The Big Ears Festival is back in a big way March 24-27 after being on hold for two years due to Covid-19. The bad news is, if you don’t already …
Giovanni honored by hometown, ‘Knoxville, Tennessee’
Mayor Madeline Rogero called it “the annotated version” when poet Nikki Giovanni interrupted her own reading of “Knoxville, Tennessee” to insert comments and even lead the crowd in singing “Leaning …
Poet Nikki Giovanni to get city honor
Knoxville native Nikki Giovanni will be honored at 10 a.m. Thursday, May 23, when Mayor Madeline Rogero and other city officials unveil a historic marker near the entrance to the …
Historian, writer Jack Neely enriches our historically rich town
As writer and historian Jack Neely talked to an audience of writers and outright fans at the Knoxville Writers Guild gathering at Central United Methodist Church last Thursday evening, it …