Writing papers got you down? Not sure how or where to start your research? Join us for a “Writing Blitz” in Hodges Library on Thursday, March 8, from 5 p.m. to 11 p.m., in Room 213. Work surrounded by others with the same goal in mind: FINISH THOSE PAPERS! From pencils to laptops to citation guides … Continued
On Monday, February 26, poet and editor Jill Bialosky will read as part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Jill Bialosky is the author of four acclaimed collections of poetry, most recently The Players; three critically acclaimed novels, most recently, The Prize; and a New York Times bestselling memoir, History of a Suicide: … Continued
On Saturday, February 17, library users will be required to swipe a UT ID card for admittance to Hodges Library. Entrance/exit will be restricted to the Melrose Avenue (2nd floor) entrance. Hodges Library will be open on the regular schedule, 10 a.m. to midnight.
On Monday, March 19, fiction writer Meagan Cass will read as part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Meagan Cass’s first full-length collection, ActivAmerica, published by University of North Texas Press in 2017, won the Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction. She is also author of the chapbook Range of Motion (Magic … Continued
On Monday, March 5, poet Erin Elizabeth Smith will read as part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Erin Elizabeth Smith is the Creative Director at the Sundress Academy for the Arts and the Managing Editor of Sundress Publications and The Wardrobe. She is the author of two full-length collections, The Naming of … Continued
This year, Knoxville’s Big Read and UT’s Life of the Mind freshman reading program prompted hundreds of Knoxvillians to read and discuss Station Eleven, a novel by Emily St. John Mandel. An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his … Continued
The University of Tennessee Libraries has published a collection of essays by participants in Knoxville’s Big Read of A Lesson Before Dying. In 2016, a community reading program brought Knoxvillians together to read and discuss A Lesson Before Dying, Ernest J. Gaines’s novel about a black man who is sentenced to death for a murder … Continued
On Monday, February 19, novelists Allen Wier and David Madden will read as part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Allen Wier has published four novels, most recently Tejano, and a collection of short stories, Things About to Disappear. Late Night, Early Morning, a volume of new and selected stories, was published by … Continued
On Monday, January 29, poet and University of Tennessee professor Marilyn Kallet will read as part of UT’s Writers in the Library reading series. Marilyn Kallet has published eighteen books, including How Our Bodies Learned, which was released by Black Widow Press in January 2018. She has translated Paul Eluard’s Last Love Poems, Péret’s The … Continued
*** DEADLINE EXTENDED to Friday, February 9 *** The Big Orange STEM Saturday (BOSS) planning committee and the UT Libraries invite university faculty, staff, student leaders, and members of the East Tennessee scientific community to participate in the 7th annual BOSS conference at UT’s John C. Hodges Library. BOSS is a free conference presented annually … Continued