VIDEO
- Zoom Reading for Literati Bookstore, Ann Arbor, 5.5.21
- Zoom Reading for Detroit’s East Side Reading Series, 10.17.20
- Zoom Reading for NextGen America, 9/09/20
- Preview of Severance: “Following the Threads (No Bones! No Bones!)”
- Preview of Severance: “Where We’re Nowhere”
- Preview of Severance: “Come Day”
- Reading at Poetry @ Tech Series, Atlanta, GA
- The Prophet at the Dry Cleaners, from American Prophet
- The Prophet’s Lament at Spring Break, from American Prophet
AUDIO
Interviews:
- Audio Review on NPR, Northern Michigan (begins at 48:33)
- Interview by Grace Cavalieri for “The Poet and the Poem,” Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
- Interview by T. Hetzel on “Living Writers,” WCBN-FM, Ann Arbor, MI
- Interview and Reading for the Michigan Writer’s Series, MSU
Poems:
- Poems read by Robert Fanning, on SoundCloud
- Poems featured on The Writer’s Almanac, read by Garrison Keillor
- “On Learning I Should Have Been a Twin” on The Cortland Review, Winter 2014
- “In a House Swept Away by the Sea” on The Cortland Review, Winter 2014
- “Staying the Night” on The Cortland Review, Issue 48
- “The Bird in the Room” on The Cortland Review, Issue 58
- “Watching My Daughter through the One-Way Mirror…” Rattle, #38
INTERVIEWS (WRITTEN)
- The Central Review
- The Tishman Review
- Michigan Quarterly Review
- The Ribbon
- New Pages
- Failbetter.com
- Poet’s Quarterly
- The Collagist
- Greatest Lakes Review
- Through the 3rd Eye
REVIEWS AND PRESS
- Review of Our Sudden Museum in Empty Mirror
- Review of Our Sudden Museum in NewPages.com
- Review of Our Sudden Museum in The Cortland Review
- Review of Our Sudden Museum in Emerging Writers Network
- Review of Our Sudden Museum in The Michigan Poet
- Review of American Prophet in Poet’s Quarterly
- Review of American Prophet in The Metro Times
- Review of American Prophet in 360 Main Street
- Review of The Seed Thieves in The Adirondack Review
- “Robert Fanning and the Poet’s Ear”
- Review of “Light’s Bright Lies” by Great Lakes Commonwealth of Letters
- Robert Fanning Bio/Poems on The Poetry Foundation
MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS
With sincere thanks to the incredible musicians who have translated my poems into music. Click links to download scores and listen to their pieces.
“Shell and Wing,” a collaboration of music and poetry by composer David Biedenbender and Robert Fanning. A poem in two stanzas set to music for solo soprano, flute, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin, violoncello, percussion, and piano.
- World Premiered by the Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, July 6-7, 2018.
- Performed by Lindsay Kesselman and Musique 21, Michigan State University, October 24, 2018
- Performed by New Music Detroit, September 14, 2019.
“May Our Young Find Music in All Our Broken Instruments” (from Our Sudden Museum)
(Solo Percussion and Spoken Word. Score by Jay Batzner, performed by Andrew Spencer.)
“Flute” (from Our Sudden Museum)
(Composed for Mezzo-Soprano by Jay Batzner. Performed by Katherine Crawford. Performed at Electronic Music Midwest, 2013)
“Staying the Night” (from Our Sudden Museum)
(Composed for flute and clarinet, by David Biedenbender.
- Performed by Nicole Molumby, flute and Leslie Moreau, clarinet (Boise State University): 2014 National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors National Conference, St. Louis, MO)
- November 1, 2014 : Performed by Crescent Duo; Joanna Cowan White, flute; Kennen White, clarinet :: 2014 National Association of College Wind and Percussion Instructors National Conference: St. Louis, MO
- March 9, 2018: Performed by Taimur Sullivan, soprano saxophone and Zach Shemon, alto saxophone :: 2018 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial Conference : College-Conservatory of Music, Cincinnati, OH:
- Performed by New Music Detroit, September 14, 2019.
ROBERT FANNING: POET 