Crystal Wilkinson for the ETSU Black American Writers Series

Name: Crystal Wilkinson for the ETSU Black American Writers Series
Start: 2025-03-04T13:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-03-04T20:30:00-05:00
Location: East Tennessee State University

Schedule

Tue Mar 04 2025 at 01:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

East Tennessee State University | Johnson City, TN

We are excited to welcome author and former Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson to ETSU's campus for the spring installment of the Black American Writers Series, sponsored by the Black American Studies Program, the Bert C. Bach Written Word Initiative, and the Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services.
There will be two sessions on Tuesday, March 4th.
1:30-3:00 in the Reece Museum:
"In Conversation" with Jesse Graves and Thomas Alan Holmes, followed by Q&A with Audience.
7:00-8:30 in Bud Frank Theatre:
Reading and Conversation with Crystal Wilkinson, moderated by ETSU professor Fred Sauceman, followed by Q&A with audience.
Books will be sold by Atlas Books, with author signing after both sessions.
For more information about the event and the sponsors, visit https://www.etsu.edu/cas/litlang/writingfestival/black-american-writers-series.php.
About Crystal Wilkinson:
Crystal Wilkinson a recent fellowship recipient of the Academy of American Poets, is the award-winning author of Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts, a culinary memoir, Perfect Black, a collection of poems, and three works of fiction—The Birds of Opulence, Water Street and Blackberries, Blackberries. She is the recipient of an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry, an O. Henry Prize, a USA Artists Fellowship, and an Ernest J. Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. Named Kentucky’s Poet Laureate from 2021 to 2023, she has received recognition from the Yaddo Foundation, Hedgebrook, The Vermont Studio Center for the Arts, The Hermitage Foundation and others. Her short stories, poems and essays have appeared in numerous journals and anthologies including most recently in The Atlantic, The Kenyon Review, STORY, Agni Literary Journal, Emergence, Oxford American and Southern Cultures. She currently teaches at the University of Kentucky where she is Bush-Holbrook Professor in Creative Writing.