Berea College will be the scene of a giant gathering of Appalachian writers talking publicly with one another, reading out loud, and hanging out. bell hooks, Denise Giardina, Frank X Walker, Darnell Arnoult, and a gang of others will be there. The Berea Appalachian Symposium promises to be a landmark in the discussion of Appalachian Lit. I'm doing a thing with Amy Greene, Charles Dodd White, and Glenn Taylor about writing in the 21st century on Thursday September 10 at 9:45 with a book signing to follow. Thank Silas House for putting this together. Come see it. The whole dang thing is free as a bird. Full schedule here.

Thanks to the good folks at Union Avenue Books in Knoxville, Tennessee, I will be reading with two of my favorite poets, Denton Loving and Jesse Graves, on Sunday September 13th at 3pm. It will be good to be in East Tennessee with two such erstwhile East Tennesseeans. Come join us.