Join us for a reading and book signing with Ann Fisher-Wirth at the Eudora Welty House & Garden on Thursday, April 20, at 5 p.m., courtesy of Lemuria Books. Fisher-Wirth will be reading from her seventh book of poems, PARADISE IS JAGGED, released in February (Terrapin Books).
Her sixth book is titled THE BONES OF WINTER BIRDS, and her fifth, a poetry/photography collaboration with Maude Schuyler Clay, is MISSISSIPPI. With Laura-Gray Street, she co-edited THE ECOPOETRY ANTHOLOGY, now in its third printing. A senior fellow of the Black Earth Institute, she has had Fulbrights to Switzerland and Sweden, and residencies at Djerassi, Hedgebrook, The Mesa Refuge, Camac, and Storyknife. She is the recipient of several awards and prizes, including three poetry fellowships from the Mississippi Arts Commission, the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Poetry Prize, a Rita ove Poetry Prize, a Malahat Review Long Poem Prize, and the 2023 Governor’s Award for Excellence in Literature and Poetry from the Mississippi Arts Commission. Ann retired in 2022 from the University of Mississippi, where she taught in the MFA program and directed the Environmental Studies program for many years. Until recently, she also taught yoga at Southern Star in Oxford, MS.
