Poets Linda Parsons and Susan O’Dell Underwood will present a tapestry of poems from their new collections, Valediction and Splinter, respectively. Weaving related poems two by two, then reading individually, this interplay will show how each poet creates artistry from common experiences, yet with different voices and threads. Join us in National Poetry Month as these two master poets share their powerful new work.

Poet, playwright, essayist, and editor, Linda Parsons is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. She is published in such journals as The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Terrain, The Chattahoochee Review, Baltimore Review, Shenandoah, and American Life in Poetry. Her sixth collection, Valediction, contains poems and prose. Five of her plays have been produced by Flying Anvil Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee.

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