Editor's Note
When you visit Chapter 16 today, you’ll find that we’ve had a bit of a glow up. Here are a few words from Serenity Gerbman, director of literature and language programs at Humanities Tennessee, about our new site design:
We launched Chapter 16 way back in 2009 on a shoestring budget, and we are forever indebted to artist Billy Renkl for creating the original logo as a gift to Humanities Tennessee. The logo has served us well for going on 16 years. Billy is a visual artist for whom words and paper are important creative elements, which explains how he was able to create an image with visual appeal for the web and a strong, classical design. We thank him, and we hope that you will visit his website, see his work, and purchase it for yourself and others.
The new look you see today was created by artist Susanna Chapman and designer Kevin Kennedy. Susanna is an illustrator based in Nashville whose work includes picture books, prints, illustrations, and more. She created the new logo. Kevin Kennedy has worked with Chapter 16 since our earliest days. He built the redesigned website with endless patience for the ideas, questions, and harebrained notions of Humanities Tennessee staff.
As always, please support those who support the work of Humanities Tennessee!
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Today at the site, Sara Beth West interviews Chantha Nguon, along with her co-author Kim Green and her daughter Clara Kim, about her memoir Slow Noodles, newly released in paperback. Last week, we revisited Michael Ray Taylor’s review of Soraya Cates Parr’s Nashville Native Orchids; Cat Acree reviewed Holy Ground, an essay collection by environmental justice activist Catherine Coleman Flowers; we featured a poem from Ray Zimmerman’s collection It’s Just a Phase; and G. Robert Frazier interviewed Mark Greaney about his latest Gray Man novel, Midnight Black.
News Roundup
- Richard Powers was interviewed for CBC’s The Sunday Magazine.
- Tova Mirvis was interviewed for the Boston Globe.
- Poetry in the Boro was featured by Dandelion Scribes.
- Poems by Amie Whittemore were published in Cutleaf.
