In this video, Joe Wilkins presents “Language, Memory, and Story” for the 2022 Wallace Stegner Lecture hosted by the Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston, Idaho. Wilkins, author of Every Sky at Home: Essays on Landscape and Family (Bison Books, 2026), is featured in “Literary MagNet” in the September/October 2026 issue of Poets & Writers Magazine.
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