Union Avenue Books launched its first ever First Friday poetry reading series this summer! And it’s still going! Tonight’s readers are Anna Laura Reeve, Ben Groner, Ethan Palmer, and Merrick Sloane.

Join Appalachian poets Annie Woodford, Lacy Snapp, and Anna Laura Reeve for a Punch Bucket Lit reading, “Earth to Bind Us”: Three Female Voices of Appalachia, at the Renaissance Hotel in Ballroom C1 in Asheville, North Carolina. This by the WAY is the first ever Punch Bucket Literary Festival and everyone who’s anyone will be there getting stoned off massively great lit. Do yourself a favor!!!

Three Belle Point Press poets—Anna Laura Reeve, Maggie Rue Hess, and William Woolfitt—read from their new books at City Lights in Sylva, North Carolina.

Red Branch Review inaugural reading series! At Pretentious in the Old City, come on down!!

This month, Knoxville Public Library has a special All Over the Page meetup. In conjunction with National Poetry Month we will have readings and discussion from two different poets. Valediction by Linda Parsons and Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility by Anna Laura Reeve. 

In celebration of National Poetry Month, Linda Parsons and Anna Laura Reeve will read from their most recent books, and there will be a Q&A session and snacks! The program will be recorded live and released as an episode of The Beat, Knox County Public Library’s poetry podcast. 

This special session will be held in the 3rd floor classroom of the Lawson McGhee Library at 500 W. Church Ave, downtown Knoxville.

Join Anna Laura Reeve and three other as-yet-unnamed poets for March 2024’s installment of Poet Quartet, a monthly poetry reading at Malaprops. Asheville, NC.

Free and open to the public, Pellissippi State Libraries Appalachian Heritage Project invites Anna Laura Reeve to give a poetry master class at the 2024 James Agee Conference, Saturday March 2, at 9:30am. Stay for presentations on fiction, rare book collecting, creative nonfiction, and a musical performance, followed by author book signings at 3:30pm, and an open mic for participants at 4:00pm.

On Monday, February 12, East Tennessee State University’s Three Emerging Writers Series welcomes Anna Laura Reeve, Halle Hill, and Annie Woodford to campus to speak to students and the public about their writing. This event will be held at 4:00pm in the Reece Museum in the Embodying Culture: Women in Appalachia exhibition.

Come to Union Avenue Books in Knoxville, TN, to hear Jenny Sadre-Orafai read from her new book of poems, Dear Outsiders. Anna Laura Reeve will be there too! Follow this link to read more about Sadre-Orafai, Dear Outsiders, and this event.

Join Anna Laura Reeve, Dana Malone, and Lauren Suzanne on October 22nd in the Wolf Room of the Tennessee State Museum for a reading and discussion of their new books. Q&A afterward, with a book signing at 4:00pm on the Mall next to Parnassus Books. Follow this link to the SFOB’s website for more info!

Mildred Barya and Anna Laura Reeve will read at Lee University’s annual Writer’s Series Reading. Join us in the EMC Lecture Hall, room 305 of the Vest Building, at 5:00pm. Follow this link to LU’s website for more info!

Anna Laura Reeve is the featured poet for the Sawmill Poetry Series’ September reading at Plenty on Spring in Cookeville, Tennessee. Find us at 48 W. Broad St. at 7:00pm (and come early to browse this lovely indie bookstore!).

Sundress Publications presents their August readers: Mary Leauna Christensen and Anna Laura Reeve. Pretentious Beer Co. in Knoxville, TN.

Donna Vorreyer’s sweet/hot poetry reading series 100 Pitchers of Honey will host Belle Point Press authors Elisheva Fox, Jason Myers, and Anna Laura Reeve on July 20th at 6:30pm Central / 7:30pm Eastern. Come on down!

Anna Laura Reeve returns to Lipscomb University on April 20 as the featured speaker for the 2023 Landiss Lecture. The lecture begins at 7 p.m. in the Ezell Center’s Paul Rogers Board Room. The event is free and open to the public and there will be an author signing afterward.

Join Belle Point Press on Tuesday, 4/18 at 7pm Central, to celebrate our two spring poetry releases by Jason Myers (Maker of Heaven &) and Anna Laura Reeve (Reaching the Shore of the Sea of Fertility). They'll be joined by Esteban Rodriguez, friend of the press and author of several books published by presses in our region. Follow this link for more information and to register for this virtual event!

Union Ave Books is proud to present a launch event for Anna Laura Reeve's debut collection REACHING THE SHORE OF THE SEA OF FERTILITY. This event will take place on April 16, 2023 at 2 pm. It’s free, but if you know you’re coming, please follow this link to the Eventbrite page and register so we know how much wine to bring! There will also be snacks.