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| 6/17/26 | ![]() Jesse Graves Reading (Recorded Live, April 13, 2026) | In celebration of National Poetry Month, Jesse Graves joined us at Lawson McGhee Library for a reading of his work. Jesse Graves is the author of five poetry collections, including Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, Basin Ghosts, Specter Mountain, Merciful Days, the forthcoming A Little Light in the Grave, and a book of prose, Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place. His work received the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South from the Fellowship of Southern Writers and the Philip H. Freund Prize for Creative Writing from Cornell University, as well as two Weatherford Awards in Poetry from Berea College and the Appalachian Studies Association. Graves has served as co-editor for several collections of poetry and scholarship, including four volumes of The Southern Poetry Anthology and The Complete Poetry of James Agee. He teaches at East Tennessee State University, where he is Poet-in-Residence and Professor of English.Links:Jesse Grave's website"Jesse Graves and the Cosmic Appalachian Boogie," in Salvation SouthSix Poems by Jesse Graves in Porchlight: A Journal of Southern Literature"Two Stones" in New Verse Review"Above Johnson City" in As the Crow FliesThree poems in Cutleaf | — | ||||||
| 5/13/26 | ![]() Donovan McAbee and Kathleen Jamie✨ | poetrysongwriting+3 | Donovan McAbeeKathleen Jamie | The New York TimesTIME magazine+9 | South CarolinaNashville, Tennessee+1 | Donovan McAbeeKathleen Jamie+5 | — | 15m 20s | |
| 3/5/26 | ![]() Matt Broaddus✨ | poetryliterature+3 | Matt Broaddus | The American Poetry ReviewAnnulet+7 | Colorado | Matt Broadduspoetry+3 | — | 9m 54s | |
| 2/9/26 | ![]() Shuly Xóchitl Cawood✨ | writing workshopspoetry+3 | Shuly Xóchitl Cawood | Knox County Public LibraryThe New York Times+4 | — | Shuly Xóchitl Cawoodpoetry+3 | — | 9m 16s | |
| 11/15/25 | ![]() Arlene Keizer's Poems for Beauford Delaney✨ | poetryAfrican Diaspora+3 | Arlene Keizer | Pratt InstituteKent State University Press+2 | — | Arlene KeizerBeauford Delaney+5 | — | 9m 01s | |
| 9/9/25 | ![]() Chris Barton and Peter Gizzi✨ | poetryliterature+3 | Chris BartonPeter Gizzi | Bottlecap PressKnox County Public Library+8 | Knoxville, TNMassachusetts | Chris BartonPeter Gizzi+5 | — | 9m 10s | |
| 8/1/25 | ![]() Charles Douthat and Robert Frost✨ | poetryliterature+3 | Charles Douthat | PEN New England | CaliforniaNew Haven+6 | Charles DouthatRobert Frost+5 | — | 12m 48s | |
| 7/3/25 | ![]() Matthew Minicucci and Brigit Pegeen Kelly✨ | poetryliterature+3 | Matthew MinicucciBrigit Pegeen Kelly | Acre BooksAmerican Poetry Review+12 | — | Matthew MinicucciBrigit Pegeen Kelly+6 | — | 19m 49s | |
| 6/3/25 | ![]() Sara Pirkle and Anya Krugovoy Silver✨ | poetrycancer survival+3 | Sara PirkleAnya Krugovoy Silver | Mercer University PressThe University of Alabama+4 | — | Sara PirkleAnya Krugovoy Silver+5 | — | 22m 06s | |
| 4/23/25 | ![]() Denton Loving Joins us Live for All Over the Page!✨ | poetrybook discussion+3 | Denton Loving | Lawson McGhee LibraryEastOver Press+16 | — | Denton Lovingpoetry+3 | — | 37m 44s | |
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| 3/26/25 | ![]() Jennifer Horne and Thomas Hardy✨ | poetryliterature+3 | Jennifer Horne | Bottle TreeLittle Wanderer+9 | — | Jennifer HorneThomas Hardy+3 | — | 9m 23s | |
| 2/27/25 | ![]() Cornelius Eady: A Reading and Conversation✨ | poetryliterature+3 | Cornelius Eady | University of Tennessee, KnoxvillePoets House+12 | — | Cornelius Eadypoetry+3 | — | 48m 33s | |
| 1/8/25 | ![]() Cassandra de Alba and Amy Lowell | Cassandra de Alba has published several chapbooks including habitats by Horse Less Press in 2016, Ugly/Sad by Glass Poetry Press in 2020, and Cryptids, which was co-authored with Aly Pierce and published by Ginger Bug Press in 2020. Her work has appeared in The Shallow Ends, Big Lucks, Wax Nine, The Baffler, Verse Daily, and others. Amy Lowell was born in 1874 in Brookline, Massachusetts. She was educated in private schools in Boston and at her home. Lowell’s first significant poetry publication came in 1910 when her poem “Fixed Idea” was published in the Atlantic Monthly. Two years later, her book A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass was published by Houghton Mifflin. She went on to write several other books of poetry, and she was a key figure in the Imagist movement led by Ezra Pound. She wrote a major biography of the poet John Keats, which was published in 1925, the same year in which she died. Lowell’s book What’s O’Clock won the Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1926. Links:Cassandra de AlbaCassandra de Alba's websiteThree poems in Dear Poetry Journal"Self-Portrait with Rabbit Ears and Seventeen" at Verse Daily"Miniatures" in Ghost City"End Times Fatigue" at SweetAmy LowellBio and poems at Poetry FoundationBio and poems at Poetry.org | — | ||||||
