All Over the Page features poet Jesse Graves

Schedule

Mon, 13 Apr, 2026 at 06:30 pm

Location

500 W Church Ave, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902 | Knoxville, TN

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In observance of National Poetry Month, All Over the Page is pleased to host Jesse Graves for a reading followed by a question and answer period.
Jesse 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.
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500 W Church Ave, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902

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