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Mathias Svalina is the author of seven books. His most recent, America at Play (published by Trident Press), is a collection of absurdist instructions for children's games. His poetry collection Thank You Terror was published earlier this year, and his first short story collection, Comedy, is forthcoming soon. Svalina was a founding editor of Octopus Books. He’s led writing workshops in universities, libraries, community spaces, and in prison. Since 2014, he has run a dream delivery service, traveling around the country to write and deliver dreams to subscribers. Through the Dream Delivery Service, Svalina has worked with the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, the Poetry Foundation, the University of Arizona Poetry Center, and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson.
Gerard Manley Hopkins was born in the London suburb of Stratford Essex in 1844. He studied classics at Balliol College in Oxford and theology at St. Beuno’s College in North Wales. He was ordained in 1877 as a Jesuit priest, and he served in London, Oxford, Liverpool, Glasgow, and Stonyhurst. He also taught classics at Stonyhurst College and Greek literature at University College, Dublin. During his lifetime, most of Hopkins’ poems were read by only a few friends. In 1889, Hopkins died of typhoid fever, and he was buried in Dublin, Ireland. Hopkin’s first collection, Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, was published in 1918.
Links:
Read "Terrible Baby" by Mathias Svalina at The Tiny
Read "That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection" by Gerard Manley Hopkins at Poets.org
Mathias Svalina
Mathias Svalina's website
Bio and poem at Poets.org
"Mathias Svalina-Dream Delivery Service" video by JustBuffalolLit
Mathias Svalina reads from "Thank You Terror" at the Silo City Reading Series
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Bio and poems at Poets.org
International Hopkins Society's website (poems, bio, study guides, video, etc).
Photo Credit: Dean Davis
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Jos Charles is author of the poetry collections a Year & other poems (Milkweed Editions, 2022), feeld, a Pulitzer-finalist and winner of the 2017 National Poetry Series selected by Fady Joudah (Milkweed Editions, 2018), and Safe Space (Ahsahta Press, 2016). She teaches as a part of Randolph College's low-residency MFA program and resides in Long Beach, CA.
Links:
Jos Charles' website
Bio and Poems at Poets.org
a Year & other poems and feeld at Milkweed Editions
Two poems at The Adroit Journal
Five poems at Frontier Poetry
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Amish Trivedi is the author of three books. His most recent is FuturePanic (Co•Im•Press, 2021). His poems have appeared in The American Poetry Review, Denver Quarterly, Tupelo Quarterly, and others. Trivedi earned an MFA from Brown University and a PhD in English and Critical Theory from Illinois State University. He's an assistant professor in the Department of English at the University of Delaware.
Links:
Read this episode's poems (along with several others):
"Green Boots" at The Brooklyn Rail
"Watch the Corners" at Black Sun Lit
"Number Nine" and "Dying" at The Kenyon Review
Amish Trivedi's website
Amish Trivedi above/ground press AWP offsite reading 2023
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Anna Laura Reeve is the author of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility (Belle Point Press, 2023). Winner of the Adrienne Rich Award for Poetry, her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Beloit Poetry Journal, Salamander, Terrain.org, and others. She lives and gardens near the Tennessee Overhill region, traditional land of the Eastern Cherokee.
Links:
Anna Laura Reeve's website
Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility at Belle Point Press
"Sara Moore Wagner on Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility." a book review at Still
"Look at Everything" and "Children of Asylum Seekers" at The Racket
"Playing the Washboard" and "Sprouting Wand" at Canary
"Desire" in Josephine Quarterly
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Zachary Schomburg is a poet, painter, and a publisher for Octopus Books, a small independent poetry press. He earned a BA from the College of the Ozarks and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Nebraska. He is the author of six books of poems including, most recently, Fjords vol. 2, published by Black Ocean in 2021 and a novel, Mammother, published by Featherproof Books in 2017.
Gertrude Stein was born in Allegheny, Pennsylvania in 1874. She attended Radcliffe College and Johns Hopkins Medical School. In 1903, she moved to Paris where she eventually began writing poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. She became an influential figure in the worlds of art and literature, and her home became a gathering place for artists and writers like Henri Matisse, Ezra Pound, Pablo Picasso, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Max Jacob. She died near Paris in July of 1946.
