Knoxville has an amazing creative community and no where is this more in evidence than at the monthly meetings of the Knoxville Writer’s Guild. Writers from both the city and the surrounding area read from their works and discuss the creative process at the Laurel Theater on the first Thursday of each month.
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| Judy DiGregorio, Laurel Theater, January 2010 |
This month featured two writers known for their humor, Judy DiGregorio and Art Stewart. Judy has written humor columns, has been featured in the Chicken Soup series and has compiled her writing in two books, Life Among the Lilliputians
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| Art Stewart at the Laurel Theater, January 2010 |
Art is a poet and a scientist and, as strange as that combination may sound, it gets even more difficult to imagine when you learn that he often writes humorous poetry and essays about science. It’s helpful for people like myself who remembers very few chuckles in the years of science instruction I endured. He has three books to his credit, Rough Ascension and Other Poems of Science (2003), Bushido: The Virtues of Rei and Makoto (2005), and his recently-released Circle, Turtle, Ashes, available at the Celtic Cat link above.
It’s a great way to spend an hour or so each month and learn more about local and regional writers. Why don’t you join us in February? The featured speaker will be Pamela Schoenwaldt whose new novel When We were Strangers
