About Roger Fanning
Born 1962. Roger Fanning is a poet.
Roger Fanning (born 1962 in Millington, Tennessee) is an American poet.
Life He teaches in the low-residency Warren Wilson MFA program out of Goddard College. He lives in Seattle with his wife and son.
His work is noted for its ironic sincerity and exaltation of the mundane.
Awards 1992 Whiting Award National Poetry Series for The Island Itself
Works
Books (1st edition 1991)
Anthologies
Poems "Australia"; "Henry", The Drunken Boat, spring 2000 "Poet's Choice: Hospital Sidewalk." Selected by Mary Karr. The Washington Post, October 19, 2008
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