Links:
Read "The Cliff Floats Low" at Sixth Finch
Read "Tender Buttons [Apple]" at Poets.org
Zachary Schomburg
Zachary Schomburg's website
Bio and bio at Poetryfoundation.org
"Moving a Plane Around a Living Room: In Conversation with Zachary Schomburg" in Timber
Two poems at Jellyfish
Gertrude Stein
Bio and poems at Poetryfoundation.org
"Gertrude Stein - Author & Poet: Mini Bio" from Biography
Bio and poems at Poets.org
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Poet, playwright, and essayist Linda Parsons is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee. Her work has appeared in The Georgia Review, Iowa Review, Prairie Schooner, Southern Poetry Review, Terrain, The Chattahoochee Review, Baltimore Review, Shenandoah, and others. Her sixth collection, Valediction, contains poems and prose. Five of her plays have been produced by Flying Anvil Theatre in Knoxville, Tennessee.
Links:
Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation
"Poet Linda Parsons Launches Her Latest Work, 'Valediction'" in Inside of Knoxville
"Valediction: Poems and Prose" in Southern Literary Review
"Travels with My Father" in Still: The Journal
Two poems at Terrain.org
"Therapy Dog" at Verse Daily
Two poems at Vox Populi
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Todd Davis is the author of seven books of poetry. His most recent collections are Coffin Honey and Native Species. His book Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems is forthcoming from Michigan State University Press in August of 2024. He has won the Midwest Book Award, the Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Bronze and Silver Awards, the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, the Chautauqua Editors Prize, and the Bloomsburg University Book Prize. His poems appear in such journals and magazines as Alaska Quarterly Review, American Poetry Review, Gettysburg Review, Iowa Review, Missouri Review, North American Review, Orion, Southern Humanities Review, and Western Humanities Review. He is an emeritus fellow of the Black Earth Institute and teaches environmental studies at Pennsylvania State University’s Altoona College.
Links:
Read "For a Stray Dog near the Paper Mill in Tyrone, Pennsylvania" in 32 Poems
Read "Burn Barrel" at Broadsided
Ditch Memory: New and Selected Poems, forthcoming in August 2024
"A Nature Poet Grapples with Life at the Edge of the Climate Crisis," an interview in Allegheny Front
Todd Davis' website
Bio and Poems at the Poetry Foundation
Two poems in North American Review
Three poems at Terrain.org
"Salvelinus fontinalis," a video poem
Podcast archive for Notes from the Allegheny Front
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Iliana Rocha earned her PhD in Literature and Creative Writing from Western Michigan University. She is the 2019 winner of the Berkshire Prize for her book The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez (Tupelo Press). Her first book, Karankawa, won the 2014 AWP Donald Hall Prize for Poetry. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the Best New Poets anthology, Poetry, Poem-a-Day, The Nation, Virginia Quarterly Review, Latin American Literature Today, and many others. She has won fellowships from CantoMundo and MacDowell. She serves as Poetry Co-Editor for Waxwing Literary Journal, and she is an Assistant Professor at the University of Tennessee.
Delmira Agustini is considered one of the most important South American poets of the 20th century. She was born to upper-middle-class parents in Montevideo, Uruguay in October of 1886. She began writing poetry at the age of 10, and her first major work, El Libro Blanco, was published in 1907, when she was just 20 years old. She went on to publish several other books that were well-received by writers and critics.
Links:
Read "Still Life," "Houston," and "Landscape with Graceland Crumbling in My Hands"
Read "Explosión" in Spanish and English
Iliana Rocha
Iliana Rocha's website
Bio and poems at the Poetry Foundation's website
"The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez" in New York Times Magazine
"Mexican American Sonnet" at Poets.org
"Three Poems" in Latin American Literature Today
“like the building that reflects his death in every window: A Conversation with Iliana Rocha about The Many Deaths of Inocencio Rodriguez” — curated by Tiffany Troy in Tupelo Quarterly
Delmira Agustini
Bio and "The Vampire" at Poets.org
Six Poems by Delmira Agustini (translated by Valerie Martinez) at Drunken Boat
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Harold Whit Williams is a poet and longtime guitarist for the indie rock band Cotton Mather. He's the recipient of the 2020 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize, the 2014 Mississippi Review Poetry Prize, the Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, as well as multiple Pushcart nominations. Williams is currently cataloging the KUT Radio Collection for the University of Texas Libraries, all the while writing, recording, and performing his solo music under the moniker Daily Worker.
