Michael Aday, Letters from the Smokies

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Great Smoky Mountain National Park librarian-archivist Michael Aday will visit City Lights Bookstore on Saturday, March 23rd at 3 p.m.  He will present his book, a collection of correspondences, Letters From the Smokies.  

Within the archives of Great Smoky Mountain National Park, a wealth of knowledge is tucked away in more than a million time-worn documents. This book makes some of the most salient of its letters readily accessible. Voices spanning three centuries, not often heard, are collected and contextualized to offer a unique perspective on the development of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park.  

To reserve copies of Letters From the Smokies,  please call City Lights Bookstore in Sylva, NC, at 828-586-9499. 

 

Letters From the Smokies By Michael Aday, Denise Aday Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780937207253
Availability: We can probably get this title but the price is subject to change.
Published: Great Smoky Mountain Association - September 1st, 2023

Reading with John Hoppenthaler

Join us at City Lights Bookstore on Saturday, April 6th at 3:00pm for a reading with poet John Hoppenthaler. He'll be reading from his newest book, Night Wing over Metropolitan Area, a collection of poems that balance past and present beauty and pain. It has been named a Top 50 poetry selection by Publisher's Weekly

Hoppenthaler’s fourth collection gives voice to a hard-earned weariness that acknowledges but resists resignation. As Grammy Award-winning songwriter Rosanne Cash puts it, “Hoppenthaler’s attention to the specifics of nature—hummingbirds, Japanese maples, snowfall—are like embroidery, stitched through and holding together the sharp memories and images of loss, longing, regret, and hope.” These subtle yet powerful poems assay aging, spirituality, contemporary political concerns, death, the struggles of a mentally ill child, and related marital pressures. In the end, the poems conclude with a sense of resiliency and purpose reinscribed.

John Hoppenthaler is the author of four books of poetry, Night Wing over Metropolitan Area, Domestic Garden, Anticipate the Coming Reservoir and Lives of Water, all with Carnegie Mellon University Press. With Kazim Ali, he has co-edited Jean Valentine: This World Company (Michigan UP). He is a professor of Creative Writing and Literature at East Carolina University. He also serves on the Advisory Board for Backbone Press, specializing in the publication and promotion of marginalized voices. For nine years he served as Personal Assistant to Toni Morrison. His poetry has appeared in Ploughshares, Virginia Quarterly Review, McSweeney's, Southern Review, Poetry Northwest, Christian Science Monitor, Barrow Street, The Laurel Review, Copper Nickel, Blackbird, Subtropics, The Literary Review, Southeast Review, and many other journals, anthologies, and textbooks. 

Night Wing over Metropolitan Area (Carnegie Mellon University Press Poetry Series ) By John Hoppenthaler Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9780887486920
Availability: On Our Shelves Now
Published: Carnegie Mellon University Press - October 25th, 2023

City Lights Bookstore T-Shirt

$25.00
SKU: CLBSTS

Support the bookstore, buy our t-shirts!  The initial print-run is limited to white and burnt orange on a soft, black cotton shirt. 

We're tickled to have connected with Macon County artist, Matt Gauck who created the "reading by lightning bug" drawing to highlight the southern Appalachian setting of this City Lights Bookstore.

Price: $25.00

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