Mercer University’s Spencer B. King Jr. Center for Southern Studies will award the 2022 Thomas Robinson Prize for Southern Literature to renowned poet, professor and author Nikky Finney. The prize will be presented April 23 at 1 p.m. in the Presidents Dining Room inside the University Center on the Macon campus. “Words come and go.…

I believe that identity is a fluid that flows between diversity and uniqueness. It changes and adapts depending on the events and context. For its unpredictable and changing nature, the “character piece” is one of the composers' favorite devices for finding, embracing, transforming, or hiding their identity through music. This program proposes some of these…