Poetry @ the Pub Presents Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.

Name: Poetry @ the Pub Presents Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr.
Start: 2025-09-18T19:00:00-04:00
Location: Mortimer Bibb's Public House

Schedule

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

Mortimer Bibb's Public House | Frankfort, KY

Join us Thursday the 18th for the one and only, Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. We can’t wait to learn more about his upcoming release, Tore All to Pieces (University Press of Kentucky). Such an honor to have Willie with us this month. Join us!

Willie Carver Jr. is an LGBTQ+ youth advocate and KY Teacher of the Year. His Gay Poems for Red States (University Press of Kentucky) is a World Pride, Stonewall, Whippoorwill, ALA, Read Appalachia, and Book Riot award recipient. His novel, Tore All to Pieces, arrives 2026 (University Press of Kentucky). Willie writes from Appalachia and believes everyone's story matters.

Gay Poems for Red States Awards:
a Book Riot Best Book of 2023,
a Top Ten Best Book of Appalachia by Read Appalachia,
a David Joy top ten 2023 Southern Book in Garden and Gun,
an IndieBound and American Booksellers Association’s must-have book of 2023,
a 2023 Top Ten Over-The-Rainbow book by the American Library Association,
a 2024 Community of Literary Magazines and Presses Pride Month poem selection,
a 2024 Whippoorwill Book Award Honor Book,
a 2024 Judy Gaines Young Honor Book nomination,
a 2025 World Pride Honor Book,
a 2024 Stonewall Book Award – Barbara Gittings Literature Honor Book.
a 2025 World Pride Global Read Award Winner