Humanities Tennessee
Humanities Tennessee is a non-profit organization that fosters community and civility in Tennessee through engaging programs that examine and reflect upon ideas, stories, history, arts and culture.
Upcoming Events

Film Screening: Tree of Life

January 14, 2026 @ 5:30 pm — Jan 14, 2026

A deeply personal portrait of a community trying to heal after a mass-shooting at a Pittsburgh Synagogue. Join us for the third program in our new series Beyond the Divide, presented…

In the News

Humanities Tennessee Announces 2025 Tennessee Book Award Winners 

Humanities Tennessee (HT) today announced the winners of the 2025 Tennessee Book Awards. They are: Vic Sizemore (Maryville) in fiction for God of River Mud; Jared Sullivan (Franklin) in non-fiction…

Latest from Chapter 16
Chapter 16

Crow Logos

Dec 8, 2025

The poems in Derelict Days in That Derelict Town, the fourth collection by Knoxvillian Alan May, embrace gilded weirdness and delicious decrepitude, but their staying power lies in their depiction of human loneliness.

Read More at Chapter 16