Chapter 16 takes a look at the newly relaunched Sewanee Review, the oldest literary magazine in the country.
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Seeking to Enchant and Enlighten
The Sewanee Review continues its long commitment to excellence under new editor Adam Ross
Poetry
All-American Cheerleader Sandi Sentell Stands in Line Outside Alumni Gym Before a Lecture by Gloria Steinem
Bobby C. Rogers is professor of English and writer-in-residence at Union University in Jackson. He will read from his newest poetry collection, Social History, at the University of Tennessee’s John C. Hodges Library in Knoxville on March 27 at 7 p.m.
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An American Story
Inaugural poet Richard Blanco talks with Chapter 16 about his new memoir
Richard Blanco brings a poet’s keen eye for observation and a prose writer’s gift for plot to his new memoir, The Prince of los Cocuyos, which illustrates how cultural, sexual, and artistic sensibilities are “all developed—not independently of each other—but simultaneously.” Blanco will appear at Vanderbilt University in Nashville on March 15 at 7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
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The Future of American Poetry Is In Their Hands
The work of three young Nashville poets is earning national attention
Good news for Vanderbilt undergraduates Ariana Yeatts-Lonske and Marissa Davis, and for Belmont undergraduate Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay suggests the future is bright for poetry in Tennessee
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Taking Notes on the Spiritual Landscape
Poet Mark Jarman stalks elusive truths in The Heronry
Mark Jarman’s eleventh poetry collection, The Heronry, contains his central themes of spirituality and nature, his characteristic fondness for abiding in the mystery of ordinary experience, and his quietly fierce moral sense, all conveyed in language that is at once simple and cerebral. Jarman will discuss The Heronry in Buttrick Hall Room 102 on the campus of Vanderbilt University in Nashville on February 23 at 7 p.m.
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“Reap”
Book Excerpt: This Shaky Earth
Both poet and playwright, Linda Parsons is an editor at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. Her poetry has appeared in The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Asheville Poetry Review, and Shenandoah. This Shaky Earth is her fourth poetry collection. Her play Under the Esso Moon was selected for the Tennessee Stage Company’s 2016 New Play Festival and will receive a staged reading in 2017.
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