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Poetry · Volume 3, Number 1

We Are the Renters

Beth Ann Fennelly

A poem embracing the identity of renters in a neighborhood of homeowners, with wry defiance about clutter, transience, and belonging.

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Beth Ann Fennelly

Beth Ann Fennelly’s third book of poetry, Unmentionables , will be published by W. W. Norton in 2008. Her previous collections are Tender Hooks (Norton, 2004) and Open House (Zoo Press, 2001), winner of the Kenyon Review Prize in Poetry. Fennelly is an assistant professor at the University of Mississippi and lives in Oxford, Mississippi.