The Free Nashville Poetry Library

This Saturday, from 4-8, welcome in the summer with artists who grapple with history, tradition, and observation through zines and comics (!) Featured artists include photorealists, philosophers, documentarians, technicians, and naturalists, creating already-classic works at the cutting edge.




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Outdoors, food + drink from local sponsors free w/ encouraged donations, 62°

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Outdoor Sunday afternoon poetry reading w/ visiting poet Anna Lena Phillips Bell + the FNPL librarians (!)

Readings will be followed by an installment of SEND WORD, a correspondence station. Postcard-writing prompts will be shared, and all supplies will be provided, including postcards and stamps. Send someone you love (or your senator, or yourself) a letter today (!)

Anna Lena will be reading from her newest book MIGHT COULD, winner of the Anthony Hecht Prize, out from Waywiser Books. The weather looks not awful, so stop by with a blanket, set your charcuteries in the grass, and hear some poems(!)

Free w/ donations encouraged + BYOB

National Poetry Month rolls on with *A Poet's Stitches* Thursday, April 23rd from 6-8pm (!) A textile-based poetry workshop where attendees can convert strings of text into strings of thread. Knit, sew, knot, braid, bead representations of your favorite poems, or learn new ones. This two-hour drop-in workshop will test the limitations of the written word and how abstract words can become when represented in a new medium.

Bring a poem you enjoy and come ready to stitch it w/ guest artist Nia Smith (!)

Materials provided, but bring your own if you have them. FREE w/ donations accepted.

Et Al. Poetry Reading: Friday, 4/17, 7pm at Coop Gallery (!)

Celebrate the newest from visiting poet Andrew Zawacki - These Late Eclipses (Verge) - and hear Nashville poets Jazz Lucas and Patrick Paridee Samuel.

Free w/ donations accepted - bring $ to purchase a book and support the poets. BYOB.

.more.beans interviewed Melissa Range about her poetry collection, Printer’s Fist. Link in Bio!

Catch Melissa Range’s Writer’s Gym next Monday, April 13 at 7 pm

NECESS OF MESS! 🖍️
:: a grounded radical poetics workshop with language poet plum.e champlin.

In this capsule workshop, we’ll explore words of Audre Lorde, Wanda Coleman, and Lewis Carroll to set our creative tone, utilize the medium of crayons to enter a zone of generative mastery, and poke around in the shape of the sonnet, to once and for all figure out: “what’s in a process?!”

*FREE w/ all donations going to session leader

This Saturday at The Packing Plant, Nashville’s finest zine and comic artists will present their work in The Graphodrome, an arena of media built and overseen by Free Nashville Poetry Library, and only one will walk away the victor. Read their work, cast your vote, and decide their fate.

Ft. + + + + Max Renn

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Back with a new review on the site of OBO, a zine collecting Nashville Facebook Marketplace postings. Review by @11.11.11.1_1 😵‍💫👾

Link in Story ☝️

This Saturday 2/7 at the Wedgewood-Houston Art Crawl, we’re leading the revolution in Genuine Artistic Integrity (G*I) to connect the world and design the future. From 4:00–8:00 PM, see what your friends are writing, drawing, and reading upstairs in The Packing Plant’s one and only poetry library. No terms. No conditions. All human.

Featured artists TBA

Food by local saints

Could not have asked for a better end to my residency here at FNPL. ✨ Thank you to .more.beans for hosting (and for being an inspired fellow curator of the library), to our brilliant featured poets .wummie .ozden_ & , to for stepping up to read stage directions, Matt for so readily providing the space and web of poetic connection, and all of you who came out to take in an hour of poetry surrounded by striking artwork from ❤️ And don’t you worry, I’m not going anywhere just yet! You can still catch me Fridays 12-4 PM at FNPL until late May.

Hope to see ya there!

Cheers,

Rose