Links:
Read “Early Recordings: Volume 1;” “Caught by the Indian Summer Train;” and “Participation Trophy”
Harold Whit William's website
Daily Worker at Radio Gurl Records
"Holding out for Nothing" music video by Daily Worker
"Premonitions at a Funeral" and "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" at JuxtaProse
Four poems at The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
"Blues Dreams," winner of The Mississippi Review Poetry Prize
Follow Harold Whit Williams on Facebook
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Denton Loving is the author of Crimes Against Birds (Main Street Rag) and Tamp (Mercer University Press). He is also the editor of Seeking Its Own Level: an anthology of writings about water (MotesBooks). He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Writing and Literature from Bennington College. His work has appeared in Iron Horse Literary Review, The Kenyon Review, Tupelo Quarterly, Harvard Divinity Bulletin, The Threepenny Review, and Ecotone. He is a co-founder and editor at EastOver Press and its literary journal Cutleaf.
D.H. Lawrence was born in 1885 in Eastwood, Nottinghamshire in England, and he died in 1930 at Vence in the south of France. Though Lawrence is best known for his novels—he’s the author of Lady Chatterley’s Lover and nearly a dozen others—he also published short stories, plays, essays, criticism, and more than a dozen collections of poetry.
Links:
Read "Copperhead," "Foundation," and "Hurtling"
Read "Humming-Bird"
Denton Loving
Denton Loving's website
"Five Poems by Denton Loving" at Salvation South
"Three Poems by Denton Loving" at Harvard Divinity Bulletin
"Under the Chestnut Tree" at Ecotone
Video: WANA (Writers Association of Northern Appalachia) Live! Reading Series featuring Denton Loving
Review of Tamp at Southern Review of Books
D.H. Lawrence
Bio, Poems, and Prose at The Poetry Foundation
Bio and Poems at Poetry.org
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Hank Lazer has published thirty-four books of poetry; his latest books are P I E C E S, When the Time Comes, and field recordings of mind in morning. In 2014, he retired from the University of Alabama after 37 years as a professor and an administrator. He continues to teach innovative seminars on Zen Buddhism and Radical Approaches to the Arts for the University’s Blount Scholars Program. In 2015, Lazer won The Harper Lee Award, Alabama’s highest literary award for lifetime achievement.
Links
Read "Duncan Farm November Meditation" and section 8 from The New Spirit
Hank Lazer's website
Recordings at PennSound
Interview on Bookmark with Don Noble
Eleven poems at Plume
Five poems at Interim
"'Furnishings in the House of the Voice': An Interview with Hank Lazer
by Lisa Russ Spaar"
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Jenny Sadre-Orafai is a poet and essayist and the author of Dear Outsiders and three other poetry collections. Her poetry has appeared in Puerto del Sol, Cream City Review, Ninth Letter, and The Cortland Review. Her prose has appeared in The Rumpus, Fourteen Hills, and The Los Angeles Review. She co-founded and co-edits Josephine Quarterly and teaches creative writing at Kennesaw State University.
Links:
Read "Occupation Interview," "Tragedy Lesson," and "Souvenirs for Locals"
Jenny Sadre-Orafai's website
Three Poems at $
"I Become More Animal When I'm Grieving: A Conversation with Jenny Sadre-Orafi" at The Rumpus
Video: "Hard Hat Reading: Jenny Sadre-Orafai" at Poets House
Video: "Jenny Sadre-Orafai reads at the SAFTA Reading Series"
"In Their Own Words: Jenny Sadre-Orafai on 'Queen of Cups'" at Poetry Society of America
Josephine Quarterly
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Anna Laure Reeve was born and raised in Knoxville, and she earned a Master of Arts in Literature & Poetry Writing from the University of Tennessee. Her poems have appeared in Terrain.org, Jet Fuel Review, Another Chicago Magazine, and many others. She recently won Beloit Poetry Journal’s Adrienne Rich Award, and she was a finalist for the Heartwood Poetry Prize and the Ron Rash Award in Poetry. Her book Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility was recently published by Belle Point Press. She is an assistant editor of Juke Joint, a literary magazine based in Jackson, Mississippi.
William Shakespeare was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, most likely in April of 1564. When he was 18, he married Anne Hathaway with whom he had three children. Shakespeare made his living as an actor and playwright, and his works include 38 plays in addition to 154 sonnets and various other types of poetry. Shakespeare died on April 23, 1616.