| 11/14/24 | ![]() Mathias Svalina and Gerard Manley Hopkins | Mathias Svalina is the author of seven books. His most recent, America at Play (published by Trident Press), is a collection of absurdist instructions for children's games. His poetry collection Thank You Terror was published earlier this year, and his first short story collection, Comedy, is forthcoming soon. Svalina was a founding editor of Octopus Books. He’s led writing workshops in universities, libraries, community spaces, and in prison. Since 2014, he has run a dream delivery service, traveling around the country to write and deliver dreams to subscribers. Through the Dream Delivery Service, Svalina has worked with the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Poetry Foundation, the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson. Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in the London suburb of Stratford Essex in 1844. He studied classics at Balliol College in Oxford and theology at St. Beuno’s College in North Wales. He was ordained in 1877 as a Jesuit priest, and he served in London, Oxford, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Stonyhurst. He also taught classics at Stonyhurst College and Greek literature at University College, Dublin. During his lifetime, most of Hopkins’ poems were read by only a few friends. In 1889, Hopkins died of typhoid fever, and he was buried in Dublin, Ireland. Hopkin’s first collection, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, was published in 1918. Links: Read "Terrible Baby" by Mathias Svalina at The TinyRead "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection" by Gerard Manley Hopkins at Poets.orgMathias SvalinaMathias Svalina's websiteBio and poem at Poets.org"Mathias Svalina-Dream Delivery Service" video at by JustBuffaloLit Mathias Svalina reads from "Thank You Terror" at the Silo City Reading SeriesGerard Manley HopkinsBio and poems at Poets.orgInternational Hopkins Society's website (poems, bio, study guides, video, etc).Photo Credit: Dean Davis | — | ||||||
| 10/14/24 | ![]() Jos Charles | Jos Charles is author of the poetry collections a Year & other poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), feeld, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions, 2018), and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). She teaches as a part of Randolph College's low-residency MFA program and resides in Long Beach, CA.Links:Jos Charles' websiteBio and Poems at Poets.orga Year & other poems and feeld at Milkweed EditionsTwo poems at The Adroit JournalFive poems at Frontier Poetry | — | ||||||
| 9/3/24 | ![]() Amish Trivedi | Amish Trivedi is the author of three books. His most recent is FuturePanic (Co•Im•Press, 2021). His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. Trivedi earned an MFA from Brown University and a PhD in English and Critical Theory from Illinois State University. He's an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Delaware.Links:Read this episode's poems (along with several others):"Green Boots" at The Brooklyn Rail"Watch the Corners" at Black Sun Lit"Number Nine" and "Dying" at The Kenyon ReviewAmish Trivedi's websiteAmish Trivedi above/ground press AWP offsite reading 2023 | — | ||||||
| 8/8/24 | ![]() Anna Laura Reeve: A Reading and Conversation | Anna Laura Reeve is the author of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility (Belle Point Press, 2023). Winner of the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Salamander, Terrain.org, and others. She lives and gardens near the Tennessee Overhill region, traditional land of the Eastern Cherokee.Links:Anna Laura Reeve's websiteReaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility at Belle Point Press"Sara Moore Wagner on Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility," a book review at Still"Look at Everything" and "Children of Asylum Seekers" at The Racket"Playing the Washboard" and "Sprouting Wand" at Canary"Desire" in Josephine Quarterly | — | ||||||
