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.
Connie Jordan Green, a member of the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame, is the author of novels for young people, poetry chapbooks and collections, and a personal newspaper column that ran for more than 42 years. She will appear at the 2025 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 18–19.
Night Train to Memphis is Richard Tillinghast’s 14th poetry collection. His poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, The Atlantic, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The New Republic, The Best American Poetry, and elsewhere. A native of Memphis, he currently lives in Hawaii and spends his summers in Tennessee.
Abby N. Lewis, a poet from Dandridge, Tennessee, is the author of the collection Reticent (2016) and two chapbooks. Her latest collection, Aquakineticist, explores the experience of growing up female in the American South.
Claudia Emerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2005 poetry collection, Late Wife, and served as the poet laureate of Virginia. She was a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and frequently taught at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She died in 2014. Ungrafted includes previously uncollected poems left in manuscript at the time of her death, as well as selections from her eight published collections.
