The John C. Hodges Society of the University of Tennessee Libraries and The Friends of the Knox County Public Library invite you to the 2021 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture.

Join us for a virtual conversation between two Appalachian authors. Frank X. Walker's latest poetry collection, Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems, speaks to the dual pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice. Wiley Cash's most recent novel, The Last Ballad, follows a single mother's struggle for her rights in a North Carolina textile mill.

This virtual event is free and open to the public.

We look forward to you joining us.