History in the Making
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Walking Gentry Home, poet Alora Young crafts a family history from the stories passed down through generations.
Poetry
‘When You’re Dead We’ll Cherish You Again’
In her mesmerizing debut, Helen of Troy, 1993, poet Maria Zoccola merges the mythological and the modern, casting Helen of Troy as a restless housewife and mother in Sparta, Tennessee. Zoccola will be a featured author at ETSU’s Emerging Writers Series on February 9.
‘A Beacon of What Is’
Three recent poetry collections — Lou Turner’s Twin Lead Lines, Connie Jordan Green’s Nameless as the Minnows, and Richard Collins’ Stone Nest — skillfully utilize a variety of Tennessee settings, including the Nashville music world, Oak Ridge in its early years, and a rocky mountaintop in Sewanee.
A Burst of Light from the Dark
In his third collection, Feller, East Tennessee poet Denton Loving offers moments of heightened exchange between the human and nonhuman worlds.
Crow Logos
The poems in Derelict Days in That Derelict Town, the fourth collection by Knoxvillian Alan May, embrace gilded weirdness and delicious decrepitude, but their staying power lies in their depiction of human loneliness.
A Cure as Vast as the Violence
In the wake of the 2024 presidential election, celebrated writers Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith attempted what so many of us have struggled to do: process events that have unleashed an onslaught of dangers. As a response, Jones and Smith have assembled The People’s Project, which they describe as “a community in book form.”
