Many voices harmonize in Paper Concert
Amy Wright’s Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round compiles interviews with a variety of thinkers and artists who explore an array of topics from climate change to ketchup. Wright will deliver the Basler Chair Lecture at ETSU on March 28 and will appear at ETSU’s Bert C. Bach Written Word Initiative on April 12. She’ll also read at Knoxville’s Flying Anvil Theatre on April 10.
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Carsen Smith co-authors a new sci-fi thriller for middle-grade readers
Comedy writer Carsen Smith and actor and producer James S. Murray join forces to launch Area 51 Interns, a new middle-grade series. The first book, Alien Summer #1, is on shelves now.
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Book Excerpt: Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, 10th Anniversary Expanded Edition
Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, the award-winning 2011 debut collection by ETSU poet-in-residence Jesse Graves, is released this month in an expanded 10th anniversary edition. A poetry reading featuring Graves and Matthew Wimberley, with music by Michael Cody, will be held at East Tennessee State University on March 23.
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Book Excerpt: The Wind Is Sacred There
From 1980-2017, Klyd Watkins lived near Radnor Lake State Natural Area in Nashville. The Wind is Sacred There is a collection of poems inspired by his walks at Radnor.
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Book Excerpt: A Walk to the Spring House
A Walk to the Spring House is the second poetry collection by Sue Weaver Dunlap, who lives near Walland, Tennessee. Her poems have appeared in Appalachian Journal, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and Southern Poetry Anthology.
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Book Excerpt: Even When We Sleep
Even When We Sleep, due in June 2022, is the latest collection by Marilyn Kallet, former Knoxville Poet Laureate. Previous collections include How Our Bodies Learned, The Love That Moves Me, and Packing Light: New and Selected Poems.
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