Beth Ann Fennelley and Tom Franklin will hold a poetry and fiction reading at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, March 15 in Yeager Recital Hall, located in the Center for the Arts on campus. Sponsored by the English Department, the William Maness Fund, and the Liberal Arts Forum, this event is free and open to the public.
Fennelley’s first book, “Open House,” won the 2001 Kenyon Review Prize for poetry. She is also the author of “Tender Hooks,” which consists of poems about her daughter’s birth. Fennelley’s husband, Tom Franklin, is the author of a collection of short fiction, “Poachers,” chosen by Esquire as a Best First Book of Fiction for 1999. Franklin has also written a novel titled “Hell at the Breech.” The couple teach writing at the University of Mississippi.
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