Arts & Culture

Denbo Center's Public Books Circle

Join UT’s Denbo Center for Humanities & the Arts for its 2026-2027 Public Books Circle! First meeting: October 18 at 2:30, discussing Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston Circle meetings are held in person at the Denbo Center at Cherokee Mills, on Sutherland Avenue in Knoxville. The program is free to all adult readers. This year’s Circle is led by the DCHA Public Books Scholar, Professor Natalie Graham (Head, Africana Studies at UT) and follows the DCHA theme, “Authenticity: Identity and Place.” To explore the theme, Prof. Graham has curated a reading list she calls, “A Closer…