Dana Malone drew upon her musical studies and her journalism and speechwriting career to create the poems in Everyone Begotten, Everything Holy (Poems and Libretto). She’ll appear with Jubal Lee Young at Grimey’s in Nashville on October 8 and at Scarritt Bennett Center in Nashville on October 29.
Melissa Range’s poetry collection Printer’s Fist, awarded the 2025 Vanderbilt University Literary Prize, draws on archival research into 19th-century antislavery newspapers, pamphlets, and broadsides. Range will appear at the 2026 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 17-18.
Titanfall, Noah Soltau’s debut poetry collection, was shortlisted for the Arthur Smith Poetry Prize. Soltau’s recent work appears in Cutleaf, storySouth, and elsewhere, and he is the managing editor of The Red Branch Review. Raised in Chattanooga and educated in the South and Germany, Soltau lives with his wife and two daughters in East Tennessee.
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Nashvillian Annette Sisson’s first book of poetry, Small Fish in High Branches, was released in 2022 by Glass Lyre Press. Her poems have appeared in Birmingham Poetry Review, Nashville Review, and One. Her chapbook, A Casting Off, was published by Finishing Line Press in 2019.
Richard Collins’ Cartoons for the Chaos: Poems 1975-2025, was published in March 2026. His previous books include John Fante: A Literary Portrait, No Fear Zen, In Search of the Hermaphrodite: A Memoir, and Stone Nest. Since 2016 he has been abbot of the New Orleans Zen Temple and now resides in Sewanee, Tennessee, where he directs Stone Nest Zen Dojo.
Denton Loving is the author of Crimes Against Birds (2014) and Tamp (2024), which received the inaugural Tennessee Book Award for Poetry. Loving will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18–19.
