Poet, prize-winner Fennelly to read at Mississippi State

Contact: Maridith Geuder

Beth Ann Fennelly, an Oxford poet whose first book won the Kenyon Review Prize, will read from her work April 8 at Mississippi State.

The 8 p.m. public program in the Colvard Union small auditorium is sponsored by the university's English department.

An assistant professor of English at the University of Mississippi, Fennelly has produced two volumes of poetry, "Open House" (Zoo Press, 2002) and "Tender Hooks" (W.W. Norton, scheduled for 2004).

Praised for her wit and eye for detail, she also has won the Carolina Quarterly's Wood Award for Distinguished Writing, as well as an Academy of American Poets Prize, Lily Peter Fellowship and MacDowell Residency for the Arts.

Fennelly's individual poems have appeared in journals such as Shenandoah, American Scholar, Michigan Quarterly Review, and the Kenyon Review, as well as numerous anthologies.

For more information, telephone (662) 325-3644.