FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Richard Tillinghast’s latest poetry collection, Blue If Only I Could Tell You, won the 27th annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize.
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“A House in the Country”
Book Excerpt: Blue If Only I Could Tell You
Funeral at a Dumpster
How do you let go of all the stuff?
Making decisions about what to get rid of is one of the many burdens aging bestows on those fortunate enough to last. I’ve recently been trying to make them myself.
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Safety Without Violence
Nashvillian Andrew Krinks turns a spiritual lens on race and mass incarceration
White Property, Black Trespass by Nashville scholar and activist Andrew Krinks examines mass incarceration and racial hierarchies through a spiritual lens, with a perspective rooted in the belief that “there is life beyond the present order of exploitation, dispossession, and death.”
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Soulful Dudes
Preston Lauterbach chronicles the Black pioneers who created Elvis Presley’s music and style
In Before Elvis, acclaimed writer Preston Lauterbach digs into the deep culture of Black Memphis, finding the origins of the superstar’s music and style.
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“Snow Day”
Book Excerpt: Visitations
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: John Bensko won the Yale Series of Younger Poets Award for his first book, Green Soldiers. His other books include The Waterman’s Children and The Iron City. The poem “Snow Day” appears in his 2014 collection, Visitations.
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An American Original
Jeff Apter surveys the life of a modest rock star in Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly
Jeff Apter’s Carl Perkins: The King of Rockabilly tells the story of a legitimate rock ‘n’ roll pioneer, as influential as his more celebrated peers at Sun Records like Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Johnny Cash.
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