Holler Salon: Eat, Bray, Love

Sundress Academy for the Arts Presents
Eat, Bray, Love

The Sundress Academy for the Arts (SAFTA) is pleased to announce Eat, Bray, Love, part of the Holler Salon series at Firefly Farms. The event will take place 6-10 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 10, and will feature readings by Amorak Huey, Stephanie McCarley Dugger, and T.A. Noonan. Dinner will be provided, but be sure to BYOB. Firefly Farms is located at 195 Tobby Hollow Ln. Knoxville, TN 37830. All are welcome!

Amorak Huey, a 2017 National Endowment for the Arts Fellow, is author of the poetry collections Ha Ha Ha Thump (Sundress, 2015) and Boom Box (Sundress, forthcoming in 2019) as well as the chapbooks The Insomniac Circus (Hyacinth Girl, 2014) and A Map of the Farm Three Miles from the End of Happy Hollow Road (Porkbelly, 2016). He is also co-author with W. Todd Kaneko of the textbook Poetry: A Writer’s Guide and Anthology (Bloomsbury, 2018) and teaches writing at Grand Valley State University in Michigan.

Stephanie McCarley Dugger is the author of Either Way, You’re Done (Sundress dugger Publications, 2017). Her chapbook Sterling (Paper Nautilus, 2015) was co-winner of the 2014 Vella Chapbook contest. Her poems and nonfiction have appeared or are forthcoming in Arts & Letters, The Boiler Journal, Cider Press Review, Gulf Stream, Heron Tree, Meridian, The Southeast Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, Taos Journal of International Poetry and Art, and other journals. She is an assistant professor at Austin Peay State University, where she teaches writing and literature, and is Assistant Poetry Editor for Zone 3 Press.

T.A. Noonan is a queer writer, artist, geek, and witch whose full-length books include The Bone Folders, Petticoat Government, four sparks fall: a novella, and a forthcoming collection of radical translations, The Ep[is]odes: a reformulation of Horace. They are also the author of the chapbooks Balm, Darjeeling, Dress the Stars, The Midway Iterations, and Fall. Individual works have appeared in Whiskey Island, LIT, Reunion: The Dallas Review, Ninth Letter, Phoebe, Open Letters Monthly, and more. Currently nesting in Florida, they serve as an Associate Editor of Sundress Publications, the Development Director of the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Founding Editor of Flaming Giblet Press. Noonan walks like Godzilla on a mission, and their current obsessions include brush pens, magical alphabets, cleromancy, and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

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