Fri, Nov 10
|Charleston Library Society
Willie Lee Kinard III with Cassie Premo Steele
Willie Lee Kinard III is a poet, designer, educator, and musician forged in Newberry, South Carolina. His debute poetry collection, Orders of Service, the winner of the 2022 Alice James Award, is forthcoming from Alice James Books. Please see About the Event for more information.
Time & Location
Nov 10, 2023, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Charleston Library Society, 164 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, USA
Guests
About the event
Willie Lee Kinard holds an MFA in creative writing -- poetry from the University of Pittsburgh. A fellow of the Watering Hole, his musings include gospel surrealism, black romance, and superstition. With written work appearing or forthcoming in Obsidian, Poem-A-Day, Best New Poets, Boston Review, and elsewhere, he is the winner of Poetry Magazine's 2021 J. Howard & Barbara M.J. Wood Prize and a Pushcart Prize nominee. He teaches English at the University of South Carolina. Go see ‘bout them at www.williekinard.com.
Cassie Premo Steele, Ph.D., is a lesbian, ecofeminist, mother, poet, novelist, and essayist whose writing focuses on the themes of trauma, healing, creativity, mindfulness, and the environment. She is an award-winning author of 16 books and audio programs ranging from novels to poetry and nonfiction and scholarship. Her newest book, Swimming in Gilead, is forthcoming from Yellow Arrow Publishing in 2023. We Heal from Memory, her scholarly work published by Palgrave, advanced ideas about the power of poetry to heal individual and collective trauma twenty years before these ideas were introduced into the mainstream. Her novel, The ReSisters, was a #1 bestseller on Amazon in the category of books for young people combating prejudice and racism. Her nonfiction book, Earth Joy Writing, published by Ashland Creek Publishing in Oregon, is available for sale at Congaree National Park, where she leads seasonal forest journaling workshops. Her poetry has won numerous awards, including the Archibald Rutledge Prize named after the first Poet Laureate of South Carolina, where she lives in Columbia with her wife. Her website is Cassie Premo Steele
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Topic: Willie Kinard
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Seminar Topic: To Birth a Trickster: On Folk Anti-Heroes & Writing Survival, a brief dive into the storytelling traditions of the American South & a few figures in popular trickster mythologies, exploring how gestures to orature & folklore influence contemporary poetry, &, more specifically, some of the work in my collection, Orders of Service.
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