UA ALUMNA, POET BETH ANN FENNELLY TO READ

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. - Poet Beth Ann Fennelly, a graduate of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Arkansas, will visit the campus the week of September 20-24. Her visit, sponsored by the UA Programs in Creative Writing and Translation and the Department of English and funded in part by the Walton Foundation, will include a reading at 8 p.m., Sept. 23, in Kimpel Hall, room 102. The reading is free and open to the public.

Fennelly is the author of two books of poetry. "Open House" was published in 2001 and won the Kenyon Review Prize for Poetry, the GLCCA New Writer's Award and was a Book Sense Top Ten Poetry Pick. Her second book, "Tender Hooks," was published by W. W. Norton in April 2004. She lives in Oxford, Miss., with her husband, fiction writer Tom Franklin, and their daughter, Claire.

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Marissa Fugate, director of publicity, creative writing