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Murphy Visiting Writer Caroline Randall Williams will read and discuss her work on Wednesday, February 19 at 7:30 p.m. in Reves Recital Hall at Hendrix College. This event is free and open to the public. No tickets or reservations are required.
Caroline Randall Williams is a multi-genre writer, educator, performance artist in Nashville Tennessee, where she is a Writer-in-Residence at Vanderbilt University. Host of the Viola Davis produced Discovery + series Hungry For Answers, she is also co-author of the NAACP Image Award-winning cookbook Soul Food Love. Her debut poetry collection, Lucy Negro, Redux was published by Third Man Books, and turned into a ballet by Nashville Ballet, with an original score by Grammy award winner Rhiannon Giddens.This production was filmed for PBS’s Great Performances 50th anniversary series, in which Williams performs her poetry as a member of the cast. Named by Southern Living as “One of the 50 People changing the South,” and ranked by The Root as one of the 100 most influential African Americans of 2020, the Cave Canem fellow has been published and featured in multiple journals, essay collections and news outlets, including The Atlantic, Garden and Gun, Essence, and the New York Times.
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1600 Washington Ave , Conway, AR, United States, Arkansas 72032
