Thomas Alan Holmes is a professor of English at East Tennessee State University. In the Backhoe’s Shadow is his first collection of poetry. He’ll read from his work at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on September 11 and at the 2022 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 14-16.
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“Molly in a Red Wig Plays a Fiddle”
Book Excerpt: In the Backhoe’s Shadow
