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Linda Parsons holds a BA and an MA in English from the University of Tennessee. She's the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. Parsons has published poems in The Georgia Review, The Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, The Chattahoochee Review, Southern Poetry Review, Baltimore Review, and Shenandoah, among others. Her fifth poetry collection is Candescent, which was published by Iris Press in 2019. She has received grants from the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Knoxville Arts Council, was inducted into the East Tennessee Writers Hall of Fame in 2011, and she’s won the Tennessee Writers Alliance award in poetry, among other awards and honors. William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) was born in Dublin, Ireland. In addition to writing poetry, Yeats was also a playwright; he wrote 26 plays that were performed by the Irish Literary Theatre. He was politically outspoken, and, beginning in 1922, he served six years as a senator in the Irish Free State. He’s considered by many to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century. Links Read https://files.captivate.fm/library/62205443-3e6c-4657-9d0b-978cf7fc388e/Midsummer-Linda-20Parsons.pdf ("Midsummer") Read https://theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v11-parsons.html?fbclid=IwAR1Dryrauu3JYZH5__YSR6AlWVsGBouUKGzricSGLZwMUMFauAp4fdFWt7s ("Everywhere and Nowhere at Once") Read https://poets.org/poem/lake-isle-innisfree ("The Lake Isle of Innisfree") Linda Parsons https://irisbooks.com/product/candescent/ (Candescent at Iris Press) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/linda-parsons (Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation) https://www.terrain.org/poetry/24/marion.htm (Two poems at Terrain.org) http://www.versedaily.org/2020/therapydog.shtml ("Therapy Dog" at Verse Daily) https://voxpopulisphere.com/2021/05/12/linda-parsons-two-poems/ (Two poems at Vox Populi) William Butler Yeats https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/william-butler-yeats (Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation) https://poets.org/poet/w-b-yeats (Bio and poems at Poets.org) https://poetryarchive.org/poet/william-butler-yeats/ (Hear more W.B. Yeats poems at The Poetry Archive) Mentioned in this episode: KnoxCountyLibrary.org Thank 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. https://pods.knoxlib.org/rate (Rate & review on Podchaser)

Matthew Wimberley grew up in the Blue Ridge Mountains. He’s the author of Daniel Boone's Window and All the Great Territories. Wimberley has won the Crab Orchard Poetry Series First Book Award, the Weatherford Award, the William Matthews Prize, and his work was chosen for the 2016 Best New Poets Anthology. He's an Assistant Professor of English at Lees-McRae College in Banner Elk, North Carolina.   Herman Melville (1819-1891) was born in New York City. He's best known as the author of novels like Moby Dick and White-Jacket, along with short fiction including “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and “Benito Cereno.” However, Melville spent decades writing poetry exclusively, and critics have ranked him, alongside Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson, as one of the best poets of the 19th century.    Links:  Read https://files.captivate.fm/library/d09902b9-0397-4733-a1a9-c9bc3c5ae81c/and-20so-20it-20ends-20with-20the-20cry-20of-20a-20nuthatch-20m.pdf ("And So It Ends with the Cry of a Nuthatch on the First Day of Spring") Read https://poets.org/poem/shiloh-requiem ("Shiloh: A Requiem") Matthew Wimberley "https://poets.org/poem/celebrated-colors-local-sunsets (The Celebrated Colors of the Local Sunsets" at Poets.org) https://www.rattle.com/tabula-rasa-by-matthew-wimberley/ (“Tabula Rasa” in Rattle) https://www.theparisamerican.com/matthew-wimberley-poetry.html (“Elegy at Night” in The Paris-American)  https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v19n1/poetry/wimberley-m/index.shtml (Three poems in Blackbird) https://www.narrativemagazine.com/authors/matthew-wimberley (Four poems in Narrative) http://dzancbooks.squarespace.com/collagist-blog/2016/3/14/if-there-is-anything-to-show-you-an-interview-with-matthew-w.html (“’If There Is Anything to Show You:’ An Interview with Matthew Wimberley”) Herman Melville https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/herman-melville (Bio and poems at Poetryfoundation.org) https://poets.org/poet/herman-melville (Bio and poems at Poets.org) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Herman-Melville (“Herman Melville: American Author" at Britannica.com”) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/07/29/herman-melville-at-home ("Herman Melville at Home" in The New Yorker) Music is by https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/ (Chad Crouch) Mentioned in this episode: KnoxCountyLibrary.org Thank 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. https://pods.knoxlib.org/rate (Rate & review on Podchaser)

