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City of Charleston Office of Cultural Affairs
2021 Literary Arts Touring Grant Recipient
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Recipient Information
Location
Charleston, South Carolina
Project Title
Beth Ann Fennelly
Year of Award
2021
Grant or Fellowship
Literary Arts Touring Grants
Grant Amount
$1,750
Poet Beth Ann Fennelly will visit Charleston from Oxford, Mississippi to kick of the 2020 Free Verse Poetry Festival, presenting a public reading and signing to open the week-long festival at either City Gallery or Cannon Street Arts Center, with the following day used for educational outreach programs in a coordinated school visit facilitated by Charleston's poet laureate, Marcus Amaker.