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Join Kentucky author Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. as he reads from and discusses his Stonewall Honor Award-winning poetry collection, Gay Poems for Red States.
Willie Edward Taylor Carver Jr. is an advocate, the 2022 Kentucky Teacher of the Year, and the author of a bestselling collection of narrative poetry about his childhood growing up queer in Appalachia. Carver’s work exists at the intersection of queer identity, Appalachian identity, and the politics of innocence.
Willie holds an MFA in poetry at the University of Kentucky. He publishes and presents on the subjects of education, marginalization, and identity, and his story has been featured on ABC, CBS, PBS, NPR, The Washington Post, Le Monde, and Good Morning America. His creative work has been published in 100 Days in Appalachia, Appalachian Journal, Another Chicago Magazine, Southern Humanities Review, Smoky Blue Literary Magazine, Harbor Review, Untelling, Miracle Monocle, Good River Review, and Salvation South, where he is a feature poet of National Poetry Month.
His fragmented novel, Tore All to Pieces, comes out in Spring 2026.
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