Annual Fundraiser

The Porch is ten years old! Join us Friday, April 5, as we celebrate a decade of literary community at our annual fundraiser, featuring a thought-provoking conversation between award-winning author and poet Ross Gay and long-time friend of The Porch, poet Tiana Clark. Beloved Americana artist Langhorne Slim will round out the bill, making this a true Music City literary evening.

TICKETS ON SALE NOW!

Doors 6 p.m.
Program 7 p.m.
Ticket tiers are as follows:

Porch Friend: $500
Includes small bites and libations
VIP Lounge with Featured Guests
Recognition at event
Priority seating
Name acknowledgement on Porch website
Signed book by Ross Gay
Signed limited-edition print by Weight of Bees

Patron: $250
Includes small bites and libations
VIP Lounge with Featured Guests
Recognition at event
Priority seating
Name acknowledgement on Porch website

General Admission: $120
Includes small bites and libations

About the featured artists:
Ross Gay
is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding, winner of the PEN American Literary Jean Stein Award; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. In addition to his poetry, Ross has released three collections of essays—The Book of Delights was released in 2019 and was a New York Times bestseller; Inciting Joy was released in 2022, and his newest collection, The Book of (More) Delights was released in September of 2023.

Tiana Clark is the author of the poetry collection, I Can’t Talk About the Trees Without the Blood (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2018), winner of the 2017 Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize, and Equilibrium (Bull City Pr
ess, 2016), selected by Afaa Michael Weaver for the 2016 Frost Place Chapbook Competition. Clark is a winner for the 2020 Kate Tufts Discovery Award (Claremont Graduate University), a 2019 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellow, and the 2015 Rattle Poetry Prize. Her writing has appeared in or is forthcoming from The New Yorker, Poetry Magazine, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Virginia Quarterly Review, Tin House Online, Kenyon Review, BuzzFeed News, American Poetry Review, Oxford American, The Best American Poetry 2022, and elsewhere.

Born Sean Scolnick in 1980, Langhorne Slim took part of his artistic moniker from his hometown of Langhorne, Pennsylvania, a place he’s still very much connected to despite making his home in Nashville. He released his first record, Electric Love Letter, back in 2004. Since then he has graced the stages of Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, Newport Folk Festival, and the Conan O’Brien show, winning fans over with his heart-on-a-sleeve sincerity and rousing live shows.His latest release, Strawberry Mansion, the singer-songwriter’s seventh full-length album. The title Strawberry Mansion refers to the neighborhood in Philadelphia where both of his grandfathers grew up, a place he calls “dirty but sweet, tough but full of love, where giants roamed the earth and had names like Whistle and Curly.

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Enjoy a recap of our 2023 fundraiser:
SANCTUARY: An Evening with U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón






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