Roger Fanning

Roger Fanning (born 1962 in Millington, Tennessee) is an American poet.[1]

Roger Fanning
BornMillington, Tennessee, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican

Life

He teaches in the low-residency Warren Wilson MFA program out of Goddard College.[2] He lives in Seattle with his wife and son.[3]

His work is noted for its ironic sincerity and exaltation of the mundane.

Awards

Works

Books

  • The Island Itself. Penguin Books. 1992. ISBN 978-0-14-058689-3. (1st edition 1991)
  • Homesick. Penguin Poets. 2002. ISBN 978-0-14-200052-6.
  • The Middle Ages. Penguin Books. 2012. ISBN 978-0-14312-034-6.

Anthologies

Poems

  • "Australia"; "Henry", The Drunken Boat, spring 2000
  • "Poet's Choice: Hospital Sidewalk." Selected by Mary Karr. The Washington Post, October 19, 2008

References

  1. "The Official Hootenanny".
  2. "GR Contributors: Fall 2001". www.greensbororeview.org. Retrieved 2016-04-10.
  3. Collier, Michael; College, Bread Loaf Writers' Conference of Middlebury (2000-01-01). The New American Poets: A Bread Loaf Anthology. UPNE. ISBN 9780874519648.


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