Friday, October 27, 6:30-8 pm

This month, poets Wesley Sims, Diane Williams and Patricia Hope will read their own original work.

Meet Our Guests

Wesley Sims

Wesley has published three chapbooks of poetry: When Night Comes, Finishing Line Press, Georgetown, Kentucky, 2013; Taste of Change, Iris Press, Oak Ridge, TN, 2019; and A Pocketful of Little Poems, Amazon, 2020.

He has had poems nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize.

 

Diane Williams

Diane’s poetry has appeared in online publications One Trick Pony, Bluestem Magazine, Black Moon Magazine, and Monterey Poetry Review. She published a short collection, Night in the Garden, in 2020.

She was program chair for the Knoxville Writers Group in 2019 and 2020, and was appointed to the board of Tennessee Mountain Writers in 2023.

 

Patricia Hope

Patricia’s award-winning writing has appeared in many newspapers, magazines, and anthologies including Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Guideposts’ Blessings in Disguise, Chicken Soup for the Soul, and Southern Writers. 

She has edited two poetry anthologies and published two novels, including
Lonely Way Back Home (2017).