oin Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson as she reads from and discusses her new release, Perfect Black.

In Perfect Black, Wilkinson combines her deep love for her country roots with her passion for language and storytelling to craft compelling lyrics and prose about Black girlhood, racism, and political awareness. It is a captivating conversation about life, love, loss, and pain, interwoven with striking illustrations by her longtime partner Ron Davis.

Crystal Wilkinson is the author of The Birds of Opulence, winner of the Ernest J. Gaines award; Blackberries, Blackberries, winner of the Chaffin Award for Appalachian Literature, and Water Street, a finalist for both the UK’s Orange Prize for Fiction and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. The winner of a 2020 USA Artist Fellowship, she serves as associate professor of English at the University of Kentucky.

Please register at https://bit.ly/psplPerfectBlack to receive a link to this virtual event. For more information, contact Diane Dehoney at diane@pspl.org.