June 29, 2016 In his new poetry collection, Social History, Bobby C. Rogers celebrates the spirit that makes small towns in America so unique.
Stories, Not Textbooks
In his latest poems, Bobby C. Rogers celebrates small-town America
Erica Wright
Need Out of Reach
In her latest poetry collection, Darnell Arnoult addresses aging with candid humor and moving insight
March 18, 2016 In her new poetry collection, Galaxie Wagon, Darnell Arnoult addresses aging with enviable humor and wisdom. She will read from her work at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on March 24, 2016, at 6 p.m.
Storms Will Always Come
With The Bone Tree, Greg Iles confronts a dark chapter in Mississippi’s past
October 6, 2015 In the latest installment of his bestselling Penn Cage series, Greg Iles explores the many unsolved murders of African Americans in the years preceding the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Iles will appear on October 10, 2015, at noon in Nashville’s War Memorial Auditorium. The event, part of the Southern Festival of Books, is free and open to the public.
Not a Partridge, or a Ruby
In her debut poetry collection, Caroline Randall Williams considers the identity of Shakespeare’s Dark Lady
August 26, 2015 In her debut poetry collection, Caroline Randall Williams explores a game-changing theory that Shakespeare’s Dark Lady was a London madam named Black Luce. Williams will appear at the Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville October 9-11, 2015. All festival events are free and open to the public.
Light, Community, and Motion
Charlotte Pence’s poetry collection examines the parallels between ecology and mental illness
March 20, 2015 In her new poetry collection, Many Small Fires, Charlotte Pence writes about her father’s schizophrenia through the lens of ecology. Pence will read with Adam Prince on March 26, 2015, at Austin Peay State University in Clarksville; with Adam Day on March 27, 2015, at Belmont University in Nashville; and with Bradford Tice on March 30, 2015, at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. All events are free and open to the public.
A Voice Like Thunder
Beth Bachmann’s latest poetry collection explores the ramifications of war
January 26, 2015 In her new collection, Do Not Rise, Nashville poet Beth Bachmann writes about war and its aftermath with unflinching insight. Bachmann will read from her work on January 29, 2015, at 7 p. m. on the Vanderbilt University campus in Nashville. The event, which also includes a reading by Vanderbilt novelist Tony Earley, is free and open to the public.