Amelia Martens is the author of four chapbooks and the full-length collection The Spoons in the Grass are There to Dig a Moat. Her work has appeared in The Indianapolis Review, Cream City Review, Diode, Southern Humanities Review, Plume, Southern Indiana Review, and many others. She serves as the Associate Literary Editor for Exit 7: A Journal of Literature and Art and she co-curates the Rivertown Reading Series in Paducah, Kentucky. Marianne Moore (1887-1972) was born near St. Louis, Missouri, raised in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and she graduated from Bryn Mawr College. Early on, she worked as a schoolteacher and as an assistant at The New York Public Library. From 1925 to 1929, she was the editor of The Dial, an influential literary magazine. Her Collected Poems, published in 1951, won the Bollingen Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/eb120c7e-5463-485f-86af-1bc371e50ad1/Ameila-Martens-Poems-2.pdf (Read "The Apology" and "The Secret Lives of Cows") https://poets.org/poem/jelly-fish (Read "A Jelly-Fish") Amelia Martens https://ameliamartens.com/ (Amelia Martens’ website) https://www.wkms.org/arts-culture/2018-01-03/something-from-nothing-amelia-martens-a-natural-born-poet (“Amelia Martens, a Natural Born Poet,” Something from Nothing podcast at WKMS )  http://www.theamericanjournalofpoetry.com/v7-martens.html (Four poems at The American Journal of Poetry) https://plumepoetry.com/author/martens-amelia/ (Two poems at Plume) http://diodepoetry.com/martens_amelia/ (Two poems at Diode) https://tinderboxpoetry.com/three-poems-2 (Three poems at Tenderbox) Marianne Moore https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/marianne-moore (Poems and bio at the Poetry Foundation's website ) https://poets.org/poet/marianne-moore (Poems and bio at Poets.org) https://lithub.com/in-praise-of-the-difficult-on-marianne-moore-defiant-poet-of-complexity/ (“In Praise of the Difficult: On Marianne Moore, Defiant Poet of Complexity” at LitHub) https://www.nypl.org/blog/2021/03/22/nypls-marianne-moore-writing-her-way-onto-the-shelves ("NYPL's Marianne Moore: Writing Her Way Onto the Shelves" at NYPL.org) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHw-9EEMowU (Marianne Moore documentary from the Voices and Visions series (on YouTube)) Music is by https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/ (Chad Crouch) Mentioned in this episode: KnoxCountyLibrary.org Thank 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. https://pods.knoxlib.org/rate (Rate & review on Podchaser)

Ashley M. Jones is Alabama's first African American Poet Laureate, and she's also the youngest. Her books are Magic City Gospel, dark // thing, and REPARATIONS NOW! She teaches creative writing at the Alabama School of Fine Arts and also at the Low Residency MFA program at Converse University. Phillis Wheatley Peters was abducted in West Africa and brought to Boston where she was sold as a slave when she was around seven year old. Her first and only book, Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, was published in 1773. She was in poor health for most of her life, and she died in her early thirties. According to the Smithsonian Institute, she was the “first American slave, the first person of African descent, and only the third colonial American woman to have her work published.” https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/ (Music )by Chad Crouch Links: Read the poems https://inspicio.fiu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Ashley-M-Jones-V2.pdf (Think of a Marvelous Thing / It’s the Same as Having Wings at Inspicio Arts) https://main.oxfordamerican.org/magazine/item/1698-four-poems ("Harriet Tubman Crosses the Mason-Dixon for the First Time" at Oxford American) https://poets.org/poem/being-brought-africa-america ("On Being Brought from Africa to America" at poets.org) Ashley M. Jones https://ashleymjonespoetry.com/ (Ashley M. Jones’ website) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/ashley-jones (Jones’ Bio and Poems at the Poetry Foundation ) https://www.npr.org/2021/09/08/1031840999/ashley-m-jones-alabama-poet-laureate-reparations-now (“Alabama's First Black Poet Laureate Takes A Personal Approach To 'Reparations” on NPR) https://www.reckonsouth.com/ashley-m-jones-alabamas-youngest-first-black-and-possibly-dopest-poet-laureate-on-the-need-for-reparations-now-tomorrow-and-forever/ (Interview with Ashley M. Jones at The Reckon) https://therumpus.net/2018/08/01/the-rumpus-interview-with-ashley-m-jones/ (“How to Become a Poet: A Conversation with Ashley M. Jones” at The Rumpus) Phillis Wheatley Peters https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/phillis-wheatley (Bio and Poems at the Poetry Foundation ) https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/finding-multiple-truths-in-works-enslaved-poet-phillis-wheatley-180975163/ (“The Multiple Truths in the Works of Enslaved Poet Phillis Wheatley” by Drea Brown) http://www.phillis-wheatley.org/ (Phillis Wheatley Historical Society) https://www.masshist.org/features/endofslavery/wheatley (Wheatley’s Bio and Poems at Massachusetts Historical Society Collections Online) Mentioned in this episode: KnoxCountyLibrary.org Thank 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. https://pods.knoxlib.org/rate (Rate & review on Podchaser)

Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poetry, stories, novels, essays, translations, and plays. She has won The Pushcart Prize, The Fence Modern Poets Series Award, and The Leslie Scalapino Prize for Innovative Women Performance Artists. With Carmen Maria Machado, she was the guest editor of Best American Experimental Writing 2020. With Johannes Göransson, she co-edits the international press Action Books and teaches at the University of Notre Dame. Links: Read today’s poem at BOMB: https://bombmagazine.org/articles/two-poems-joyelle-mcsweeney/ (“Two Poems by Joyelle McSweeney”) https://www.joyellemcsweeney.com/ (Joyelle McSweeney’s Website) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/joyelle-mcsweeney (Bio and Poems at the Poetry Foundation) https://poets.org/poem/simon-good (Poems at Poets.org) https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/17/magazine/poem-kingdom.html (“Kingdom” in The New York Times Magazine) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/04/13/joyelle-mcsweeneys-poetry-of-catastrophe (“Joyelle McSweeney’s Poetry of Catastrophe” in The New Yorker ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53YJ_Ijvgqc ( “A Poetry Reading by Joyelle McSweeney in conversation with David Baker and Kendra Sullivan”) https://actionbooks.org/ (Action Books, Edited by McSweeney And Johannes Göransson)

Janet McAdams is the author of the novel Red Weather and the poetry collections Feral and The Island of Lost Luggage, which won an American Book Award. Her chapbook of prose poems Seven Boxes for the Country After won the Wick Chapbook competition and was published in 2016. She teaches at Kenyon College, where she is the Robert P. Hubbard Chair in Poetry. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/e108a721-ad8b-4f64-a609-3321c1b01e92/thanatoptic-janet-mcadams.pdf (Read "Thanatoptic") https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/janet-mcadams (Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation) https://poets.org/poem/lie-0 ("Lie" at Poem-a-Day) https://shenandoahliterary.org/681/janet-mcadams/ (Interview at Shenandoah’s website) http://www.southernhumanitiesreview.com/_____-and-the-elders-by-janet-mcadams.html ("______and the Elders” at Southern Humanities Review)

Jesse Graves is a Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at East Tennessee State University. His poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Southern Poetry Review, and other literary magazines and anthologies. He has published four books of poetry and his book Said-Songs: Essays on Poetry and Place is forthcoming from Mercer University Press in 2022. Graves received his PhD in English from the University of Tennessee and his MFA in Creative Writing from Cornell University. He has won the Book of the Year in Poetry Award from the Appalachian Writers’ Association and the Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award for Appalachian Writing. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/668124c0-1698-4889-ac41-b108e5539a3d/in-a-familar-city-and-sage-grass-brushing-against-my-shins-jess.pdf (Read "In a Familiar City" and "Sage Grass Brushing Against My Shins") https://jessegravespoetry.wordpress.com/ (Jesse Graves’ website) https://chapter16.org/an-unbroken-thread (Interview with Linda Parsons at Chapter 16) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUc_e6DSliw (YouTube reading through West Virginia Wesleyan MFA Program Summer Reading Series ) https://jessegravespoetry.wordpress.com/poems/ (A collection of Jesse Grave’s poems available online) https://www.facebook.com/JohnsonCityPublicLibrary/videos/poet-to-poet-interview-a-conversation-with-jesse-graves-and-rita-sims-quillen/655903492030350/ (Poet-to-Poet Interview: A Conversation with Jesse Graves and Rita Sims Quillen, hosted by Johnson City Public Library)

