Oct. 20, 2014

Providing comprehensive coverage of Tennessee's literary news and events
Editor's Note
Last month, Tennessee native Charles Wright was installed as the new Poet Laureate of the U.S, and last week the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, conferred on him an honorary degree. To mark that occasion we'll quote from a recent interview, in which USA Today asked Wright why poetry matters. His answer: "I knew someone was going to ask me that, and I spent all summer, three months in Montana, thinking about that, and I finally came up with an answer: I don't know. I really don't know. I know why it matters to me. I can't speak for anyone else. It changed my life. It gave me some valve for the emotional longings that I had as a young man and helped me bring together various independent thoughts that I had. I don't presume to speak for anyone else. But I'll speak for myself, which was it was the best thing that happened to me."  
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  • Review of The Great New Orleans Kidnapping Case by Michael A. Ross (reading at Parnassus Books in Nashville on 10/28)
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