Join fellow poetry enthusiasts for the 10th Anniversary celebration of Poet’s Corner, featuring a reading by local poet, Annette Sisson!

Scarritt Bennett Center’s beloved Poet’s Corner is celebrating 10 years! Join us for a reading by local poet, Annette Sisson, followed by a reception immediately after the reading.

Annette Sisson has poems published or forthcoming in Nashville Review, Typishly, One, The West Review, HeartWood Literary Magazine, Sky Island Journal, and many others. Her first full-length book, Small Fish in High Branches, is forthcoming from Glass Lyre Press (2021-22); her chapbook, A Casting Off, was published by Finishing Line in 2019. She was named a 2021 Mark Strand Poetry Scholar for the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, a 2020 BOAAT Writing Fellow, and winner of The Porch Writers’ Collective’s 2019 Poetry Prize. Visit her website at http://annettesisson.com.

EVENT DETAILS
Date/time: Thursday, September 23, 7pm
Location: Harambee Auditorium in Fondren Hall (see campus map).
Parking: On-campus is free and available in Parking Lots A & B
RSVP HERE
This event is free, but seating is limited. Reception immediately to follow.

Per CDC guidelines, Scarritt Bennett Center requires all who visit our campus to wear a mask while indoors, regardless of vaccination status.

Watch Online
The reading will stream live on our Facebook page at 7:00 pm CT. No login or account registration necessary to view the reading. A recording of the reading will be available on our Facebook page and YouTube channel after the live-stream ends.

For more information about this event, email Rev. Donna Patterson at [email protected].