Bruce Alford’s work has appeared in the African American Review, Imagination & Place Press, The Comstock Review, and elsewhere. He teaches poetry at Louisiana State University. Before working in academia, he was an inner-city missionary and journalist. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/939f195f-1704-4f75-8eea-4c690cf57750/from-alford-s-devotional-bruce-alford.pdf (Read "from Alford's Devotional") https://brucealfordcom.wordpress.com/ (Bruce Alford’s website) https://sicklitmagazine.com/2016/07/18/poems-by-bruce-alford/ (Poems at SickLit ) https://stormcellar.org/2017/09/15/bruce-alford-perfect/ (“Perfect” at Storm Cellar) https://www.writersforum.org/news_and_reviews/review_archives.html/article/2008/05/05/terminal-switching (Review of Terminal Switching at Alabama Writers Forum)

Robert Penn Warren is primarily known as the author of the great American novel All the King’s Men, but he’s also a well-respected poet, and was the USA’s first Poet Laureate. Though he grew up in Guthrie, KY, he crossed the state line to go to high school in Clarksville, TN. In 1921, he began his studies at Vanderbilt University and joined a group of poets who called themselves the Fugitives. He went on to publish over 40 books, and he is the only writer to win the Pulitzer Prize for both fiction and poetry. Links: https://poets.org/poem/vision-0 (Read "Vision" and other poems by Robert Penn Warren at Poets.org) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/robert-penn-warren (Biography and poems at the Poetry Foundation) https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/warren/ (Online Resources (Library of Congress Web Guide))

Chris Tonelli is a founding editor of the independent poetry press http://www.birdsllc.com/ (Birds, LLC); co-director of the https://ncbookfestival.com/ (NC Book Festival); and author of five chapbooks and two full-length collections of poetry, most recently https://www.barrelhousemag.com/shopone/whatever-stasis-by-chris-tonelli (Whatever Stasis (Barrelhouse Books, 2018)). He works in https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ (the Libraries at NC State) and is the co-owner of https://www.facebook.com/soandsobooks (So & So Books) in downtown Raleigh, where he lives with his wife, Allison, and two kids, Miles and Vera. Other Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/70af915b-6a9d-4413-9199-31425e87ac1b/wide-bird-and-pluto-chris-tonelli.pdf (Read "Wide Bird" and "Pluto" by Chris Tonelli) https://www.birdsllc.com/authors/chris-tonelli (Bio and links at Birds, LLC) https://www.napowrimo.net/the-na-glopowrimo-interview-with-chris-tonelli/ (Interview at NaPoWriMo.net) https://poets.org/poem/test-company (from “A Test of Company” at poets.org)

Adelaide Crapsey is best known as the inventor of the American http://cinquain.org/ (cinquain). She was born in 1878 in Brooklyn, NY, and she grew up in Rochester. In 1903, she began to show symptoms of tuberculosis which would eventually take her life in 1914. In spite of her illness, Crapsey attended the American Academy’s School of Classical Study in Rome, and then eventually returned to the U.S. to teach at Smith College. Shortly after her death, her first book of poems was published. It was called simply Verse. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/239835db-6f02-4000-850b-cf550cf7bcf9/amaze-and-niagra-adelaide-crapsey.pdf (Read "Amaze" and "Niagra" by Adelaide Crapsey) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/adelaide-crapsey (Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation's website) https://poets.org/poet/adelaide-crapsey (Adelaide Crapsey at Poets.org ) http://cinquain.org/ (Cinquain.org)

Amy Wright is the author of three books of poetry and six chapbooks. Wright’s essays have appeared in The Georgia Review, Fourth Genre, Ninth Letter, Brevity, and elsewhere. She has been awarded two Peter Taylor Fellowships to the Kenyon Review Writer’s Workshop, an Individual Artist Grant from the Tennessee Arts Commission, and a fellowship to Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her nonfiction debut, Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round, is forthcoming in 2021 from Sarabande Books. She teaches at Austin Peay State University.  "Habitat" is used with permission by the author. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/8f159bff-4ec5-47f5-af89-52102f602c5f/habitat-amy-wright.pdf (Read "Habitat" by Amy Wright) http://www.awrightawright.com/ (Amy Wright’s website ) https://www.sarabandebooks.org/titles-20192039/paper-concert-a-conversation-in-the-round-amy-wright (Forthcoming book: Paper Concert: A Conversation in the Round by Amy Wright) http://www.versedaily.org/2016/yamweevil.shtml ("Yam Weevil” at Verse Daily) https://kenyonreview.org/kr-online-issue/2020-marapr/selections/amy-wright-656342/ (“Prey,” an essay at Kenyon Review Online) https://newbooksnetwork.com/amy-wright-cracker-sonnets-brickroad-poetry-press-2016/ (Review of Cracker Sonnets and interview at New Books Network )

