magazine. Editors are ICC art instructor Shawn Whittington of Saltillo, art, and English instructor Keith Morris of Tupelo, poetry.
• Work of 94-year-old Virginia Jackson, one of ICC's first students, currently on display in Fine Arts Center Gallery

  “The Gift of Life,” a collection of paintings by 94-year-old Virginia Jackson of Tupelo, is currently on display in the W.O. Benjamin Fine Arts Center Gallery at the Itawamba Community College Fulton Campus.             The show includes Jackson’s acrylic paintings of landscapes and country scenes as well as two acrylic paintings by her granddaughter, Morgan Davis.             Jackson’s first recollection of an interest in art was when she received a box of Crayola crayons at the age of five. She recalls coloring the embossed flowers on doilies (small napkins or decorative mats), but she didn’t start painting until the age of 91 when her daughter, Jill Jackson King, bought her a set of acrylic paints. She describes herself as self-taught and paints most scenes from memory. Most of her paintings are landscape scenes of farm life and “pretty flowers,” but she experiments with abstracts, also.             She was born Virginia Anthony in 1929 in her family’s home outside of Tremont. Her father built their house and raised crops, cattle and hogs on their farm during the Great Depression. Growing up, she ...
• ICC's Salinas selected for prestigious Delta Scholars Program

  Itawamba Community College sophomore Diana Salinas of Golden has been selected for the prestigious 2021 Delta Scholars Program. The Delta Scholars Summer Institute is a 10-day immersion program during which students will work to identify an issue of inequality or injustice in which they are interested and develop a proposal for a project that will promote dialogue and change around that issue in their own communities or the state of Mississippi. Salinas and the other students will spend the first portion of the program at the Shackouls Honors College at Mississippi State University, where they will engage with faculty and guest lecturers from a range of disciplines to learn about issues currently challenging the people and the economy of Mississippi, including food insecurity, public health, education and more. Substantive lessons designed to teach students about the workings and impact of different systems in the Delta will be intermixed with skills-based workshops designed to give students the planning, research and advocacy skills necessary to begin developing their independent projects. During the summer conference, which is scheduled for June 7-18, students will take ...