[282]FEB. 6 BOOK SIGNING ENDS POET FENNELLY’S MTSU HONORS COLLEGE VISIT

Release date: Jan. 30, 2009


News & Public Affairs contact: Randy Weiler, 615-898-2919
English department contact: Dr. Claudia Barnett, 615-898-2887
Honors College contact: Kathy Davis, 615-898-2152


FEB. 6 BOOK SIGNING ENDS POET FENNELLY’S MTSU HONORS COLLEGE VISIT


(MURFREESBORO) — Author and poet Beth Ann Fennelly and MTSU students will be featured in a poetry reading that will be open to the public at 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 6, in Room 106 of the Paul W. Martin Sr. Honors Building, said Dr. Claudia Barnett, professor and Visiting Artist Series program coordinator.
A book signing with Fennelly and a reception, which are open to the public, will follow the poetry reading. The Feb. 6 event will conclude the Feb. 2-6 Visiting Artist’s Seminar, “The Art and Craft of Poetry,” a one-credit class open to upper-division honors students.
Fennelly has published three books of poetry—Unmentionables (Norton, 2008), Tender Hooks (Norton, 2004) and Open House (Zoo Press, 2002)—and a book of letters, Great with Child (Norton, 2007). Her poems have appeared in Best American Poetry 2005 and Best American Poetry 2006.
Fennelly lives in Oxford, Miss., with her family and is an assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi.
For more information, contact Barnett at 615-898-2887 or e-mail her at cbarnett@mtsu.edu or contact the Honors College at 615-898-2152.

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