Poetry by Mississippi Laureate

Video by Beth Ann Fennelly, see her work in Vol. IV #8

Step inside “The Kudzu Chronicles.” As the poet reads her book-length poem, you learn more about her than you may know about your closest friend. Subsidized by United States Artists.

In December 2002, Beth Ann Fennelly was among only thirty-eight writers to receive a National Endowment for the Arts Grant. Hers was a notable Creative Writing Fellowship in Poetry. In 2016, Fennelly was selected as Mississippi’s Poet Laureate by Malcolm White, executive director of the Mississippi Arts Commission, at the Rotunda of the Capitol Building. Fennelly’s new book, Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, will be available in the fall of 2017.