The Sundress Academy for the Arts is pleased to announce the guests for the October installment of our reading series, poets stevie redwood and Thomas Kneeland. Join us on Thursday, October 17th at Pretentious Beer Co. from 7:00-9:00 PM for a reading followed by an open mic! Sign-up for the open mic begins at 7 PM sharp and is limited to 10-12 readers.
stevie redwood is a disabled toisanese jewish neuroinsurgent introvert homotrash littledreamer bigmouth bitch living & dying in frisco. they’re unimpressed by scene queers, artifice, & pacifism. they’re fond of shittalk, porchsitting, leaflitter, & riffraff. they dream a different end of the world.
Thomas Kneeland is the author of We Be Walkin’ Blackly in the Deep and is a 2022 Frontier Poetry Global Poetry Prize finalist. He is a 2024 Speculative Play & Just Futurities Scholar-in-Residence, which is funded by Indiana University, the Mellon Foundation, IU Indianapolis (IUI) Arts & Humanities Institute, IUI Center for Africana Studies & Culture, and the Ray Bradbury Center. His publication credits include Modern Language Studies, Southern Humanities Review, The Amistad, The Rumpus, South Florida Poetry Journal, and elsewhere. Kneeland holds a BA in English Writing from DePauw University, an MA in Ministry from Wesley Seminary, and an MFA in Poetry from Butler University.
Each month we split donations with a Knoxville-area community partner who shares our values. October’s community partner is the Neighbor to Neighbor Disaster Relief Fund. The fund, facilitated by the East Tennessee Foundation, provides strategic grants to support nonprofits and agencies exclusively aiding East Tennessee and the region’s recovery amid the devastating impacts of Hurricane Helene. Intending to support immediate needs and long-term recovery, donations to the Neighbor to Neighbor Disaster Relief Fund assist in places where costs are the greatest and private funding is the least available.
This event is brought to you in part by a grant provided by the Tennessee Arts Commission.
