Red Horizons
In an ever-tilting time of political unrest, ecoclimate crises, and unstable concepts of the future, poet Larry D. Thacker envisions a different world in his latest poetry collection, New Red Words.
Poetry
Invincible Language
Major Jackson’s sixth poetry collection, Razzle Dazzle, sets the biographical details of the poet’s life alongside the evolution of his work. Jackson will give a reading at the CMAC Building at Lane College in Jackson on April 2, and he will appear with Jad Abumrad at Analog at Hutton Hotel in Nashville on April 8.
“Temporary Madness”
Claudia Emerson won the Pulitzer Prize for her 2005 poetry collection, Late Wife, and served as the poet laureate of Virginia. She was a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers and frequently taught at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference. She died in 2014. Ungrafted includes previously uncollected poems left in manuscript at the time of her death, as well as selections from her eight published collections.
Family, Memory, and Truth
Florence, the debut poetry collection by Knoxvillian Bess Cooley, is a euphonic meditation on family, memory, and truth that plays with time and form.
What the Long Poem Says About Me
Through smoldering honesty and formal inventiveness, the poems in Tiana Clark’s Scorched Earth insist on foregrounding the rough truths that shake loose during times of upheaval. Clark will discuss Scorched Earth at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 5.
“Poem for a Chattanooga Night Club”
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Tyler Friend was grown — and is still growing — in Tennessee and received their MFA from Vermont College of Fine Arts. Friend is the author of a poetry chapbook, BUNKER, and Him or Her or Whatever is their first full-length collection.
