9:30 am
Poetry
STATE CAPITOL 204
presented by University of Mississippi
Office of the Provost
Poets unpack their tenderly wrought collections
of loss and memory, community, and isolation.
• C. Liegh McInnis (moderator)
• Leona Sevick – The Bamboo Wife
• Hannah V Warren – Slaughterhouse for Old Wives’ Tales
• A. H. Jerriod Avant – Muscadine
• Adam Clay – Circle Back
Maritime Madness
STATE CAPITOL 113
presented by Bethany & Lucien Smith;
The Perry / Posey Families
in Honor of Alice Perry
Captains and castaways are studied in these
historical accounts with a real cast of characters
as riveting and mercurial as the sea they sail.
• Speaker Pro Tempore Manly Barton (moderator)
• Eric Jay Dolin – Left for Dead: Shipwreck, Treachery,
and Survival at the Edge of the World
• Hampton Sides – The Wide Wide Sea: Imperial Ambition,
First Contact and the Fateful Final Voyage of Captain James Cook
Speculative Fiction
STATE CAPITOL 201 H
presented by Charles Brasfield Grant IV
Imagined versions of our past and future are posed
in these novels, from fictitious communities gone wrong
to dystopian extensions of our current reality.
• Jerid P. Woods (moderator)
• Nicola Yoon – One of Our Kind
• Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah – Chain Gang All-Stars
• Phillip B. Williams – Ours
• Cebo Campbell – Sky Full of Elephants
African American History
C-SPAN/OLD SUPREME COURT
presented by Hope Credit Union;
Mississippi Department of Archives
& History
coverage provided by C-SPAN
room by BarbourHurst
Join these authors as they examine the economic
exploitation, political resistance, and powerful narratives
that have shaped African American history,
showcasing the resilience and triumphs of a people
in the face of oppression and systemic challenges.
• Michael Morris (moderator)
• Jasmine L. Holmes – Yonder Come Day:
Exploring the Collective Witness of the Formerly Enslaved
• Andrew W. Kahrl – The Black Tax:
150 Years of Theft, Exploitation, and Dispossession in America
• Mark Whitaker – Saying It Loud: 1966—The Year Black Power
Challenged the Civil Rights Movement
Music
STATE CAPITOL 201 A
presented by Ginnie & Luther Munford;
Louisa Dixon & Jerry Johnson
Studies of Blues artists help to highlight
the true importance of the genre in the furthering
of American music and to celebrate the lives of the
musicians who started it all.
• Mississippi Senator John Horhn (moderator)
• Ben Wynne – A Hound Dog Tale: Big Mama, Elvis,
and the Song That Changed Everything
• Margo Cooper – Deep Inside the Blues:
Photographs and Interviews