June 15, 2016 Gary McDowell is the author of a collection of lyric essays and five collections of poetry, including Mysteries in a World That Thinks There Are None. His poems and essays have appeared in journals such as American Poetry Review, The Nation, The Southern Review, New England Review, and Prairie Schooner. He will read from Mysteries in a World That Thinks There Are None at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 20, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
June 14, 2016 William Woolfitt is the author of Beauty Strip (Texas Review Press, 2014) and Charles of the Desert (Paraclete Press, 2016). His poems and stories have appeared in Gettysburg Review, The Threepenny Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Blackbird, and other journals. An assistant professor of English at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee, he will read from his new poetry collection at Bar Marley in Knoxville on June 19, 2016, at 1 p.m.
Robert Penn Warren’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poems finally allowed Kate Daniels to call herself a Southern writer
June 10, 2016 Robert Penn Warren is the only writer to have won a Pulitzer Prize in both poetry and fiction—and he won for poetry twice: in 1958 for Promises: Poems and in 1979 for Now and Then: Poems. In the fifth of a nine-essay series commemorating the centennial year of the Pulitzer Prizes, poet Kate Daniels remembers the way Warren’s poetry helped her confront an ugly past.
In her new novel, Dorothea Benton Frank tattles on one-percenters behaving badly
June 9, 2016 Olivia Ritchie has a nice life. She’s madly in love with her husband, a professor who has just retired, and she has a rewarding career as an interior designer for the super-rich. Dorothea Benton Frank’s latest novel, All Summer Long, takes readers on a tour of the life of the one percent while also investigating what makes a happy marriage. Frank will appear at The Booksellers at Laurelwood in Memphis on June 13, 2016, at 6 p.m.
A serial killer with a twisted agenda stalks Nashville in J.T. Ellison’s Taylor Jackson prequel, Field of Graves
June 8, 2016 Field of Graves, a prequel to J.T. Ellison’s popular Taylor Jackson series, takes readers back in time for a serial-killer thriller with a side of juicy backstory. Ellison will appear with Heather Graham at the Green Hills Library in Nashville on June 13, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
June 7, 2016 Laurie Perry Vaughen is the author of two new poetry chapbooks: Fine Tuning and What Our Voices Carry from Wild Columbine Press. She will read from both collections at Star Line Books in Chattanooga on June 10, 2016, at 6 p.m. A reception begins at 5 p.m.
