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SUMMARY:2025 Edward F. Prichard Lecture with Crystal Wilkinson
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the 2025 Edward F. Prichard Lecture\, 
 featuring award-winning and critically acclaimed novelist\, short story 
 writer\, essayist\, and poet Crystal Wilkinson. \n\nWilkinson will read 
 from her most recent book\, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts\, and 
 participate in a moderated conversation. Praisesong is a lyrical culinary 
 journey that explores the hidden legacy of Black Appalachians through 
 powerful storytelling alongside nearly forty comforting recipes.\n\nThe 
 Poet Laureate of Kentucky from 2021-23\, Wilkinson is recipient of an NAACP 
 Image Award for Outstanding Poetry\, an O. Henry Prize\, an Academy of 
 American Poets Fellowship\, a USA Artists Fellowship\, and an Ernest J. 
 Gaines Prize for Literary Excellence. \n\nWilkinson currently teaches at 
 the University of Kentucky\, where she is the Bush-Holbrook Endowed 
 Professor and Director of the Division of Creative Writing.\n\nThe Prichard 
 Lecture is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow the 
 lecture. Seating is limited\, and RSVPs are appreciated.\n\n\nSince its 
 inception in 1977\, the Edward F. Prichard Lecture Series has featured 
 nationally acclaimed authors\, journalists\, historians\, and public 
 figures. The Prichard Lecture is made possible by an endowment created by 
 Edward F. Prichard\, Jr.\, a New Deal activist who later championed 
 educational change in Kentucky.\n\n
LOCATION:Young Library Auditorium
ORGANIZER;CN="Angie Gergely":MAILTO:angie.gergely@uky.edu
CATEGORIES:Featured, Speaker
CONTACT;CN="Angie Gergely":MAILTO:angie.gergely@uky.edu
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