Chattanooga Events
Little brown Jug, Audubon Acres.
Many of you have already received a free PDF of my chapbook, Postcard from Hiwassee Refuge. This is a free promotional product, so feel free to print a copy or share the document with others. It will form the first portion of a book I am working on. If you have not received a free copy and would like one, please reply to this message and I will send it as an attached file.
The rest of this story is primarily for local people here in Chattanooga, but others may find it interesting.
Poetry and Poverty will take place at the Townsend Atelier Art Gallery, in Arts Build on 11th Street. At 6:30 on March 20, Moll King will present poems about housing and homelessness from her book, As You Did to the Leased of These.
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga’s workshop Meacham Writers Workshop will include community authors this year. All Meacham events are free and open to the public.
The Thursday, March 21 reading is a celebration of UTC Alumni, including poet Cynthia Young, a former officer of the Chattanooga Writers’ Guild and faculty member of Covenant College. Alice Smith, LS McKee, and Emilia Philips will also read. This reading takes place at Arts Build.
Friday, March 22. I am pleased to participate in a four-author reading at the Meacham Writers Workshop. I will read my poetry at noon in the Student Center’s Raccoon Mountain Room at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. J. Kasper Kramer, Thomas Balazas, and Russell Helms will also read.
The Friday evening presentation will focus on community authors, including KB Ballentine, author of several books of poetry and organizer of the Open Mic at Barnes and Noble. Earl Braggs, Paul Luikart, Trenna Sharp, and Meacham Fellow Christina Catherine Martinez will also read.
Workshops will take place on Saturday. https://www.utc.edu/arts-and-sciences/english/meachamwriters, but the registration deadline has passed.
More of my presentations are upcoming as well.
My generative nature writing workshops on the first Thursday of each month continue at Audubon Acres. Fees support the Chattanooga Audubon Society and advance registration is required. https://www.chattanoogaaudubon.org/writing.html
Sunday, April 21. I am pleased to be included as a presenter at the annual Trails and Trilliums Festival offered by the Friends of The Park. The festival will take place at the conference center at Beersheba Springs, Tennessee.
https://www.trailsandtrilliums.org/
My presentation summarizes the literary works of Robert Sparks Walker, founder of the Chattanooga Audubon Society and namesake of the Robert Sparks Walker Lifetime Achievement Award presented yearly by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation.
Other presentations in April are still in the planning stage.