Bess Cooley’s debut poetry collection grapples with language and loss
Florence, the debut poetry collection by Knoxvillian Bess Cooley, is a euphonic meditation on family, memory, and truth that plays with time and form.
Michael Vorenberg searches for an end date of the Civil War
Reckoning asks us all to come to terms with women’s experience
A Brussels building becomes a refuge from the inhumanity of war In Alice Austen’s 33 Place Brugmann
A Black gay storyteller comes of age in Isaac’s Song by Daniel Black
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We cover novels set here; histories involving Tennessee events or locations; authors who live here, were born or educated here; and out-of-state writers when they give readings or participate in book signings anywhere in the state. We also publish original poems and essays by prominent Tennessee authors (including previews of their works in progress).
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