Sat, Jul 11
|Webinar
Welcome Table Talk - Parables and Provisions: Feeding the Soil and the Soul
with Shauna M. Morgan and Malika Booker. Moderated by Carmin Wong.
Time & Location
Jul 11, 2026, 11:00 AM CDT
Webinar
About the event
Join us for the next Welcome Table Talk - Parables and Provisions: Feeding the Soil and the Soul with Shauna M. Morgan and Malika Booker. Moderated by Carmin Wong.
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Shauna M. Morgan is a poet-scholar and associate professor of creative writing and Africana literature at the University of Kentucky. Her critical work has been published in Journal of Postcolonial Writing, South Atlantic Review, and elsewhere. Her poetry has appeared in A Gathering Together, Interviewing the Caribbean, A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, among other periodicals and anthologies. Her debut collection, Ground Provisions, was shortlisted for the 2026 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry. An urban gardener, Shauna tends a hopeful provision ground at her home in the East End Artists’ Village in Lexington, and she continues to explore the environmental and cultural linkages between her rural Jamaican…