Links:
Read an early version of "Tennessee Red Cobb" at Appalachia Bare
Read "Méniére's Disease" at The Racket
Read "Look at Everything" and "Children of Asylum Seekers" at The Racket
Read "That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet 73)" at Poets.org
Read "When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29)" at Poets.org
Anna Laura Reeve
Anna Laura Reeve's website
"Poets in Conversation: Anna Laura Reeve" at Beloit Poetry Journal
Two Poems from Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility by Anna Laura Reeve at ACM
"Motherhood Unshorn: A Review of Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility" at Literary Mama
William Shakespeare
Bio and poems at Poets.org
"Shakespeare's Life" at Folger Shakespeare Library's site
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
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Pauletta Hansel is the author of nine collections of poetry, including her latest book Heartbreak Tree. Her work has been featured in Oxford American, Rattle, American Life in Poetry, and Poetry Daily, among others. Hansel was Cincinnati’s first Poet Laureate, and she was the 2022 Writer-in-Residence for The Public Library of Cincinnati and Hamilton County.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine in 1892. Along with her many books of poetry, Millay published plays, a libretto called The King’s Henchman, and she wrote short stories for popular fiction magazines under the pseudonym Nancy Boyd. She was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in poetry.
Links:
Read "I Take My Mother with Me Everywhere" and "After"
Read "Postcard from Age 60" at Braided Way
Read "Recuerdo" at The Poetry Foundation
Pauletta Hansel
Pauletta Hansel's website
"The Road" at Poetry Daily
"The City" at Appalachian Review
"May 1, 2020" in The Oxford American
"Palindrome" at Still: The Journal
Video: "Meet our 2022 Writer-In-Residence" Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Bio and poems at The Poetry Foundation
Bio and poems at Poets.org
The Millay Society's Audio Archives
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Gary Metras is a retired high school English teacher and college writing instructor. His poems have appeared in America, The Common, Poetry, and many others. Metras has published eight books, including his latest called Vanishing Points. His book Marble Dust is forthcoming from Cervena Barva Press. Metras was the founder, editor, and letterpress printer of Adastra Press, a venture that for forty years specialized in limited editions of poetry chapbooks. In 2018, Metras was appointed the inaugural Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts.
Simon Perchik's poems have appeared in The Nation, Poetry, The New Yorker, and many others. He was born in 1923 in Paterson, New Jersey. During World War II, he joined the Army Air Corps, flew 35 missions overseas, and reached the rank of first lieutenant. Thanks to the GI Bill, Perchik attended New York University where he earned a bachelor’s degree and a law degree. He practiced law for 25 years before becoming an assistant DA for Suffolk County and its first environmental prosecutor. He was a prolific writer, and he published more than thirty books of poetry. A November 2000 issue of Library Journal called Simon Perchik “the most widely published unknown poet in America.” Perchik died on June 14, 2022, in New York City.
Links:
Read "The Engagement" and "Lint" at The Poetry Foundation
Read "Another Winter"
Read "3" and "482"
Gary Metras
"April 6, 2022" at One Art
"Two Poems by Gary Metras" at Flyfishing and Tying Journal
"Art Maker: Gary Metras, Poet" at Daily Hampshire Gazette
"In Studio: Gary Metras" by Easthampton Media (via YouTube)
Simon Perchik
"Simon Perchik, Poet" in The Easthampton Star
"Five Poems" at the Poetry Foundation
Poems at Poetry Northwest
Poems at Plume
"Two Untitled Poems" at The Inflectionist Review
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Sara Moore Wagner is the winner of the 2021 Cider Press Review Editors Prize for her book Swan Wife and the 2020 Driftwood Press Manuscript Prize for Hillbilly Madonna. She has published two chapbooks, Tumbling After (Red Bird Chapbooks) and Hooked Through (Five Oaks Press). She won the 2022 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award, a 2019 Sustainable Arts Foundation award, and she was a 2021 National Poetry Series Finalist. Her work has appeared in Sixth Finch, Beloit Poetry Journal, Waxwing, The Cincinnati Review, Nimrod, Rhino, and others. Wagner's book Lady Wingshot, based on the life of Annie Oakley, won the Blue Lynx Prize and is forthcoming in 2024.
