False face...circa a Halloween from long ago. This was my favorite costume.

T'Nia Miller makes a gorgeous villian. What an actress and Chile! I want all the drip from head to toe. I'm loving #theperipheral

A special thank you to KY Humanities Kentucky Book Fair Joseph-Beth Books and all who attended my convo with Wendell Berry, the book fest poetry reading, or stopped by my table to chat or buy books. This felt like the best and biggest one in a while. Congrats to all. I'm grateful.

This Charles Booker video needs a ton of traction. Can you help?

Kentucky is ready to get rid of Rand Paul.

Receipts:

At Jackson State this morning!

Just had the best grits I've ever had in life at breakfast at Old Capitol Inn in Jackson, Mississippi.

Our 2022 Sea Island Writers Retreat is less than a week away and I’m already so excited I can’t stand it. Have already called 2 of my counselors to settle my black ass DOWN!! 🤣🤣🤣 Faculty: Dolen Crystal WILKINSON Regina Taylor Wanda S. Lloyd, author Dawn M. Turner Nic Stone and me!

On Thursday, Oct. 27, join us for a poetry reading with Crystal WILKINSON!

Both Toni Morrison and Ernest Gaines are getting postage stamps in 2023!
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I'm looking forward to being in Jackson on Thursday! Come out and see me Jackson State U. and area folks.

And if y'all don't leave Maxwell alone. Let him be great.

This is Black lit history y'all. This anthology is/was fire. My face isn't on the flyer but I will certainly be there. I am looking forward to being in conversation with these writers I admire so much. Marita Golden. Author. Creative Writing Coach. and ✍🏾 Hurston/Wright Foundation for Black Writers changed my life.

Can we just talk about Erika Simpson for a minute? She is doing big things. This is just the beginning. Wait. Watch. But for now get The Best American Essays 2022 and read her esssy.❤❤

I cooked 10 pounds of mustard greens and froze them for the holidays this weekend. It was a meditation, a communion with the mothers. The cleaning, the chopping, the weight of the stockpot. My BFF said 'Girl, is there a wedding or something?' 🤣

My cousin: Daddy always said snakes hide beneath the leaves in the Fall
Me with rake I'm hand: $%^& them leaves 😵

She equated food with love, and she cooked with both a fury and a quiet joy (Crystal Wilkinson)

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Check out the author lineup at this year's #kentuckybookfestival ! DaMaris B. Hill, PhD Crystal WILKINSON Frank X Walker KY Humanities kybookfestival.org/lineup/