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Reading by Beth Ann Fennelly: Poet, Novelist, and Essayist
Please join us for a reading by poet, novelist, and essayist Beth Ann Fennelly.
- Thursday, Nov. 30
- 4 p.m.
- George Segal Gallery
This event is open to the university and the general public.
About Beth Ann Fennelly:
A few of her micro-memoir openers from Heating & Cooling
In every book my husband’s written, a minor character named Colin suffers a horrible death. This is because my boyfriend before I met my husband was named Colin.
-- from "Married Love"
That Friday, after morning Mass, the priests visited our third grade to announce a meeting for prospective altar boys.
I went. Me, a girl.
-- from "Goner"
Tommy's parents wave from the porch as our minivan pulls up. His dad smiles, and that’s when I see he's missing about half of his teeth.
-- from "Salvage"
Beth Ann Fennelly, Poet Laureate of Mississippi, teaches in the MFA Program at the University of Mississippi, where she was named Outstanding Teacher of the Year. She’s won grants and awards from the NEA and United States Artists, as well as a Pushcart, and a Fulbright to Brazil. Fennelly has published three poetry books with W. W. Norton: Open House, Tender Hooks, and Unmentionables, and a book of nonfiction, Great with Child. The Tilted World, a novel she co-authored with her husband, Tom Franklin, was published by Harper Collins. Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs is her latest book.