Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Erin Elizabeth Smith

“February in Knoxville”

Book Excerpt: Down

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the creative director at Sundress Academy for the Arts and the managing editor of Sundress Publications. Down is her third full-length poetry collection. Her poems have appeared in Guernica, Ecotone, Mid-American, Tupelo Quarterly, Crab Orchard Review, and Willow Springs, among others. She is a Distinguished Lecturer in the English department at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and in 2017 she was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame.

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“Gastronomy”

Book Excerpt: The Naming of Strays

Erin Elizabeth Smith is the creative director at the Sundress Academy for the Arts in Knoxville and managing editor of Sundress Publications. She will give a free public reading on March 5 at the John C. Hodges Library on the campus of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville.

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