Orders of Service
Past Event
Wednesday, October 16, 2024 12:00 PM EDT
Fenwick Library, Fenwick Reading Room, 2nd Floor
Willie Lee Kinard III’s debut poetry collection, Orders of Service, portrays the everyday lives of Black queer people living in the American South – underscoring the strong counterculture created by social media in a land of gospel traditionalism of the Bible Belt. Publisher’s Weekly says, “Drawing on a diverse array of mythological figures from African and Western traditions as well as Black- and Southern-inflected Christian ritual, Kinard’s poems form an intricate cosmology that transcends the personal to reflect on a close-knit, complex community.”
