Roger Fanning (born 1962 in Millington, Tennessee) is an American poet.^[1]

Life

He teaches in the low-residency Warren Wilson MFA program out of Goddard College.^[2] He lives in Seattle with his wife and son.^[3]

His work is noted for its ironic sincerity and exaltation of the mundane.

Awards

• 1992 Whiting Award
• National Poetry Series for The Island Itself

Works

Books

• The Island Itself. Penguin Books. 1992. ISBN 978-0-14-058689-3. (1st edition 1991)
• Homesick. Penguin Poets. 2002. ISBN 978-0-14-200052-6.
• The Middle Ages. Penguin Books. 2012. ISBN 978-0-14312-034-6.

Anthologies

• Michael Collier, ed. (2000). "The Space Needle". The new American poets. UPNE. ISBN 978-0-87451-964-8.

Poems

• "Australia"; "Henry", The Drunken Boat, spring 2000
• "Poet's Choice: Hospital Sidewalk." Selected by Mary Karr. The Washington Post, October 19, 2008