Poet

Beth Ann Fennelly

Thursday, September 13, 2007

Talk on craft
3:00 P.M.—CSU Ostrander Auditorium
Reading
7:30 P.M.—CSU Room 253

Beth Ann Fennelly received a 2003 National Endowment for the Arts award and a 2006 United States Artist grant. She’s written two books of poetry, Open House, which won the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize and the GLCA New Writers Award, and Tender Hooks, as well as a book of essays, Great with Child. Her third book of poems, Unmentionables, is forthcoming in 2008. She has three times been included in The Best American Poetry series and is a Pushcart Prize winner. She is an associate professor at the University of Mississippi.

See a writing sample by Fennelly.

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This year's Good Thunder Reading Series is funded by the Minnesota State University Department of English, the College of Arts and Humanities, the Office of Institutional Diversity, the Eddice B. Barber Visiting Writer Endowment, the Robert C. Wright Endowment, and individual donors. This activity is made possible in part by a grant provided by the Prairie Lakes Regional Arts Council from funds appropriated by the Minnesota State Legislature and the McKnight Foundation. This activity is also made possible in part by a grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board, through an appropriation by the Minnesota State Legislature and a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. MSU Library Services and Barnes & Noble Bookstore at Minnesota State offer additional support.