Award winning author Leanne Tyler will read from her work 7 p.m., Monday, February 8, in the Hodges Library Auditorium. Tyler’s debut release, Victory’s Gate, was the 2007 American Rose winner of the Through the Garden Gate contest and was released electronically by The Wild Rose Press in December 2007. Finally in December 2009 the … Continued

Distinguished poet Hilda Raz will read from her works Monday, October 26, at 7 p.m. in the Hodges Library Auditorium. Hilda Raz is the Luschei editor of Prairie Schooner, and professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Her most recent books are All Odd and Splendid, poetry from Wesleyan … Continued

Students in UT’s Creative Writing Program compete annually for the John C. Hodges Graduate Writing Prizes in fiction and poetry. Winners will read from their award-winning works at Writers in the Library, Monday, April 13, at 7 pm in the Hodges Library auditorium. The prizes were endowed by the same long-time UT English professor, author … Continued

Writers in the Library and the UT Women’s Coordinating Council are co-sponsoring a performance of “Exposed,” a play by Jack E. Reese Writer in Residence Kali Meister. “Exposed” is a cross-genre play featuring monologues, songs, dance, poetry, and scene work featuring Kali Meister, George Pate, Michael Hudson, and Crystal Humphrey Bruaeneur. The play is a … Continued

Novelist and short story writer Richard Bausch will read from his works at Writers in the Library, 7 p.m., Monday, March 9, in the John C. Hodges Library auditorium. Bausch has published 18 novels and short story collections and he currently holds the Moss Chair of Excellence at the University of Memphis. His books include … Continued

Writers in the Library presents an evening of performance poetry with hip hop poets Rhea Sunshine and Black Atticus, Monday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in the John C. Hodges Library auditorium. These two talented young black poets from Knoxville are musicians as well as masters of the spoken word. Watch and listen to Rhea … Continued

Two writers with ties to East Tennessee will read from their works at the February 23rd Writers in the Library: poet/young adult writer Connie Green and poet Kristi Maxwell. Readings begin at 7 p.m., Monday, February 23, in the auditorium of the John C. Hodges Library on the University of Tennessee campus. Connie Jordan Green is … Continued

Renowned poet Paul Zimmer will read at Writers in the Library on Monday, February 16, 7 p.m., in the John C. Hodges Library auditorium. Zimmer worked for forty-five years in book publishing and sales, heading university presses at Georgia, Iowa, and Pittsburgh. After working hours, he still found time to write a significant body of … Continued

Don’t miss the launch of Marilyn Kallet’s new poetry collection at the first UT Writers in the Library reading of the spring semester. Dr. Kallet will perform poems from her new collection, Packing Light: New and Selected Poems (Black Widow Press, 2009) on Monday, February 2, at 7 p.m. in the Hodges Library auditorium on … Continued

…and here a few scorched teeth/from some martyred, unknown saint./The sky was a scroll of pain/— each star a sacred name!/I saw through time in that light./But I turned and blood rained down/and I turned and dipped and drank – from “The Death Mazurka” by Charles Fishman. Noted poet Charles Fishman will read poems on … Continued