Join us in the bookstore immediately following the Sundown Poetry Reading with Willie Lee Kinard III for light refreshments, signed books, and conversations with the poet!
About the Poet:
Willie Lee Kinard III is a poet, designer, educator & musician forged in Newberry, South Carolina. The author of Orders of Service (forthcoming, Alice James Books, November 2023), winner of the 2022 Alice James Award, he holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Pittsburgh, a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of South Carolina, & probably an A.M.E. Church hymnal. An avid believer of evening thunderstorms & loose leaf tea, his musings include gospel surrealism, Black romance & superstition. With work appearing or forthcoming in Obsidian, the Academy of American Poets’ Poem-a-Day, Best New Poets, Boston Review, The Rumpus & elsewhere, they are the winner of POETRY Magazine’s 2021 J. Howard & Barbara M.J. Wood Prize, a Fellow of The Watering Hole & a Pushcart Prize nominee. Go see ’bout them at www.williekinard.com .