Fight or Flight is the third poetry collection by Nashville native Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum. He’ll appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 16.
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“The Orb Weaver’s Song”
Book Excerpt: Fight or Flight
Poetry
“A Warm Day in Winter”
Book Excerpt: The Foundling Wheel
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Blas Falconer is the author of The Foundling Wheel and A Question of Gravity and Light. His poems have been featured by Poets & Writers, The Poetry Foundation, and Poetry Society of America.
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“Statues in the Park”
Book Excerpt: Intimacies in Borrowed Light
Intimacies in Borrowed Light is the first full-length poetry collection by Knoxville native Darius Stewart, who is also the author of three chapbooks. He received the 2021 Emerging Writer Award from the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame and is currently a Lulu “Merle” Johnson Doctoral Fellow in English Literary Studies at the University of Iowa. He lives in Iowa City with his dog, Fry.
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“We Love Those Among Whom We Have Spent the Day”
Book Excerpt: Secret City
“We Love Those Among Whom We Have Spent the Day” is included in Secret City, Katherine Smith’s 2022 collection from Madville Publishing.
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“Sleeping Over on Highway 78”
Book Excerpt: My Back Pages: The Teresa Poems
“Sleeping Over on Highway 78” is included in Floyd Collins’ 2022 collection, My Back Pages: The Teresa Poems, published by Stephen F. Austin University Press.
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“Weapons, or What I Have Taken in My Hand to Speak When I Have No Words”
Book Excerpt: An American Sunrise: Poems
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Joy Harjo, who served three terms as U.S. Poet Laureate, is an internationally renowned performer and writer of the Muscogee Creek Nation.
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