The 2022 Wilma Dykeman Stokely Memorial Lecture with author Kathleen Dean Moore and WUOT’s Chrissy Keuper will be held as a event and is free and open to the public. Moore is a writer, moral philosopher and environmental thought-leader who is devoted to the defense of the lovely, reeling world. She is the author of “Earth’s Wild Music: Celebrating and Defending the Songs of the Natural World” and “Bearing Witness: The Human-Rights Impacts of Fracking and Climate Change.” Her next book, “Take Heart: Encouragement for Earth’s Weary Lovers,” is scheduled to be released this fall. Keuper is news director at WUOT, Knoxville’s National Public Radio member station. From 2004 to 2015, she served as the station’s local host for Morning Edition and won multiple awards for her reporting and interviewing, as well as hosting WUOT’s monthly public affairs series, Dialogue.

The lecture is hosted by Friends of the Knox County Public Library and the John C. Hodges Society of the University of Tennessee Libraries. The lecture honors the late Wilma Dykeman Stokely (1920–2006), writer, speaker, teacher, historian, environmentalist, and longtime friend of the Knox County Public Library.