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Beth Ann Fennelly

Beth Ann Fennelly is the author of three poetry collections, Unmentionables, Tender Hooks, and Open House; two memoirs, Heating & Cooling and Great with Child; and a novel, The Tilted World, coauthored with her husband, Tom Franklin. She teaches at the University of Mississippi, and is also the state’s Poet Laureate. She lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

Beth Ann Fennelly

Books by Beth Ann Fennelly

Tender Hooks: Poems
Beth Ann Fennelly
Paperback, 2005
A fearless delineation of the joys, absorptions, and—yes—jealousies of new motherhood.
Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother
Beth Ann Fennelly
Paperback, 2011
"May be the best book ever to give for a baby shower."—Tampa Tribune
Unmentionables: Poems
Beth Ann Fennelly
Hardback, 2008
A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" (Harvard Review).
Open House: Poems
Beth Ann Fennelly
Paperback, 2009
“With its high spirits, its love of textures of different kinds of writing . . . [this] is an immensely lively performance.” —Robert Hass
Unmentionables: Poems
Beth Ann Fennelly
Paperback, 2009
“Insouciant, sexy, funny, and dead-on . . . a startlingly empathetic series of concise and slashing poems.”—Booklist
Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
Beth Ann Fennelly
Paperback, 2018
"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband’s sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara." —from Heating & Cooling, "Married Love, IV"
Unmentionables: Poems
Beth Ann Fennelly
E Book, 2008
A new collection by a poet declared "one of the most exciting poets of her generation" (Harvard Review).
Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs
Beth Ann Fennelly
E Book, 2017
"Morning: bought a bag of frozen peas to numb my husband’s sore testicles after his vasectomy. Evening: added thawed peas to our carbonara." —from Heating & Cooling, "Married Love, IV"