Former Kentucky Poet Laureate and award-winning author Crystal Wilkinson will read from her bestselling culinary memoir Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts: Stories and Recipes from Five Generations of Black Country Cooks as part of the Richard H. Thornton Reading Series. A book signing will follow. Wilkinson is the author of multiple novels and poetry collections, including NAACP Image Award-winning Perfect Black, and currently teaches creative writing at the University of Kentucky.
Free and open to the public