Watch Beth Ann’s Ted Talk, “What’s the Use of Reading? On Literature and Empathy”
Reading literature educates us emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually, according to poet and author Beth Ann Fennelly, who joins her two decades of experience in the classroom with new studies from the emerging field of literary neuroscience to prove that reading literature makes us more empathetic.
Beth Ann on CNN Newsroom with Pamela Brown
A conversation about Heating & Cooling
University of Mississippi professor and Mississippi Poet Laureate Beth Ann Fennelly is out with a new book of poetry "Heating and Cooling." Learn more at http://www.mpbonline.org
Interview with Beth Ann Fennelly
Issue One Contributor Beth Ann Fennelly (Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs, 2017) sits down with the editors of The Arkansas International at AWP in D.C.
Short Film of the Poem "The Kudzu Chronicles"
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. Watch more videos like this at www.unitedstatesartists.org.
Trailer for The Tilted World
One of the six nominees for the UK's 2014 Crime Thriller Award, The Tilted World by Tom Franklin and Beth Ann Fennelly is both a love story and a compelling crime saga. Here their book is featured as a pick for the Crime Thriller Book Club, featuring interviews and critical commentary.
Mississippi Public Broadcasting Presents and Evening with Claire and Beth Ann
Singer/songwriter Claire Holley and Mississippi poet laureate Beth Ann Fennelly, old friends, entertain an intimate audience with songs and poems.
The Academy of American Poets’ Dear Poets Project
As part of the 2021 Dear Poet project, students around the country and the world wrote letters to Beth Ann Fennelly in response to a video of her reading her poem “Poem Not to Be Read at Your Wedding” aloud. Beth Ann Fennelly wrote letters back to four of these students; their letters and her replies are included below.
