{"id":6350,"date":"2025-12-04T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/?p=6350"},"modified":"2026-01-06T22:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T22:35:10","slug":"creative-writing-program-hosts-poets-didi-jackson-and-patrick-paridee-samuel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/creative-writing-program-hosts-poets-didi-jackson-and-patrick-paridee-samuel\/","title":{"rendered":"Creative Writing program hosts poets Didi Jackson and Patrick Paridee Samuel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt&#8217;s Creative Writing Program hosted a salon on November 13 with assistant professor <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/bio\/didi-jackson\/\">Didi Jackson<\/a> <\/strong>and fellow poet <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.patrickparideesamuel.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patrick Sharidee Samuel<\/a><\/strong>. They discussed their recent collections, <a href=\"https:\/\/redhen.org\/book\/my-infinity\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>My Infinity<\/em><\/a> and <em><a href=\"https:\/\/unabridgedbookstore.com\/book\/9781917617031\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">And Another Thing<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6359\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-131720.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"637\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-131720.png 637w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-131720-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 637px) 100vw, 637px\" \/>Following the salon, graduate and undergraduate students participated in a book-making workshop and produced their own work.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6348\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6348\" style=\"width: 545px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-6348 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Picture1-545x1024.png\" alt=\"images from the Jackson\/Samuel salon\" width=\"545\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Picture1-545x1024.png 545w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Picture1-160x300.png 160w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Picture1-768x1442.png 768w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Picture1-818x1536.png 818w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Picture1-1091x2048.png 1091w, https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Picture1.png 1925w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 545px) 100vw, 545px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6348\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students attend a literary salon and book-making workshop with Samuel (center left) and Jackson (center right).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For upcoming events, visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/reading-series\/\">Gertrude C. &amp; Harold S. Vanderbilt Reading Series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt&#8217;s Creative Writing Program hosted a salon on November 13 with assistant professor Didi Jackson and fellow poet Patrick Sharidee Samuel. They discussed their recent collections, My Infinity and And Another Thing. Following the salon, graduate and undergraduate students participated in a book-making workshop and produced their own work. &nbsp; For upcoming events, visit the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":6360,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8,19,18,15,17],"tags":[5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2025\/12\/Screenshot-2025-12-04-131955.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6350"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6366,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6350\/revisions\/6366"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}