May 9, 2016 Luann Landon’s first book of poems, South Bound, is a collection of verse narratives about the American South. Earlier poems have appeared in Measure, Sewanee Theological Review, Cumberland Poetry Review, The Tennessee Quarterly, and others. Her memoir-cookbook, Dinner at Miss Lady’s, was published by Algonquin in 1999. A Nashville native, Landon now lives in Sewanee. She will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 10, 2016, at 6:30 p.m.
May 5, 2016 “Quiet truths do not argue for their worth,” writes poet Jeff Hardin, who will read from his two latest volumes, Restoring the Narrative and Small Revolution, at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 10, 2016, at 6:30 p.m. In a world where people go “deaf haranguing some agenda,” Hardin prefers “allowing / a little sway to what gets said or done.”
April 28, 2016 Jeff Daniel Marion: Poet on the Holston celebrates the life and work of Appalachian poet Jeff Daniel Marion. Edited by Jesse Graves, Thomas Alan Holmes, and Ernest Lee, the anthology contains seventeen essays—including an autobiographical essay by Marion himself—an interview with the poet, and a detailed timeline of his life.
April 7, 2016 Ron Rash has built his reputation as a prolific chronicler of Appalachian lives, and his new collection, Poems: New and Selected, adds to this formidable body of work, shining focused light into pockets of mountain shadow. Rash will read from the book at Chattanooga State Community College at several events held April 12-15, 2016, in connection with the Writers@Work series.
April 4, 2016 Vanderbilt University M.F.A. candidate Tiana Clark has added another national honor to her extensive CV: Clark’s chapbook, Equilibrium, is the winner of the 2016 Frost Place competition and will be published by Bull City Press in early 2017.
March 28, 2016 Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay, Nashville’s first Youth Poet Laureate, has just published her debut collection. this is our war sparkles with imagery and wisdom that will stay with you long after you close the book. Mukhopadhyay will read from it at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 1, 2016, at 6 p.m.