Prince Bush is an MFA student at Western Kentucky University. His poems have appeared in many literary magazines, including The Cincinnati Review, Cream City Review, Poet Lore, Pleiades, Puerto del Sol, and others. He was a 2019 Fellow at Bucknell Seminar for Undergraduate Poets and an Erastus Milo Cravath Presidential Scholar at Fisk University.  "Lithium" first appeared in Pleiades; "On Truth" first appeared in Sporklet. Both poems are used with permission by the author. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/96829591-063b-46f5-a825-b5148fa7d850/lithium-and-on-truth-prince-bush-4.pdf (Read "Lithium" and "On Truth" by Prince Bush) https://www.prince-bush.com/ (Prince Bush’s Website) https://www.rattle.com/middle-of-protesting-by-prince-bush/ (“Middle of Protesting” at Rattle) http://www.softblow.org/princebush.html (Poems at Softblow) https://counterclock.org/prince-bush (Poems at Counterclock) Music: "https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/field-report-vol-vi-bayocean-instrumental/just-a-memory-now-instrumental (Just A Memory Now (Instrumental))" by https://www.soundofpicture.com/ (Chad Crouch) is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (CC) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (BY NC 4.0) with modifications

David Baker is the author and editor of 18 books, including 12 books of poetry. His most recent book is Swift: New and Selected Poems, published by W. W. Norton.  Baker teaches at Denison University and he frequently serves on the faculty of the MFA program for writers at Warren Wilson College. He is the Poetry Editor of The Kenyon Review.   "Swift" is used with permission by the author. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/f7e70651-8396-44ea-9c9e-dc6efc1ce75e/swift-david-baker.pdf (Read "Swift" by David Baker) http://www.davidbaker.website/ (David Baker’s Website) https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/poetry-that-bears-witness-to-a-changing-natural-world ("Poetry That Bears Witness to a Changing Natural World,” a review of Swift: New and Selected Poems in The New Yorker) https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/an-oboe-at-night-among-trees-a-conversation-about-poetry-with-david-baker-curated-by-victoria-chang/ (Interview at Tupelo Quarterly) https://www.vqronline.org/people/david-baker (Poems and Essays at Virginia Quarterly Review Online ) https://www.amazon.com/Swift-Selected-Poems-David-Baker/dp/0393358178/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1616017264&sr=8-1 (Swift: New and Selected Poems at Amazon.com ) https://www.cornell.edu/video/poetry-reading-by-david-baker (David Baker reading at CornellCast) Music: "https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/field-report-vol-vi-bayocean-instrumental/just-a-memory-now-instrumental (Just A Memory Now (Instrumental))" by https://www.soundofpicture.com/ (Chad Crouch) is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (CC) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (BY NC 4.0) with modifications

Tyler Mills’ poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Guardian, The New Republic, and others. She’s published two books and has two chapbooks forthcoming. Mills teaches for Sarah Lawrence College’s Writing Institute and she edits https://theaccountmagazine.com/ (The Account,) an online literary magazine. Look for Tyler Mills’ books in our online catalog or call us at the Reference Desk at Lawson McGhee Library. Today's poem, "Oak," appeared in the January 2021 issue of Poetry Magazine. You can read the poem on the https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/154981/oak-5fd041ae9d0e0 (Poetry Foundation's website) or in the links below. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/ee82ed5a-3da0-4aa2-b48d-b1de45006f21/tyler-mills-oak.pdf (Read "Oak" by Tyler Mills) https://tylermills.com/ (Tyler Mills’ website) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/tyler-mills (Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation) https://lithub.com/the-poetic-half-life-of-one-familys-nuclear-history/ (“The Poetic Half-Life of One Family’s Nuclear History: Tyler Mills on Her Grandfather's Role in the Bombing of Nagasaki” in Literary Hub ) https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-62922-105-2 (Review of Hawk Parable at Publishers Weekly) https://pinwheeljournal.com/poets/tyler-mills/ (Poems at Pinwheel) https://blackbird.vcu.edu/v13n1/poetry/mills_t/index.shtml (Poems in Blackbird )  https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/tag/tyler-mills/ (Introduction, reviews, and visual art at Tupelo Quarterly) Music: https://tylermills.com/ (")https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/field-report-vol-vi-bayocean-instrumental/just-a-memory-now-instrumental (Just A Memory Now (Instrumental))" by https://www.soundofpicture.com/ (Chad Crouch) is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (CC) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (BY NC 4.0) with modifications

