Poet Laureate of Mississippi to Speak at Pitt-Bradford
Her talk, which will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Mukaiyama University Room of
the Frame-Westerberg Commons, is free and open to the public. The presentation
is part of the university’s Spectrum arts series as well as programming for
Women’s History Month.
“I am really excited about being able to bring Beth Ann to campus,” said Dr.
Nancy McCabe, professor of writing and director of the writing
program.
“I read one of her poems 20 years ago and was so bowled over by it that I’ve
followed her career closely ever since. My students have loved the work of hers
that I’ve assigned in class. I’ve heard her speak and found her riveting, with a
wicked sense of humor, warmth and insight that I think others will also find
inspiring.”
Fennelly
teaches in the Master of Fine Arts program at the University of Mississippi,
where she was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year.
She
has won grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the United
States Artists, a Pushcart Prize, and a Fulbright fellowship to
Brazil.
A
graduate of the University of Notre Dame, she was the first woman honored with
the university’s Distinguished Alumni in the Arts Award.
Her
poetry has been included in more than 50 anthologies, including “Best American
Poetry” in 1996, 2005 and 2006, “The Book of Irish American Poetry from the
Eighteenth Century to the Present,” and “The Penguin Book of the
Sonnet.”
Increasingly,
she has turned to prose and has written for Garden and Gun, O an Oprah Magazine,
Country Living and Southern Living.
In
2013, she and her husband, Tom Franklin, co-authored a novel, “The Tilted
World,” that has been translated into six languages.
Her
newest book is “Heating
& Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs.” She and Franklin
live in Oxford, Miss., with their three children.
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