October Poetry Night

Name: October Poetry Night
Start: 2024-10-10T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 517 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902

Schedule

Thu Oct 10 2024 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

517 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902 | Knoxville, TN

Union Ave Books is excited to present a Poetry Night, featuring Danita Dodson, William Woolfitt, and Sarah Harshbarger. This event will take place on October 10th from 6-8pm at our bookstore. This is a free event. Please RSVP via the ticket link.
Danita Dodson is a poet, educator, and literary scholar. Between Gone and Everlasting (2024) is her third book of poetry. Her debut collection is Trailing the Azimuth (2021), followed by her second collection, The Medicine Woods (2022). Dodson’s poems are anchored in the landscape and people of East Tennessee and have appeared in Salvation South, Amethyst Review, and elsewhere. At the Poetry Society of Tennessee’s annual festival in April 2024, her poem “Bits and Pieces” was awarded the first-place Best of Fest prize. She has published articles in various literary journals, including seminal scholarship on The Handmaid’s Tale. Dodson is also the co-editor of the pedagogical volume Teachers Teaching Nonviolence (2020). She has a PhD in English from the University of Southern Mississippi. A native of Sneedville, Tennessee, she loves to hike the woods of home and explores local history connected to the wilderness. Read more at www.danitadodson.com.
William Woolfitt grew up in Farmington, West Virginia. He is the author of four poetry collections, two story collections, and an essay collection. Ring of Earth (stories) was published by Madville Publishing in 2023; Eyes Moving Through the Dark (essays) is forthcoming from Orison Books. He attended Fairmont State University, Hollins University, and Penn State University, and lives in Southeast Tennessee.
Sarah Harshbarger is a PhD candidate at the University of Tennessee Knoxville, where she currently serves as editor-in-chief of Grist. Their stories have appeared in Hayden's Ferry Review, Passages North, The Sewanee Review, West Branch, and elsewhere.