TROY--Troy University’s Department of English will present readings by poet Alice Friman, Georgia’s Author of the Year Award winner, on Feb. 20 and 21 in Montgomery and Troy.

The Montgomery Campus event will be held in the Rosa Parks Museum auditorium on Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 7 p.m. Friman will be on the Troy Campus in the Hawkins Hall auditorium, room 122, on Thursday, Feb. 21, at 4 p.m.

Friman is Poet-in-Residence at Georgia College in her hometown of Milledgeville, Ga., and her most recent poetry collection is “Vinculum” (LSU Press). She won the 2012 Georgia Author of the Year Award in Poetry and is a recipient of a 2012 Pushcart Prize, along with numerous other awards for her literary creations. She has been published in fourteen different countries and a new collection, “The View from Saturn,” is forthcoming from LSU Press in 2014.

TROY -- Troy University will play host to the sixth annual Southeastern United States Honor Choir Jan. 18-19 on the Troy Campus.

Nearly 200 high school vocalists from Alabama, Georgia and Florida will take part in the event, receiving direction from guest clinician/conductor Dr. Gary Packwood. Participants will present a closing concert at 2:30 p.m. on Jan. 19 in the Claudia Crosby Theater. The concert is free and open to the public.

Dr. Packwood is director of choral activities at Mississippi State University. His duties include conducting all choral ensembles and administering the choral activities area. Prior to this appointment, Dr. Packwood served as associate professor and associate director of choral activities and head of music education at the University of Montevallo from 2003-2011, where he taught graduate and undergraduate courses in choral music, music education and conducted the Chamber Singers and University Chorus.

Twelve Troy University art and design students are showcasing their work in Malone Gallery during the Fall Senior Thesis Exhibition that runs through Dec. 14.

The senior projects are required for graduation and each reflects the students' personal interpretations of the world around them. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public daily from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m. runs through Dec. 14.

A reception honoring the seniors is slated for 6 p.m. – 8 p.m. on Dec. 13 in Malone Gallery.

Seniors exhibiting are:

• Hillary Andrews, a design, technology and innovation major from Montgomery, whose mixed media project focuses on branding and marketing for Head on the Door, a local Montgomery lounge.