Book Excerpt: An American Sunrise: Poems
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Joy Harjo, who served three terms as U.S. Poet Laureate, is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation.
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Book Excerpt: In the Backhoe’s Shadow
Thomas Alan Holmes is a professor of English at East Tennessee State University. In the Backhoe’s Shadow is his first collection of poetry. He’ll read from his work at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on September 11 and at the 2022 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 14-16.
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FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: TJ Jarrett is a writer and software developer in Nashville. Her debut collection, Ain’t No Grave has just been released from New Issues Press. A second collection, Zion, winner of the Crab Orchard Open Competition 2013, will be published by Southern Illinois University Press in the fall of 2014.
Book Excerpt: Blue If Only I Could Tell You
Richard Tillinghast’s latest poetry collection, Blue If Only I Could Tell You, won the 27th annual White Pine Press Poetry Prize. He’ll read from his work at Parnassus Books in Nashville on July 6.
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Book Excerpt: Either Way, You’re Done
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Stephanie McCarley Dugger’s first full-length poetry collection, Either Way, You’re Done, was published by Sundress Publications in 2017.
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Book Excerpt: Him or Her or Whatever
Tyler Friend was grown — and is still growing — in Tennessee and received their MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Friend is the author of a poetry chapbook, BUNKER, and Him or Her or Whatever is their first full-length collection.
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