Menu Menu Ann Fisher-Wirth is the 2025–2029 Mississippi Poet Laureate. She has published eight books of poetry; For What Is, Praise, her new and selected poems, is forthcoming in the Silver Concho Series from Press 53. A senior fellow of the Black Earth Institute, she received the 2023 Mississippi Arts Commission Governor’s Award for Excellence in Literature. She is retired from the University of Mississippi, where she taught in the MFA program and directed the Environmental Studies program.