| 7/3/24 | ![]() Zachary Schomburg and Gertrude Stein | Zachary Schomburg is a poet, painter, and a publisher for Octopus Books, a small independent poetry press. He earned a BA from the College of the Ozarks and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of six books of poems including, most recently, Fjords vol. 2, published by Black Ocean in 2021 and a novel, Mammother, published by Featherproof Books in 2017. Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1874. She attended Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins Medical School. In 1903, she moved to Paris where she eventually began writing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She became an influential figure in the worlds of art and literature, and her home became a gathering place for artists and writers like Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Max Jacob. She died near Paris in July of 1946.Links:Read "The Cliff Floats Low" at Sixth FinchRead "Tender Buttons [Apple]" at Poets.orgZachary SchomburgZachary Schomburg's websiteBio and bio at Poetryfoundation.org"Moving a Plane Around a Living Room: In Conversation with Zachary Schomburg" in TimberTwo poems at JellyfishGertrude Stein Bio and poems at Poetryfoundation.org"Gertrude Stein - Author & Poet: Mini Bio" from BiographyBio and poems at Poets.orgMentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser | — | ||||||
| 6/3/24 | ![]() A Reading and Conversation with Linda Parsons | Poet, playwright, and essayist Linda Parsons is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Terrain, The Chattahoochee Review, Baltimore Review, Shenandoah, and others. Her sixth collection, Valediction, contains poems and prose. Five of her plays have been produced by Flying Anvil Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee. Links:Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation"Poet Linda Parsons Launches Her Latest Work, 'Valediction'" in Inside of Knoxville"Valediction: Poems and Prose" in Southern Literary Review"Travels with My Father" in Still: The JournalTwo poems at Terrain.org"Therapy Dog" at Verse DailyTwo poems at Vox PopuliMentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser | — | ||||||
| 4/29/24 | ![]() Todd Davis | Todd Davis is the author of seven books of poetry. His most recent collections are Coffin Honey and Native Species. His book Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Michigan State University Press in August of 2024. He has won the Midwest Book Award, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and the Bloomsburg University Book Prize. His poems appear in such journals and magazines as Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Orion, Southern Humanities Review, and Western Humanities Review. He is an emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.Links:Read "For a Stray Dog near the Paper Mill in Tyrone, Pennsylvania" in 32 PoemsRead "Burn Barrel" at BroadsidedDitch Memory: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in August 2024"A Nature Poet Grapples with Life at the Edge of the Climate Crisis," an interview in Allegheny FrontTodd Davis' websiteBio and Poems at the Poetry FoundationTwo poems in North American ReviewThree poems at Terrain.org"Salvelinus fontinalis," a video poemPodcast archive for Notes from the Allegheny Front | — | ||||||
| 4/1/24 | ![]() Iliana Rocha and Delmira Agustini | Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. She is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for her book The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez (Tupelo Press). Her first book, Karankawa, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Best New Poets anthology, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latin American Literature Today, and many others. She has won fellowships from CantoMundo and MacDowell. She serves as Poetry Co-Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal, and she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee.Delmira Agustini is considered one of the most important South American poets of the 20th century. She was born to upper-middle-class parents in Montevideo, Uruguay in October of 1886. She began writing poetry at the age of 10, and her first major work, El Libro Blanco, was published in 1907, when she was just 20 years old. She went on to publish several other books that were well-received by writers and critics. Links:Read "Still Life," "Houston," and "Landscape with Graceland Crumbling in My Hands"Read "Explosión" in Spanish and EnglishIliana RochaIliana Rocha's websiteBio and poems at the Poetry Foundation's website"The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez" in New York Times Magazine"Mexican American Sonnet" at Poets.org"Three Poems" in Latin American Literature Today“like the building that reflects his death in every window: A Conversation with Iliana Rocha about The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez” — curated by Tiffany Troy in Tupelo QuarterlyDelmira AgustiniBio and "The Vampire" at Poets.orgSix Poems by Delmira Agustini (translated by Valerie Martinez) at Drunken Boat | — | ||||||
