HomeMy WebLinkAboutAgenda - 12-07-2020; Special Presentation – Jaki Shelton Green Special Presentation — Jaki Shelton Green
Jaki Shelton Green, ninth Poet Laureate of North Carolina is the first African American
and third woman to be appointed as the North Carolina Poet Laureate. She is a 2019
Academy of American Poet Laureate Fellow, 2014 NC Literary Hall of Fame Inductee,
2009 NC Piedmont Laureate appointment, 2003 recipient of the North Carolina Award
for Literature. Jaki Shelton Green teaches Documentary Poetry at Duke University
Center for Documentary Studies and has been named the 2021 Frank B. Hanes Writer
in Residence at UNC Chapel Hill. Her publications include: Dead on Arrival, Masks,
Dead on Arrival and New Poems, Conjure Blues, singing a tree into dance, breath of the
song, Feeding the Light, i want to undie you. On Juneteenth 2020, she released her first
LP, poetry album, The River Speaks of Thirst, produced by Soul City Sounds and
Clearly Records. Jaki Shelton Green is the owner of SistaWRITE providing writing
retreats for women writers in Sedona Arizona, Martha's Vineyard, Ocracoke North
Carolina, Northern Morocco, and Tullamore Ireland.