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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.
Gardner Dorton is a poet writing at the foothills of the Smoky Mountains in Knoxville, TN. His poems have appeared in journals and anthologies like Narrative, The Florida Review, Rattle, and The Greensboro Review. His chapbook, Stone Fruit, was published by Glass Poetry Press in 2021. Gardner writes about queerness, bipolar disorder, and the South. Visit his website and say hello at www.gardnerdorton.com
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.
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517 Union Ave, Knoxville, TN, United States, Tennessee 37902
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