The Friends of the Knox County Public Library established the Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture in 2007 to honor the late writer, speaker, teacher, historian, environmentalist and friend of local libraries. Friends of the Knox County Public Library and the Library Society of the University of Tennessee have co-sponsored the lecture since 2014.

Speakers represent a wide range of backgrounds, experiences and work, but all have a deep connection to one or more of Stokely’s passions: Appalachia, the environment, and racial and gender equity.

2021 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture

2021: Wiley Cash & Frank X Walker

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Previous Lecture Guests

2020: Michael W. Twitty

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2019: Silas House

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2018: Nikki Giovanni

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2017: Amy Greene

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2016: Robert Morgan

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2015: Dom Flemons

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2014: Ron Rash

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