“A Warm Day in Winter”
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Blas Falconer is the author of The Foundling Wheel and A Question of Gravity and Light. His poems have been featured by Poets & Writers, The Poetry Foundation, and Poetry Society of America.
Poems
“Statues in the Park”
Intimacies in Borrowed Light is the first full-length poetry collection by Knoxville native Darius Stewart, who is also the author of three chapbooks. He received the 2021 Emerging Writer Award from the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame and is currently a Lulu “Merle” Johnson Doctoral Fellow in English Literary Studies at the University of Iowa. He lives in Iowa City with his dog, Fry.
“We Love Those Among Whom We Have Spent the Day”
“We Love Those Among Whom We Have Spent the Day” is included in Secret City, Katherine Smith’s 2022 collection from Madville Publishing.
“Sleeping Over on Highway 78”
“Sleeping Over on Highway 78” is included in Floyd Collins’ 2022 collection, My Back Pages: The Teresa Poems, published by Stephen F. Austin University Press.
“Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words”
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.
“Molly in a Red Wig Plays a Fiddle”
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.