| 3/5/24 | ![]() Harold Whit Williams | Harold Whit Williams is a poet and longtime guitarist for the indie rock band Cotton Mather. He's the recipient of the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the 2014 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, as well as multiple Pushcart nominations. Williams is currently cataloging the KUT Radio Collection for the University of Texas Libraries, all the while writing, recording, and performing his solo music under the moniker Daily Worker. Links:Read “Early Recordings: Volume 1;” “Caught by the Indian Summer Train;” and “Participation Trophy”Harold Whit William's websiteDaily Worker at Radio Gurl Records"Holding out for Nothing" music video by Daily Worker"Premonitions at a Funeral" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" at JuxtaProseFour poems at The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature"Blues Dreams," winner of The Mississippi Review Poetry PrizeFollow Harold Whit Williams on Facebook | — | ||||||
| 12/21/23 | ![]() Denton Loving and D.H. Lawrence | Denton Loving is the author of Crimes Against Birds (Main Street Rag) and Tamp (Mercer University Press). He is also the editor of Seeking Its Own Level: an anthology of writings about water (MotesBooks). He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. His work has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, The Kenyon Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Threepenny Review, and Ecotone. He is a co-founder and editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf. D.H. Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire in England, and he died in 1930 at Vence in the south of France. Though Lawrence is best known for his novels—he’s the author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and nearly a dozen others—he also published short stories, plays, essays, criticism, and more than a dozen collections of poetry. Links:Read "Copperhead," "Foundation," and "Hurtling"Read "Humming-Bird"Denton LovingDenton Loving's website"Five Poems by Denton Loving" at Salvation South"Three Poems by Denton Loving" at Harvard Divinity Bulletin"Under the Chestnut Tree" at EcotoneVideo: WANA (Writers Association of Northern Appalachia) Live! Reading Series featuring Denton LovingReview of Tamp at Southern Review of BooksD.H. LawrenceBio, Poems, and Prose at The Poetry FoundationBio and Poems at Poetry.orgMentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser | — | ||||||
| 11/29/23 | ![]() Hank Lazer | Hank Lazer has published thirty-four books of poetry; his latest books are P I E C E S, When the Time Comes, and field recordings of mind in morning. In 2014, he retired from the University of Alabama after 37 years as a professor and an administrator. He continues to teach innovative seminars on Zen Buddhism and Radical Approaches to the Arts for the University of Alabama's Blount Scholars Program. In 2015, Lazer won The Harper Lee Award, Alabama’s highest literary award for lifetime achievement.Read "Duncan Farm November Meditation" and section 8 from The New SpiritHank Lazer's websiteRecordings at PennSound Interview on Bookmark with Don NobleEleven poems at PlumeFive poems at Interim"'Furnishings in the House of the Voice': An Interview with Hank Lazerby Lisa Russ Spaar"Mentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser | — | ||||||
| 10/30/23 | ![]() Jenny Sadre-Orafai | Jenny Sadre-Orafai is a poet and essayist and the author of Dear Outsiders and three other poetry collections. Her poetry has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, Ninth Letter, and The Cortland Review. Her prose has appeared in The Rumpus, Fourteen Hills, and The Los Angeles Review. She co-founded and co-edits Josephine Quarterly and teaches creative writing at Kennesaw State University. Links:Read "Occupation Interview," "Tragedy Lesson," and "Souvenirs for Locals"Jenny Sadre-Orafai's websiteThree Poems at $"I Become More Animal When I'm Grieving: A Conversation with Jenny Sadre-Orafi" at The RumpusVideo: "Hard Hat Reading: Jenny Sadre-Orafai" at Poets HouseVideo: "Jenny Sadre-Orafai reads at the SAFTA Reading Series""In Their Own Words: Jenny Sadre-Orafai on 'Queen of Cups'" at Poetry Society of AmericaJosephine QuarterlyMentioned in this episode:KnoxCountyLibrary.orgThank you for listening and sharing this podcast. Explore life-changing resources and events, sign up for newsletters, follow us on social media, and more through our website, www.knoxcountylibrary.org.Rate & review on Podchaser | — | ||||||
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