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When Their Hearts Became Their Landscape

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.

Equilibrium

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.

Young Magic

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.

“tangerines”

March 28, 2016 Lagnajita Mukhopadhyay is a senior at Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet School, and she has been writing for as long as she can remember with the help of her creative and supportive parents. In 2015, she served as the first-ever Nashville Youth Poet Laureate, and her work is under contract with Penmanship Books. She will read from this is our war at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 1, 2016, at 6 p.m.

“Knead”

March 22, 2016 Born and raised in Knoxville, Sue Weaver Dunlap now lives deep in the Tennessee mountains near Walland, where she and her husband live on and work a mountain cattle farm. Her poems have appeared in Appalachian Journal, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Appalachian Heritage, and Southern Poetry Anthology, among other collections and journals. Dunlap will read from Knead at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on March 24, 2016, at 6 p.m.

Need Out of Reach

March 18, 2016 In her new poetry collection, Galaxie Wagon, Darnell Arnoult addresses aging with enviable humor and wisdom. She will read from her work at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on March 24, 2016, at 6 p.m.

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