Knox Pods Podcast
1) The Beat: Chris Barton and Peter Gizzi
Chris Barton is the author of the poetry chapbook A Finely Calibrated Apocalypse, published by Bottlecap Press in 2024. His writing has appeared in Epiphany, Peach Magazine, The Plenitudes, Hotel, and...Show More
2) The Beat: Charles Douthat and Robert Frost
Robert Frost was born in 1874 in San Francisco. When he was just ten years old, his father died, and Frost’s family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts to live with his paternal grandparents. Though Fros...Show More
3) The Beat: Matthew Minicucci and Brigit Pegeen Kelly
Matthew Minicucci is an award-winning author of four collections of poems including his most recent, Dual, published in 2023 by Acre Books. His poetry and essays have appeared widely in various public...Show More
4) The Beat: Sara Pirkle and Anya Krugovoy Silver
Sara Pirkle is a Southern poet, an identical twin, a breast cancer survivor, and a board game enthusiast. Her first full-length collection of poetry, The Disappearing Act, won the Adrienne Bond Award ...Show More
5) The Beat: Denton Loving Joins us Live for All Over the Page!
Recorded live, April 14, 2025. In celebration of National Poetry Month, Denton Loving joined us for Lawson McGhee Library's monthly book discussion group, All Over the Page.Denton Loving is the author...Show More
6) The Beat: Jennifer Horne and Thomas Hardy
Jennifer Horne served as the twelfth Poet Laureate of Alabama from 2017 to 2021. The author of four collections of poems, Bottle Tree, Little Wanderer, Borrowed Light, and, most recently, Letters to L...Show More
7) The Beat: A Reading and Conversation with Cornelius Eady
Cornelius Eady is a Professor of English and John C. Hodges Chair of Excellence at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. From September 2021 to December 2022, he served as interim Director of Poets ...Show More
8) The Beat: Cassandra de Alba and Amy Lowell
Cassandra de Alba has published several chapbooks including habitats by Horse Less Press in 2016, Ugly/Sad by Glass Poetry Press in 2020, and Cryptids, which was co-authored with Aly Pierce and publis...Show More
9) The Beat: Mathias Svalina and Gerard Manley Hopkins
Mathias Svalina is the author of seven books. His most recent, America at Play (published by Trident Press), is a collection of absurdist instructions for children's games. His poetry collection Thank...Show More
10) The Beat: Jos Charles
Jos Charles is author of the poetry collections a Year & other poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), feeld, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series select...Show More