The Nightbird features Beth Ann Fennelly, the Poet Laureate of Mississippi. The Rumpus noted Fennelly’s most recent “collection will invite you into the delicate balance between the challenging, sometimes squalid, human condition and the beauty and sadness of the transcendent.” Fennelly’s newest book,Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-Memoirs (2017), was selected as one of the ten […]

The Howard County Poetry and Literature Society’s annual daylong poetry fest features Mississippi Poet Laureate Beth Ann Fennelly. About  Fennelly’s 2017 Heating & Cooling: 52 Micro-memoirs, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution wrote, “Beth Ann Fennelly’s genre-defying collection is so engaging and readable that you won’t even notice how much you’re learning about confronting the hardest challenge we all share: […]

Howard County General Hospital will hold “When Back Pain Keeps Coming Back,” featuring a presentation by Johns Hopkins spine surgeon Dr. Amit Jain. The free event will take place on Wednesday, April 24, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the Howard County General Hospital Wellness Center at 10710 Charter Drive in Columbia. Participants will learn […]