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.
Poetry
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.
“Information Worker at the End of the World”
Stephanie Niu is a poet and writer from Marietta, Georgia. I Would Define the Sun, her first full-length poetry collection, won the inaugural Vanderbilt University Literary Prize. She is also the author of the chapbooks Survived By: An Atlas of Disappearance and She Has Dreamt Again of Water. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, The Missouri Review, Literary Hub, Copper Nickel, Ecotone, and elsewhere.
Hometown Literary Hero
In Complete Poetry of James Agee, editors Michael A. Lofaro and Jesse Graves present hundreds of never-before-seen writings.
“Slime Mold”
Ray Zimmerman is a freelance journalist and creative writer living in Chattanooga. He spends time outdoors whenever he can and loves reading and writing about nature.
