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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What was my pandemic nostalgia really about?
When COVID-19 struck and the world shut down in March 2020, I escaped reality by searching for the dream toy of my childhood.
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Joel Agee’s debut novel delves into a young boy’s mind in a time of crisis
The Stone World, the first novel from memoirist and translator Joel Agee, tracks the burgeoning consciousness of a boy living with his parents in 1940s Mexico. Agee, son of legendary writer James Agee, depicts a world of émigré artists who teach the protagonist about art, politics, and community.
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