The Appalachian Center for the Arts and the Mountain Grrl Experience is proud to present Crystal Wilkinson Kentucky Poet Laureate book signing and performance July 22 at 7:30 pm

Crystal will be speaking about growing up black and a woman in rural Appalachia. You don’t want to miss this unique opportunity.

Crystal E. Wilkinson is an African-American feminist writer from Kentucky, and proponent of the Affrilachian Poet movement. She is winner of a 2022 NAACP Image Award, 2020 USA Fellow of Creative Writing and a 2021 O. Henry Prize winner. She teaches at the University of Kentucky. Her work has primarily been in involving the stories of Black women and communities in the Appalachian and rural Southern canon. She was appointed Poet Laureate of Kentucky 2021.

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