Poet Fanny Howe to read at Kenyon College

GAMBIER, Ohio (September 3, 2004) Poet Fanny Howe, who will be the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Creative Writing at Kenyon College during the spring semester, will read from her work at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, September 16, in the College's Peirce Hall Lounge.

Howe was the recipient of the 2001 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize for her Selected Poems. She has also won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Poetry Foundation, the California Council for the Arts, and the Village Voice. Her recent collections of poetry include Forged, Q, One Crossed Out, O'Clock, and The End. She has also written several novels and short story collections, books for young adults, and a collection of literary essays.

Howe's reading is sponsored by the Thomas professorship and is free open to the public.