Mississippi Poet Laureate and Author

Past Readings

 

PAST READINGS (selected)

Beth Ann has given more than 500 readings, presentations, low-residency faculty residencies and workshops over the past 20 years.


International

Brazil: UFMG (Belo Horiztonte) and UNICAMP (Sao Paulo); Canada: The Iota Conference (Nova Scotia); Czech Republic: The Prague Summer Seminars; Denmark: The University of Copenhagen; England: The Oxford Round Table (Oxford University), Harlaxton Castle (Grantham), The Troubador (London); Germany: The U. S. Embassy in Berlin, The American Academy in Berlin, Freie Universität, The University of Göttingen, The Heidelberg Center for American Studies, Tübingen; Israel: Bar Ilan University (Tel Aviv); Iceland: Nonfiction Now (Reyjkavik); Switzerland, Chateau de Lavigny.


National

The Library of Congress, Voice of America Radio, The Folger Shakespeare Library, The Ohio Poetry Circuit (9 colleges), The Birmingham Poetry Circuit (5 colleges), The Georgia Poetry Circuit (10 colleges), The Associated Colleges of the Midwest (9 colleges) Texas A&M (4 branches), Writers-in-Paradise (5 years), The Faulkner Society Words and Music Festival (5 years), Sanibel Island Writers Conference (10 years), The Southern Festival of Books (6 years), The Associated Writing Program Conference (New Orleans, Chicago, Austin, Atlanta, NYC, Denver, Boston, Minneapolis, LA, D.C., Tampa, Portland, San Antonio, Philadelphia), The Geraldine R. Dodge Poetry Festival, The Tennessee Williams Festival, The Wisconsin Festival for the Book, The Miami Book Fair, The South Carolina Book Festival, The Mississippi Book Festival, The Louisiana Book Festival, The Decatur Book Fest, The Palm Beach Poetry Festival, Writing Today Conference, The Auburn Writers Conference, The Clemson Writers Conference, The Virginia Quarterly Review Writers Conference, The University of Indiana Writers Conference, Kentucky Women Writers Conference, Breadloaf, Sewanee. The Universities of: Arizona, Tennessee, Tampa, Illinois, Southern Illinois, Georgia, Virginia, Memphis, Connecticut, Notre Dame, North Carolina, Alabama, Wisconsin, Georgia, Arkansas, Nebraska, Maine-Farmington, Rutgers, Missouri- Kansas City, Houston, Long Island-Post, Tulane, Auburn, Carnegie Mellon, Johns Hopkins, Virginia Commonwealth, Virginia Tech. Florida State, Arizona State, Arkansas State, Cal State Fresno, Murray State, Delta State, Minnesota State-Mankato, Middle Tennessee State. The Colleges of Susquehanna, Elon, Kenyon, Webster, Sarah Lawrence, Rhodes, Colby, Knox, Wabash, Swarthmore, Hope. The Chautauqua Institute, The New York Arts Club, The Century Club, Open Books—Seattle Poetry Emporium, The Pat Conroy Literary Center, The Julia B. Tutweiler Women’s Prison, Parchman Prison, and Mt. Meigs Boys’ Detention Center.