Jane Hirshfield recommends At the Center of All Beauty: Solitude and the Creative Life by Fenton Johnson (W. W. Norton & Company). “With the originality, clarity, and eloquence familiar from Fenton Johnson’s earlier books, this book in defense of solitude arrived in March 2020, right into the start...
Fenton reads together with poet Julie Marie Wade in a virtual appearance hosted by Carmichael’s Books, Louisville. Watch the replay here. ...
Fenton in a Zoom reading with Doug Manuel, Lynnell Edwards, and Elaine Orr, presented the Spalding University MFA Program in Creative Writing. Watch here. ...
Fenton moderates a panel at the American Film Institute 2020 Documentary Festival, following the screening of Elizabeth Barret’s “Portraits and Dreams.” The documentary profiles photographer and educator Wendy Ewald’s 1970s project of providing cameras to children living in some of the poorest counties of Eastern...
Fenton was recently featured with four distinguished authors in a Wiki video essay "Essayists Writing Books That Ask Difficult Questions." In addition to the essay, the page includes video from Fenton's 2017 reading at the San Francisco Public Library where he read from his book...