Cintia Santana’s work has appeared in the Best New Poets 2020 anthology, The Iowa Review, The Kenyon Review, and many other literary journals. She was awarded fellowships from CantoMundo, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and the Djerassi Resident Artists Program. She teaches literary translation, as well as poetry and fiction workshops in Spanish, at Stanford University. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/43d3f64c-7a32-4087-861b-372b7720d4ac/ode-to-the-j-and-f-cintia-santana.pdf (Read "Ode to the J" and "[F]") https://www.cintiasantana.com/ (Cintia Santana’s Website ) https://kenyonreview.org/conversation/cintia-santana/ (Interview at The Kenyon Review) https://kenyonreview.org/writer/cintia-santana/ (Poems at Kenyon Review Online ) https://harvardreview.org/content/kintsugi/ (“Kintsugi” at Harvard Review Online) https://www.bpj.org/contributors/santana-cintia (Poems at Beloit Poetry Journal) https://pleiadesmag.com/featured-poem-plosive-by-cintia-santana/ (“Plosive” (visual poem) at Pleiades) Music: "https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/field-report-vol-vi-bayocean-instrumental/just-a-memory-now-instrumental (Just A Memory Now (Instrumental))" by https://www.soundofpicture.com/ (Chad Crouch) is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (CC) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (BY NC 4.0) with modifications

Maurice Manning has published seven books of poetry. His first book, Lawrence Booth’s Book of Visions, won the Yale Younger Poets Award, and his fourth, The Common Man, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.  Be sure to look for books by Manning in our online catalog. Links: https://files.captivate.fm/library/e9cfd638-efe6-4ad4-8139-79e8cc11c1dc/one-view-of-time-maurice-manning.pdf (Read "One View of Time" by Maurice Manning) https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/maurice-manning (Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation) https://gardenandgun.com/feature/poet-maurice-manning-voice-wilderness/ (Article in Garden & Gun) https://plumepoetry.com/maurice-manning-railsplitter/ (Interview at Plume) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F802DnOTN8s (Manning Reading at the Sewanee Writer's Conference (Video)) Music: "https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Chad_Crouch/field-report-vol-vi-bayocean-instrumental/just-a-memory-now-instrumental (Just A Memory Now (Instrumental))" by https://www.soundofpicture.com/ (Chad Crouch) is licensed under https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 (CC BY NC 4.0) with modifications

Watch for an upcoming poetry podcast produced by Knox County Public Library. It’s called The Beat. David Orr, a poetry columnist for the New York Times Book Review, describes a common idea that some people have about poetry—that understanding it "is like solving a calculus problem while being zapped with a cattle prod." Or maybe worse, we hear people give (again quoting David Orr) "testimonials announcing poetry’s ability to derange the senses, make us lose ourselves in rapture, dance naked under the full moon, and so forth." We’ll try to avoid all of that. Each show will introduce a new poet and you’ll get to hear poems being read aloud by the poets themselves, usually. The first episode of “The Beat” will air in a couple of weeks. Please tune in for the show. And if you aren't already a subscriber, you should do that in your favorite podcast app.

Dr. Melanie Mayes shares the alarm and urgency of The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells in this episode of Books Sandwiched In. She explains how the author brings stark realities of our future climate into terrifying focus—the fragility of our situation and the myriad ways that our ability to survive is endangered by the climate we are creating. Wallace-Wells is a national fellow at the New America foundation and a columnist and deputy editor at New York magazine. He was previously the deputy editor of The Paris Review. Mayes is a scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory researching, among other topics, the part of the carbon cycle that takes place in soils. Music credit: "Three Stories" by https://www.sessions.blue (Blue Dot Sessions), CC BY-NC 4.0 rfcmVqTU7M3IVtHCFfmH

Dr. Mark McGrail discusses Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company that Addicted America by Beth Macy for Books Sandwiched In. Macy reveals the relentless physical, structural and social forces behind the opioid crisis and how to work for the transformational change required to overcome them. Music credit: "Three Stories" by https://www.sessions.blue (Blue Dot Sessions), CC BY-NC 4.0 8G3ofTPxvoOWfuQYlJpl