Carrie Meadows is author of Speak, My Tongue (Calypso Editions, 2017), a poetry collection celebrating self-taught artists of the American South. Her poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, North American Review, Mid-American Review, The Common, and other publications. She teaches creative and professional writing at UTC. https://www.carriemeadows.com/

Zone 3 Reading Series events are free and open to the public.

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“These poems are luminous, tight, wondrous songs that give voice to artists who were outsiders of all kinds—self-taught, on the margins of society, often perceived as crazy—and limn their prayers, confessions, declarations, stories, and exclamations with force and grace.” —Erika Meitner, author of Copia