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) was born in 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and she grew up in Upper Darby near Philadelphia. She attended Bryn Mawr and the University of Pennsylvania. H.D. published numerous books, including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, essays, and translations. The publication of her collected and selected poetry helped to establish her as a major poet of the 20th century. H.D.’s work is revered by countless writers and critics, and she’s often thought of as a poet's poet and one of the key figures of the Imagist movement. She died in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1961.
Links:
Read "Purity Test"
Read "Captivity Narrative"
Read "Legend Says"
Read "Leda"
Sara Moore Wagner
Sara Moore Wagner's website
"Anti-Pastoral" at Sixth Finch
"Passing It On" at Waxwing
"Girl as a Deer Shedding the Velvet" at The Inflectionist Review
"Embracing the Half-Wild Creature: A Conversation with Sara Moore Wagner" at The Rumpus
"Sara Moore Wagner on 'Getting My Body Back'" at Poetry Society of America
H.D.
Bio and poems at The Poetry Foundation
Bio and poems at Poets.org
"H.D.: American Poet" in Britannica
"Radical Freedom: Poets on the Life and Work of H.D." Live from the IceHouse Tonight (YouTube)
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This is the last in our four-part lunch and learn series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the AI Galaxy” with apologies to Douglas Adams.
Self-driving cars. ChatGPT. Cancer detection. Smart speakers. Robots in manufacturing… and even in our homes. AI is seemingly everywhere these days. So what does the average human need to know about the artificial intelligence that is quickly becoming part of our everyday lives?
Knoxville entrepreneur and Lirio Chief Evangelist Patrick Hunt translates complex technical concepts into easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets of helpful information.
In this episode recorded on May 25, Patrick examines the possible scenarios of how AI will evolve beyond what we can currently see in front of us, and some of the key questions that future generations will likely have to grapple with.
A video recording of this event is available on Internet Archive. We thank Knoxville Community Media for these recordings.
Music credit: "Three Stories" by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License
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This is the third in our four-part lunch and learn series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the AI Galaxy” with apologies to Douglas Adams.
Self-driving cars. ChatGPT. Cancer detection. Smart speakers. Robots in manufacturing… and even in our homes. AI is seemingly everywhere these days. So what does the average human need to know about the artificial intelligence that is quickly becoming part of our everyday lives?
Knoxville entrepreneur and Lirio Chief Evangelist Patrick Hunt translates complex technical concepts into easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets of helpful information.
In this episode recorded on May 18, Patrick examines some of the ethical, legal, regulatory, and other issues that arise in AI applications, including concepts like the black box and explainable AI.
A video recording of this event is available on Internet Archive. We thank Knoxville Community Media for these recordings.
Music credit: "Three Stories" by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License
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This is the second in our four-part lunch and learn series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the AI Galaxy” with apologies to Douglas Adams.
Self-driving cars. ChatGPT. Cancer detection. Smart speakers. Robots in manufacturing… and even in our homes. AI is seemingly everywhere these days. So what does the average human need to know about the artificial intelligence that is quickly becoming part of our everyday lives?
Knoxville entrepreneur and Lirio Chief Evangelist Patrick Hunt translates complex technical concepts into easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets of helpful information.
In this episode recorded on May 11, Patrick takes a more detailed look at some of the most common uses of AI that impact East Tennesseans, and a few organizations in the region innovating and deploying AI solutions in the public and private sectors.
A video recording of this event is available on Internet Archive. We thank Knoxville Community Media for these recordings.
Music credit: "Three Stories" by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License
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This is the first in our four-part lunch and learn series “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the AI Galaxy” with apologies to Douglas Adams.
Self-driving cars. ChatGPT. Cancer detection. Smart speakers. Robots in manufacturing… and even in our homes. AI is seemingly everywhere these days. So what does the average human need to know about the artificial intelligence that is quickly becoming part of our everyday lives?
Knoxville entrepreneur and Lirio Chief Evangelist Patrick Hunt translates complex technical concepts into easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets of helpful information.
In this episode recorded on May 4, Patrick reviews a working definition of artificial intelligence, a brief history of the technology and science behind it, and various types of AI and the use cases to which they typically apply.
A video recording of this event is available on Internet Archive. We thank Knoxville Community Media for these recordings.
Music credit: Three Stories by Blue Dot Sessions is licensed under an Attribution-NonCommercial License.
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KnoxCountyLibrary.org
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