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Table Topic: They Turned My Poems Into a Ballet – Everything I Learned About Building Alliances and Finding Intersections In a Polarized World

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Caroline Randall Williams

Writer, Educator, and Performance Artist

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Caroline Randall Williams is a multi-genre writer, educator, performance artist and amateur restauranteur here in Nashville. She is co-author of the NAACP Image Award-winning cookbook Soul Food Love, and curator of the All-African American Cookbook Store in Nashville’s Woolworth on 5th Restaurant. Her debut collection of poetry, Lucy Negro, Redux has been turned into a ballet by the Nashville Ballet -- Caroline performed her poetry as an integral member of the cast, all set to an original score by multiple time grammy nominee Rhiannon Giddens. Named by Southern Living as “One of the 50 People changing the South,” the Cave Canem fellow has been published and featured in multiple journals, essay collections and news outlets, including The Iowa Review, The Massachusetts Review, CherryBombe, Garden and Gun, Essence and the New York Times.