Union Ave Books is excited to present Didi Jackson, Linda Parsons, and Gabriel Antonio Reed for an evening of poetry! This event will take place on Sunday, November 17th at 3pm at our bookstore. This is a free event. Please RSVP here so that we know to expect you.Didi Jackson is the author of the poetry collections My Infinity (2024) and Moon Jar (2020). Her poems have appeared in American Poetry Review, Bomb, The New Yorker, and Oxford American among other journals and magazines. She has had poems selected for Best American Poetry, Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-day, The Slow Down with Tracy K. Smith, and Together in Sudden Strangeness: America’s Poets Respond to the Pandemic. She is the recipient of the Robert H. Winner Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. She is a Dean’s Faculty Fellow at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee where she teaches creative writing. Most recently she completed her certification as a Tennessee Naturalist.
Poet, playwright, essayist, and editor, Linda Parsons is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. She is published in such journals as The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Terrain, The Chattahoochee Review, Shenandoah, and many others. Her sixth collection is Valediction: Poems and Prose. Five of her plays have been produced by Flying Anvil Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Gabriel Antonio Reed (he/him) is a poet from East Tennessee. He is pursuing his PhD at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, and holds an MFA from Hollins University. His work has appeared in the Kenyon Review and Seneca Review, The Ekphrastic Review, Susurrus, and El Nieuwe Acá. He is an assistant editor at Red Flag Poetry. He lives with his spouse, Maggie, and daughter, Eloise, who loves sparkling water.
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517 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902
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