Fanny Howe Reading, October 18th

Poet Fanny Howe will be reading this afternoon at 4:00pm at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, follwed by a reception.

For more information about the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series, please visit http://beineckepoetry.wordpress.com/2006-2007-readings-at-beinecke/.

Fanny Howe is the author of more than twenty books of poetry and prose. Her recent collections of poetry include On the Ground, Gone, Selected Poems, Forged, and One Crossed Out. Her recent prose works include The Lives of a Spirit / Glasstown: Where Something Got Broken and Nod. Howe is also the author of collections of essays, short stories, and books for young adults. Fanny Howe's Selected Poems was the winner of the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and was short listed for the Griffin Poetry Prize; she has been awarded fellowships and prizes from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, the Village Voice, and the Bunting Institute.

For more information and examples of Fanny Howe's work visit:

http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/881

http://www.kenyonreview.org/interviews/howe.php

http://www.griffinpoetryprize.com/shortlist_2005.php?t=4

http://www.inblogs.net/versemag/2004/11/new-review-of-fanny-howe.html