Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

The Bard of Hume-Fogg

Poet and educator Bill Brown talks about his writing and his approach to teaching

August 26, 2010 Bill Brown has combined a lifelong vocation as a poet with a distinguished teaching career, including twenty years at Nashville’s Hume-Fogg Academic Magnet high school. He recently published his fourth collection of poems, The News Inside. He answered questions about his earliest efforts as a poet, his philosophy of teaching, and the future of poetry in the Internet age.

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Landscapes of Her Heart

Elizabeth Spencer, one of the South’s greatest writers, discusses her work, her years in Tennessee, and her friendship with Eudora Welty

July 13, 2010 After more than sixty years of acclaim as both a novelist and short-story writer, Mississippi native Elizabeth Spencer is still pursuing her craft. In anticipation of her reading at the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, she spoke with Chapter 16 about her remarkable body of work. Spencer will read at the Bairnwick Women’s Center on the Sewanee campus. The event is free and open to the public.

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