Jesse Graves and Erica Wright will discuss Charles Wright’s Black Zodiac in a Facebook Live event on Thursday, April 25th, 2024 at 6:30 CDT. The event will be hosted by Chapter 16 and Humanities Tennessee as part of their year-long celebration for Humanities Tennessee’s 50th anniversary. The event is free, and no registration is required.
For more information on the event, or to attend, please see Chapter 16’s Facebook event page.
From Humanities Tennessee’s event page:
Join us for an online discussion of Charles Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning poetry collection “Black Zodiac,” featuring Erica Wright and Jesse Graves. This conversation is part of a yearlong series celebrating the 50th anniversary of Humanities Tennessee.
Erica Wright is the author of four crime novels and two poetry collections. Her essay collection Snake was released in 2020. Hollow Bones is forthcoming from Severn House in August 2024. Wright grew up in Wartrace, Tennessee, and now lives in Knoxville.
Jesse Graves grew up in Sharps Chapel, Tennessee, where his ancestors settled in the 1780s. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Poetry Writing from Cornell University, and PhD in English from The University of Tennessee, and he teaches as Professor of English and Poet-in-Residence at East Tennessee State University.
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