Roger Fanning

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Roger Fanning
Born Millington, Tennessee, U.S.
OccupationPoet
NationalityAmerican

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

Contents

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

Anthologies

Poems

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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.