Zone 3 Celebration

I will be reading in Clarksville on April 28, along with others who are past contributors or editors of Zone 3.  Here is a press release about the literary journal and the event:

They settled on the name “Zone 3” for their new magazine, in reference to the temperate zone that encompasses Clarksville, and the APSU Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts agreed to publish a few issues. It was a risky venture. Thousands of literary journals are founded each year, only to fold because of small readerships and financial constraints.

Twenty-five years later, both Till and Glass have retired from APSU, but the poetry journal they helped found has grown into a leading voice in the nation’s network of literary magazines. “Zone 3”expanded into publishing short stories in the 1990s, and it recently added provocative flash interviews with some of America’s finest prose writers, such as Michael Martone, Brenda Miller and Ander Monson.

On April 28, former editors and contributors will join the current editorial staff of “Zone 3” at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library for “Terra Firma,” a reading and broadside exhibition commemorating the journal’s 25th Anniversary.

The event, sponsored by the Tennessee Arts Commission, the CMC Library and the Center of Excellence, begins with a reception at 5:30 p.m. At 6 p.m., Till and Glass will read from their work, as will current “Zone 3” editors Blas Falconer, associate professor of English at APSU, Barry Kitterman, professor of English at APSU, and Amy Wright, assistant professor of English at APSU. Past magazine contributors Phyllis Gobbell and Jeff Hardin will also read during the event.

Hardin has published poems in recent and forthcoming issues of The Gettysburg Review, The Southern Review, The Hudson Review, Ploughshares, Nimrod, Passages Meridian and Measure. He is the author of two chapbooks, “Deep in the Shallows” and “The Slow Hill Out.” His first collection, “Fall Sanctuary,” received the 2004 Nicholas Roerich Prize from Story Line Press. Hardin teaches at Columbia State Community College in Columbia.

A book signing will follow at 7 p.m.

In addition to the readings, the event will feature broadsides of Zone 3 poems, created by APSU art students using the University’s Goldsmith Press and Rare Type Collection. These broadsides will be on display during the event.

For more information about the 25th Anniversary Celebration, contact Susan Wallace with the Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts at 931-221-7031 or wallacess@apsu.edu.