Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Authors on the Plaza

Join us in Nashville for the twenty-second annual Southern Festival of Books

…of the discussion.” Plus, it’s free. As always, the festival features individual readings, panel discussions, book signings, and musical and literary performances on three different festival stages. This year Humanities…

"Duskdawn"

…love, because the people are real      to us there, the food hot, the tater-tots crispy, there’s always a pie or cake homemade from some woman in town.      A middle-aged man…

Book Excerpt: Kingfisher Days

Each Page a Ghost

Shadow But where to file this memory? Umbrellas of milkweed fluff poppinsing backlit over cars, the low sun’s Regency glow on domestic brick but on cars’ metal blinding. A vagrant…

Week Links

Check out all the places Tennessee writers have appeared online in the past week

…scanners and screening devices aren’t available but skilled doctors can diagnose—and treat—a host of illnesses simply through careful physical examination. As a physician on the faculty of the Stanford University…

Detour in Tennessee

The Academy of American Poets honors Kimiko Hahn’s poem about Sweetwater Caverns

…till he can “climb out of the caverns / into the six o’clock evening sun” and buy a six pack. Read the poem, and hear Hahn read it aloud, here….

Writeous

Online auction “Do the Write Thing” brings in $75,000 for Tennessee flood relief

…they were drowning in emails and couldn’t process them all. So much money came in so quickly that PayPal temporarily froze their account before the auction was halfway through. By…

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