bell hooks

bell hooks, an internationally renowned poet, author, feminist, professor, cultural critic and social activist, was known to many in Hopkinsville as Gloria Jean Watkins.

The discussion is planned at 11 a.m. Saturday at the Carnegie Library.
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The contest named for Hopkinsville native bell hooks had some 80 entries that will be compiled in a book available in a month or so.
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The Christian County Literacy Council received 80 entries for the contest.
hooks, who was born Gloria Jean Watkins, was selected for Kentucky Women Remembered along with six other women.
A conversation about belonging is set Saturday at Corner Coffeehouse, and a WKMS virtual book club meeting will be later in the month.
Writers of all ages are invited to submit works, including poetry, essays and short stories, by the Feb. 15 deadline.
Twenty-three years after the book was published, bell hooks' "All About Love" has remained on the New York Times Best Sellers list for 56 weeks.
All About Love
The unveiling occurred on the 70th anniversary of her birth in Hopkinsville as Gloria Jean Watkins.
"Memories offer us a world where there is no death, where we are sustained by rituals of regard and recollection," bell hooks wrote in "Belonging: A Culture of Place"
The painting by Hopkinsville artist Paula Gieseke honors the legacy of Gloria Jean Watkins, the feminist author known by her pen name bell hooks.
The mural is on the west wall of the Christian County Historical Society building at Ninth and Liberty streets.
The exhibit features the work of 54 artists from across the Commonwealth with their interpretation of the theme “Tell Us a Story.”