St. Clair County Community College in Port Huron has planned several free events to celebrate the release in late April of the 52nd edition of Patterns, a literary and arts publication featuring student work.

• 3 to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 24 — Visiting authors Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin will be available for an informal gathering and discussion of writing at Studio 1219, 1219 Military St., Port Huron.
• 2 to 6 p.m. Sunday, April 25 — A reception is planned in the college’s Fine Arts Theatre to honor the SC4 student writers and artists. Selections of their work will be read or displayed. A social hour with hors d’oeuvres will follow in the College Center Atrium with a reading of their own works by visiting authors Beth Ann Fennelly and Tom Franklin. Copies of Patterns will be available.
• April 9 to 25 — An art show in the college’s Fine Arts Galleries will highlight work from student artists featured in Patterns. Galleries are open from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. The galleries also will be open during the reception April 25.

Fennelly is an associate professor of English at the University of Mississippi in Oxford. She has published four books of poetry and nonfiction, including Unmentionables. She’s also had poems published in more than 40 anthologies. She has been selected for two Pushcart Prizes in poetry, twice for The Best American Poetry series and also received a National Endowment for the Arts award.

Franklin is a writer-in-residence at the University of Mississippi. An author of three books, his next novel, Crooked Letter Crooked Letter, is due out in September. His stories and novel excerpts have appeared in more than 40 publications. He has won an Edgar Award, Mississippi Institute for Arts & Letters Award and Alabama Library Association Award.

Fennelly and Franklin are married and live in Mississippi.

Production of Patterns and the Patterns events are made possible by financial support from National Endowment for the Arts, St. Clair County Community College and SC4 Friends of the Arts.

For more information, call (810) 989-5767.