Participation Type
Performance
Session Title
Session 7.15 Literature
Session Abstract or Summary
Jesse Graves, Don Johnson, and Jeff Daniel Marion will read from their original works, including from recently published collections of poetry.
Presentation #1 Title
A Poetry Reading by Jesse Graves, Don Johnson, and Jeff Daniel Marion
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
Jesse Graves, Presenter and Panel Chair Jesse Graves's first poetry collection, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, was published by Texas Review Press in 2011, and won the 2012 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, and the Book of the Year Award in Poetry from the Appalachian Writers’ Association. Graves will be the 2015 recipient of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He was also awarded the 2013 Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award from Morehead State University. Texas Review Press released his second book of poems, titled Basin Ghosts, in spring of 2014. Other work appears in recent or forthcoming issues of Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, and Missouri Review Online. He completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Tennessee, and a M. F. A. degree in Poetry from Cornell University, and taught for one year as a lecturer at the University of New Orleans. He work now as an Associate Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where he was given the 2012 New Faculty Award from the College of Arts & Sciences.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Jesse Graves is the author of two poetry collections, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine and Basin Ghosts, and the author and editor of several articles and books on Appalachian literature. He is Associate Professor of English at ETSU.
Presentation #2 Title
Don Johnson, Presenter
Presentation #2 Abstract or Summary
Don Johnson, born in Poca, West Virginia, is a professor and poet in residence at East Tennessee State University where he has been on the faculty for more than thirty years. He has published four volumes of poetry: The Importance of Visible Scars (Wampeter Press), Watauga Drawdown (Overmountain Press ), Here and Gone (Louisiana Literature Press), and, most recently, More Than Heavy Rain (Texas Review Press). He has also published work on Appalachian poets -- Fred Chappell, Danny Marion, Robert Morgan, and Jim Wayne Miller --, and on the literature of sport. He edited Aethlon: the Journal of Sport Literature for fifteen years before becoming the poetry editor of that journal for five. His other published work has been on Seamus Heaney, and 18th C. British Literature.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #2
Don Johnson, born in Poca, West Virginia, is Professor and Poet in Residence at East Tennessee State University where he has been on the faculty for more than thirty years. He has published four volumes of poetry: The Importance of Visible Scars, Watauga Drawdown, Here and Gone, and, most recently, More Than Heavy Rain.
Presentation #3 Title
Jeff Daniel Marion, Presenter
Presentation #3 Abstract or Summary
Jeff Daniel Marion has published nine poetry collections, four poetry chapbooks, and a children’s book. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Atlanta Review, Tar River Poetry, and many other journals. In 1978, Marion received the first Literary Fellowship awarded by the Tennessee Arts Commission. Ebbing & Flowing Springs: New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976-2001 won the 2003 Independent Publisher Award in Poetry and was named Appalachian Book of the Year by the Appalachian Writers Association. His collection Father received the 2009 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and in 2011 he was awarded the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Marion served as the Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence for the University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, from 2009-2011. In spring 2013, his work and career were celebrated at Carson-Newman University and Walters State Community College.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #3
Jeff Daniel Marion has published nine poetry collections, four poetry chapbooks, and a children’s book. His poems have appeared in The Southern Review, Southern Poetry Review, Shenandoah, Atlanta Review, Tar River Poetry, and many other journals. In 1978, Marion received the first Literary Fellowship awarded by the Tennessee Arts Commission. Ebbing & Flowing Springs: New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976-2001 won the 2003 Independent Publisher Award in Poetry and was named Appalachian Book of the Year by the Appalachian Writers Association. His collection Father received the 2009 Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize, and in 2011 he was awarded the James Still Award for Writing about the Appalachian South by the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Marion served as the Jack E. Reese Writer-in-Residence for the University of Tennessee Libraries, Knoxville, from 2009-2011. In spring 2013, his work and career were celebrated at Carson-Newman University and Walters State Community College.
A Poetry Reading by Jesse Graves, Don Johnson, and Jeff Daniel Marion
Jesse Graves, Presenter and Panel Chair Jesse Graves's first poetry collection, Tennessee Landscape with Blighted Pine, was published by Texas Review Press in 2011, and won the 2012 Weatherford Award in Poetry from Berea College, and the Book of the Year Award in Poetry from the Appalachian Writers’ Association. Graves will be the 2015 recipient of the James Still Award from the Fellowship of Southern Writers. He was also awarded the 2013 Thomas and Lillie D. Chaffin Award from Morehead State University. Texas Review Press released his second book of poems, titled Basin Ghosts, in spring of 2014. Other work appears in recent or forthcoming issues of Prairie Schooner, Georgia Review, and Missouri Review Online. He completed a Ph.D. in English at the University of Tennessee, and a M. F. A. degree in Poetry from Cornell University, and taught for one year as a lecturer at the University of New Orleans. He work now as an Associate Professor of English at East Tennessee State University, where he was given the 2012 New Faculty Award from the College of Arts & Sciences.
