As Kentucky’s former poet laureate and recipient of national prizes for literary achievement, Wilkinson sparks a craving for her stories as much as her food. In the introduction to Wilkinson’s food ...

Don’t call it a cookbook. A meditation, maybe. An elegy of memory, loss, and taste. The spoken word poem of a Black Appalachian woman determined to keep her people at the center of her lyrical work.

Crystal Wilkinson is the author of the 2024 book, Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts. While she was in Columbia for the Unbound Book Festival, she visited KBIA’s Jessica Vaughn Martin and Nina Mukerjee ...

The former Kentucky Poet-Laureate Crystal Wilkinson's new book is both a family memoir and a cookbook. In 'Praisesong for the Kitchen Ghosts,' Crystal Wilkinson shares recipes, Black Appalachian ...

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Kentucky Poet Laureate Crystal Wilkinson has received a 2022 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work – Poetry. She won the honor for her latest book Perfect Black. On Twitter, Wilkinson said, ...