Knox Pods

Knox Pods

Knox County Public Library

Episodes 189
Avg. Duration 33m
Activity Moderate
Apple Rating 5.0 (1)
Since Dec 2007
Latest Episode Mar 2026

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Library programs on a variety of topics―mostly book and author talks―and some Knoxville, Tenn. history.

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The Beat: Matt Broaddus

Mar 05, 2026 9m Transcript

Matt Broaddus is the author of Deeper the Tropics and Temporal Anomalies. His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Annulet, Denver Quarterly, and The Paris Review. He lives in Colorado…

The Beat: Shuly Xóchitl Cawood

Feb 09, 2026 9m Transcript

Shuly Xóchitl Cawood teaches writing workshops, doodles with Sharpies and acrylic paint, and is raising two poodles and a dwindling number of orchids. Her books include Something So Good It Can Never…

The Beat: Arlene Keizer's Poems for Beauford Delaney

Dec 15, 2025 9m Transcript

Arlene Keizer, an Afro-Caribbean American poet and scholar, writes about the literature, lived experience, theory, and visual culture of the African Diaspora. The recipient of an Academy of American…

The Beat: Chris Barton and Peter Gizzi

Sep 09, 2025 9m Transcript

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,…

The Beat: Charles Douthat and Robert Frost

Aug 01, 2025 12m Transcript

Charles Douthat is a poet, retired litigator, and visual artist. Born and educated in California, he practiced law for many years in New Haven and began writing poems during a long mid-life illness.…

The Beat: Matthew Minicucci and Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Jul 03, 2025 19m Transcript

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…

The Beat: Sara Pirkle and Anya Krugovoy Silver

Jun 03, 2025 22m Transcript

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…

The Beat: Denton Loving Joins us Live for All Over the Page!

Apr 23, 2025 37m Transcript

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…

The Beat: Jennifer Horne and Thomas Hardy

Mar 26, 2025 9m Transcript

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…

The Beat: A Reading and Conversation with Cornelius Eady

Feb 27, 2025 49m Transcript

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…

The Beat: Cassandra de Alba and Amy Lowell

Jan 08, 2025 6m Transcript

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…

The Beat: Mathias Svalina and Gerard Manley Hopkins

Nov 14, 2024 10m Transcript

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…

The Beat: Jos Charles

Oct 14, 2024 4m Transcript

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 selected by Fady Joudah…

The Beat: Amish Trivedi

Sep 03, 2024 6m Transcript

Amish Trivedi is the author of three books. His most recent is FuturePanic (Co•Im•Press, 2021). His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and others.…

The Beat: A Reading and Conversation with Anna Laura Reeve

Aug 08, 2024 28m Transcript

Anna Laura Reeve is the author of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility (Belle Point Press, 2023). Winner of the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit…

The Beat: Zachary Schomburg and Gertrude Stein

Jul 03, 2024 7m Transcript

Zachary Schomburg is a poet, painter, and a publisher for Octopus Books, a small independent poetry press. He earned a BA from the College of the Ozarks and a PhD in creative writing from the…

The Beat: A Reading and Conversation with Linda Parsons

Jun 03, 2024 33m Transcript

Poet, playwright, and essayist Linda Parsons is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. Her work has appeared in…

The Beat: Todd Davis

Apr 29, 2024 8m Transcript

Todd Davis is the author of seven books of poetry. His most recent collections are Coffin Honey and Native Species. His book Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Michigan State…

The Beat: Iliana Rocha and Delmira Agustini

Apr 01, 2024 11m Transcript

Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. She is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for her book The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez…

The Beat: Harold Whit Williams

Mar 05, 2024 9m Transcript

Harold Whit Williams is a poet and longtime guitarist for the indie rock band Cotton Mather. He's the recipient of the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the 2014 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize,…

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