Faculty Reading Series presents Robert Fanning & Matthew Roberson

Robert Fanning is the author of six full-length collections of poetry: All We are Given We Cannot Hold, (forthcoming, Dzanc Books, 2025), Cage (forthcoming, Salmon Poetry, 2026), Severance, Our Sudden Museum, American Prophet and The Seed Thieves, as well as three chapbooks: Prince of the Air, Sheet Music and Old Bright Wheel. His poems have appeared in Poetry, Ploughshares, Shenandoah, Gulf Coast, The Atlanta Review, Waxwing, THRUSH, Diode, The Cortland Review, The Common, and many other journals. He is the Founder/Facilitator of the Wellspring Literary Series in Mt. Pleasant, MI., and is currently on tour with a band called Daryl and the Beans. For more information, visit: www.robertfanning.wordpress.com.

Matthew Roberson is the author of four novels—1998.6, Impotent, List, and the recently published campus novel Interim. He also edited the collection Musing the Mosaic: Approaches to Ronald Sukenick. His short fiction has appeared in Fourteen Hills, Fiction International, Clackamas Literary Review, Western Humanities Review, Notre Dame Review, McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, and others. He lives and teaches in central Michigan, where he also directs the CMICH Press Summit Series.