Crystal Wilkinson, Kentucky's Poet Laureate from 2021 to 2023, is the award-winning author of Perfect Black, 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. Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks is a lyrical culinary journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians, through powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes.
Moderator: Latina Sheard
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Society & Culture | Literature & Language | Food & Drink |
TAGS: | SixBridgesBookFestival | 6B24-Workshop | 6B24-Cooking | 6B24-7 |
The tenth library in the Central Arkansas Library System was dedicated in Sue Cowan Williams’s honor on March 22, 1997. Fittingly, the Sue Cowan Williams Library serves the community near the historic Dunbar High School building in downtown Little Rock, where Williams taught. Today at the Williams Library, patrons can see the same commitment to education and equal opportunity that inspired Sue Cowan Williams to take a stand. Williams offers a wide range of programs for children and teens.