A Burst of Light from the Dark
In his third collection, Feller, East Tennessee poet Denton Loving offers moments of heightened exchange between the human and nonhuman worlds.
A Cure as Vast as the Violence
In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, celebrated writers Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith attempted what so many of us have struggled to do: process events that have unleashed an onslaught of dangers. As a response, Jones and Smith have assembled The People’s Project, which they describe as “a community in book form.”
Poems for the Timesick
By turns plaintive and exhilarating, Silas House’s All These Ghosts conjures an attentive, nuanced reckoning with what it means to call a place our home ground. House will discuss All These Ghosts at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18-19.
The Sanctuary of Becoming
In three recent poetry collections — Stephanie Niu’s I Would Define the Sun, Richard Tillinghast’s Night Train to Memphis, and Abby N. Lewis’ Aquakineticist — the nonhuman world offers potent spaces which alchemize human memory and reflection.
From the Outskirts
Ocean Vuong’s new novel, The Emperor of Gladness, revolves around the unexpected bond that develops between a vulnerable young man and an elderly woman who offers him a home and a chance to begin again. Vuong will discuss The Emperor of Gladness at the Nashville Public Library in a ticketed event co-hosted by Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 18.
What the Long Poem Says About Me
Through smoldering honesty and formal inventiveness, the poems in Tiana Clark’s Scorched Earth insist on foregrounding the rough truths that shake loose during times of upheaval. Clark will discuss Scorched Earth at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 5.
