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We've got a special one for you this May, when Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel of Alabama join us to celebrate their new poetry collection, Glass Cabin.Glass Cabin chronicles the thirteen years Tina Mozelle Braziel and James Braziel spent building their home out of secondhand tin, tornado-snapped power poles, and church glass on Hydrangea Ridge. Their alternating voices support one another like parts of their cabin—every board needs its nail, every window needs its frame. These poems explore the work it takes to measure cuts for stairs, to haul one ton of water up the mountain, and to write. It is also a meditation on hope, on frustration, and their place in the wilder parts of the world.
About the Authors:
Tina Mozelle Braziel is the author of Known by Salt (Anhinga Press), winner of the Philip Levine Prize for Poetry and the 2022 Alabama Library Association Author Award for poetry, and Rooted by Thirst (Porkbelly Press). She has been awarded a fellowship from the Alabama State Council on the Arts and an artist residency at Hot Springs National Park. As the Magic City Poetry Festival’s inaugural Eco Poet, she collaborated with the Cahaba River Society to develop eco-poetry curriculum and videos.
James Braziel grew up in South Georgia on his father’s farm. They had cattle, peanut and melon crops, and pines for cutting for pulpwood. Days were for working, nights for walking the dirt road that split the land. In winter, the sky. His writing comes from the humid air, the sand-grit of that place. James’ collection of stories, This Ditch-Walking Love, winner of the Tartt First Fiction Prize, is set in the Murphrees Valley section of the Cumberland Plateau where he now lives.
Plenty Downtown Bookshop is located at 48 W Broad St, Cookeville, Tennessee. Arrive by 6:45 to sign up for the open mic.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Plenty Downtown Bookshop, 39 W Spring St, Cookeville, TN 38501-3240, United States,Cookeville, Tennessee