Linda Parsons writes of home and the nurturing earth it’s built on. Through poems of childhood and gardening, she sings and grieves for the lost and the found in her life. From her grandmother’s indwelling kitchen and raggedy garden plot to now being a grandmother and a longtime gardener herself, she cultivates the lessons and language of the past in her own backyard. Parsons’ poems are leavened with a hunger to understand the upheavals of childhood and its growing pains, to be fed on life’s vegetable immensity, to face the passing seasons with grace and the hope of flowering.

Linda Parsons is the Poet Laureate of Knoxville, as well as a playwright and editor. She is the poetry editor for Madville Publishing and the copy editor for Chapter 16, the literary website of Humanities Tennessee.

Attendance is free, but registration is required. Please email matthew@knoxgarden.org to RSVP.